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Rob_Fla · RV-Dreams Family Member

Bubbling toilet

DBEANZ · RV-Dreams Family Member

Has anyone ever had their toilet bubble up when flushing? This happened for the first time yesterday. DH thinks it might be gas build up... Anyone else had this happen before? BTW, we emptied the tank today and it's gone...

RN on the road · RV-Dreams Family Member

My wife dumped some dish soap down the tank in an effort to get what the manufacturer called "that fresh mountain scent" into the tank.....boy did that bubble, and foam, and bubble and foam.

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

on some units the vent enters from the side....if the tank is close to full it will purge the gas up thru the bowl when you open the valve.

Bob and Cheri · RV-Dreams Family Member

The bubbling is an indication that the Black Tank is full.

GENECOP · RV-Dreams Family Member

Check vent for blockage.....

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

You need a Plumber's snake, available at a hardware store like Ace, Home Depot or Lowes.

I had to change the link since the link kept getting truncated. Now I show one at Amazon instead of a Wikipedia link.
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bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo wrote:
bjoyce wrote:
You need a Plumber's snake, available at a hardware store like Ace, Home Depot or Lowes.

Bill,
Your link went to a Wikipedia entry for "plumber." Did you mean for the plumber's snake link to go to something like this?
Terry

I think I hit an Activeboard feature/bug. The original link was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber's_snake but would lose the "'s_snake" on save.

Edit: It did it again!!!!!!!!!

Edit: I had to replace the apostrophe with "%27" to make it work.

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DBEANZ · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks for the replies. Our tank is empty so it's not because it's full. We'll check on the vent and see if we can find if that is the culprit. When looking down into the hole while flushing it appears to have some TP visible. How can you plunge in a RV??? confuse

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

I'm a little confused...you said the toilet was bubbling which is an indicator of a full black tank but then you dumped it and it's gone. Wouldn't that tell you the full tank was the culprit?

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

bjoyce wrote:
You need a Plumber's snake, available at a hardware store like Ace, Home Depot or Lowes.

Bill,

Your link went to a Wikipedia entry for "plumber." Did you mean for the plumber's snake link to go to something like this?

Terry

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Depending on what you mean as to being able to see toilet paper down there after you have dumped.....if it looks to be stacked up getting close to the bowl entrance you could have developed "The Cone of Death" also known in English Terms as a large pile of..%#@t......

if this is the case flood your black full of water or purchase a tank rinsing wand and proceed to break it down so it will exit the tank....

if you dont own a tank rinsing wand and your tank does not have one built in....I would deeply suggest one and use it at least monthly

el Rojo and Pam · RV-Dreams Family Member

Another trick. We have found filling a five gallon bucket 2/3's full of fresh water and pouring in the toilet bowl with the valve open creates enough force to wash down "the cone of death" lol. And having a empty 5 gallon bucket comes in handy around camp too!.