Grout rinse water down the toilet

[div]

I recently had a tile contractor redo some of my bathroom tiles and he dumped about half a bucket of the grout rinse water down my toilet. He did that before I could stop him, but now I'm worried I'm going to have drain clog issues. I poured down a couple of buckets of water down the toilet immediately and flushed it 5-6 times. I don't see any sediments or have any back up issues yet. The toilet seems to get flushed normally at the usual speed. How long should I watch out for issues? Is there anything else I can do to make sure this doesn't cause a bigger problem?

 

[Terry]

I don't think there is anything you can do now. Hopefully it was just water with a little bit of dirt with it.
I was in a high rise in Bellevue, the 20th floor, and the new tile counters were rinsed down the kitchen sink disposer. Needless to say, it did a number on the disposer.
Another time I installed a new tub in a highrise in Seattle, and coming back to do the trim, the tile guy had dumped his grout bucket down the tub drain. That didn't work well after that either.

On a job near Lake Sammamish I pulled a toilet and found that the tile guy had laid pieces of tile in the toilet drain. There is no way those sizes of tile could have passed through the toilet trapway. Just strange stuff.

 

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[div]

Thanks for the prompt response Terry! Are there any warning signs I should watch out for over the next few days? Any signs that would warrant me to call a plumber immediately?

 

[hj]

Unfortunately, grout is very heavy and the chances of water keeping it moving very far is fairly remote. But if it was soupy enough it may be laying in a smooth layer that stuff will flow over. I had a customer whose 3" line was filled with grout. We replaced the section through the bathroom, but a week later the section on the lower level backed up because it was full also.

 

[div]

This was not the grout mixture. It was only the water that was used to wash the sponge after wiping up the tiles. So I'm assuming its only some sand from the grout and not as bad as grout itself. I guess I can only watch out for slow drains or backup in any of our drain lines and call a plumber at the first sight of an issue.

 

[Terry]

Thanks for the prompt response Terry! Are there any warning signs I should watch out for over the next few days? Any signs that would warrant me to call a plumber immediately?

If it was just dirty water, you should be fine. It was dumb, but you should survive. You were there to flush things through before anything dried.