Toilet Part or something else?

[Mike33]

Does anyone know if this white styrofoam looking thing is a normal part in a toilet?


picture taken with scope camera down toilet bowl

My toilet is being inconsistent sometimes it flushes normal other times it takes ~5min for the water to drain. I pulled the toilet off and ran water down the drain with no issues. I stuck a camera down the toilet and I get the attached picture. When I use a toilet auger it goes through fine.

Here is another picture of the item when I run the scope up the bottom of the toilet.

 

[Mike33]

Another way to ask my question is that when you stick a scope down a toilet should the porcelain pipe me completely smooth all the way to the main drain or are there parts along the way?

 

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[Reach4]

It looks like a hunk of styrofoam or some such. A thin auger could poke right through that without disintegrating the piece, right?

 

[hj]

If it is in the bowl, someone dropped it in and then flushed it.

 

[Mike33]

The auger must just be pushing past the piece then. Any other ideas on what i could use to get it unstuck?

I am assuming by what HJ said that a toilet has only one porcelain pipe, it doesn't typically have any other connections to the tank other than the one where water comes into the bowl from under the rim?

Thanks

 

[Mike33]

It looks like a hunk of styrofoam or some such. A thin auger could poke right through that without disintegrating the piece, right?

By thin auger do you mean a toilet auger or one of the smaller sink type ones?

 

[Terry]

You many need to pull the bowl and auger from the bottom, pushing the item back the way it came in.

 

[Jadnashua]

You can buy various toilet augers...they come with different sized heads. The less expensive versions tend to have a smaller head, and often can't catch on everything to clean it out.