It depends on the design of the toilet, and how much water it dumps into the bowl at each flush. Some toilet designs have a tank with a higher capacity than the bowl, so if it gets clogged then it’ll overflow. Pro tip: know where your toilet’s shutoff valve is, it’s usually on the wall just under the tank. If it looks like the toilet is about to overflow, just turn that valve off and you can avoid the mess.
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protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
as someone who has clogged toilets many times, how do toilets overflow? that never occurs to me, I just stop flushing it, when it is near overflowing and like I never had issues
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
wait, I think I just realized a thing, on the toilets here I need to hold a button to flush, it stops flushing when it is not being pressed
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
How do you stop it from flushing once flushed?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I guess i just discovered something very important to this “shit talk” toilets here usually have the actuation style of hold button instead of what seems to be the normal press and forget in the USA
stankmut@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Most toilets I’ve used don’t fill the bowl with enough water on a single flush to overflow. You can adjust the chain (assuming not an office toilet) if it’s flushing for too long.
The only times I’ve overflowed a toilet I was as a kid, not realizing that trying to flush again might make the problem worse.
mapu@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
It’s a bit of a gamble. Sometimes flushing a second time can add just enough weight (and therefore pressure) to dislodge the clog and fix the problem. I assume that’s what those people are trying to do
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 hours ago
Americans fill the bowl all the way