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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teen accidentally flushed a retainer.  Toilet worked ago for a while but started to drain very slowly.  The retainer was caught where the toilet mounted to the floor and was keeping stuff from going down the drain.[/quote]

So here's how plumbing works: There is a series of pipes that go from your toilet to the sewage treatment plant. The one under your toilet is 3" or 4" in diameter, and from that point they never get smaller, they only get bigger, the last one might be 24".  The exit from the toilet is about 2" in diameter. So if something can pass through that opening, it can pass through every other pipe along the way. This is a deliberate design.

This is not to say that it's impossible to clog a drain, it happens, something can pass through in one orientation and then get turned and get stuck. But the general rule is that if something can get through that opening it won't cause problems. [/quote]

Yes, ideally. But if you have recurring tree roots or other issues, you can get a clog. We had sewage backing up in our basement from the drain in the floor. (So gross!) The plumber ran 50 feet of snake before he hit something.[/quote]

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