Charlie: Tom and Charles in Spring, they both have a low flow toilet problem. Tom, can’t seem to get his brush down, because apparently the area inside there where he cleans it is smaller. He says he wants to get the brush down to clean it.
Tom: Mm-hmm (affirmative),
Charlie: He’s wondering if you have advice on how to do that.
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Tom: Get a smaller brush.
Charlie: Woo.
Tom: I’m sorry, I mean…
Charlie: This is … ladies and gentlemen …
Tom: You got a cleaning place, they have all kinds of brushes. I got one with my turkey baster the other day, it’s a little tiny brush.
Charlie: Alright, Charles in Spring says, “I’ve heard on your program a simple solution for slow flushing, low flow toilets.” He says he got an old one here, but can’t remember, something about build up on them, and you have a simple solution for fixing that.
Tom: I think what he’s getting at is, you can have a very old toilet that gets calcified.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: If you want to try to fix them, my suggestion is if it’s that old and it’s giving you that much trouble, just get a new toilet. The new toilets, they are not expensive, you can have one put in pretty easily. Then just don’t deal with it, but if you want to put a half a gallon of vinegar in the tank, cause it’s an acid.
Charlie: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Tom: It has to eat up the hard water deposits that are all up inside those little ports up underneath the rim.
Charlie: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Tom: If you want to go around with even the smallest brush in the world which is a pipe cleaner, and go around …
Charlie: Is that what you do to your kid to punish them?
Tom: (laughs) Yeah, you go there …
Charlie: Take this pipe cleaner and go clean the toilet.
Tom: … and the small toothbrush.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: Okay.
Charlie: But not their toothbrush.
Tom: (laughs) No.
Charlie: We don’t need CPS showing up at the front door.
Tom: Anyway, use a pipe cleaner or something to stick up in all those little holes around there, and see if you can knock some of that stuff loose. The last little hole you have to get into for a lot of them …
Charlie: Yes. (laughs)
Tom: You know the little tiny hole at the bottom of some of the old toilets, where you had a little flush action going? Those things get all calcified down in there, and that might be where that turkey baster brush you were just talking about might work very well.
Charlie: (laughs)
Tom: Right down in there, but you can see where I’m going. Then flush the vinegar through a few times, and do it. I think it’s easier to get a new toilet, because they get calcified. It’s not necessarily a low flow, it can be any old toilet that gets calcified.