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Edited by eeriearcade: 7/23/2022 5:21:21 PM
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Vote: Reverse Flush - True or Not True?

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If you accidentally install a component in a toilet flush the wrong way round, can this cause a reverse flush? In other words, would all of the dirty fly back out of the toilet? [spoiler]*whispers* It was just a joke. I didn’t realise people would take it seriously and start offering me plumbing advice.[/spoiler]
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  • Ferguson the Stradivarius of toilets, my dad could play it like my violin – Al Bundy

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    SparkleGuy
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    Depends on if the toilet is in the south or north hemisphere 😂

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  • Ah yes, the best Flash villain, The Reverse Flush.

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  • Homemade bidet!

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      SuperJohnJohn
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      Probably not. But I’m not a plumber

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      • In residential buildings, the water is all gravity fed. In many commercial buildings the water is direct from a pressurized line (no water tank above the toilet), but still functions on gravity once the water is released. So if you did install some device to reverse the flow, you would have to have a receiving tank for all the water and contents to go into, then force it back up into the toilet bowl with some manner of pressurized lift system, which would all be very elaborate, costly, time consuming, and quite a stupid thing to do honestly.

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        • Get a plumber.

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          • Edited by Sumpig-2: 7/23/2022 11:43:11 AM
            The water comes from the tank and goes down into the bowl through a drain that leads to the top edges of the bowl plus the hole in the bottom that jets some water during the flush. The only pump-like machinery is stored in/under the tank somewhere. [spoiler]pulling down the handle just unstops the drain, letting the water down into the bowl. The pump just puts water in the tank until it reaches the top of that other tube in there[/spoiler] There's nothing in the actual bowl or underneath. Only clogs or something like that will overflow your loo. This is what I understand after taking a look at the tank and flushing it. Actually pretty genius. [spoiler]turns out, that hole in the bottom that jets out water is very important for flush power, otherwise everything just slowly swirls down as you nearly overflow the toilet. If the water from the hole isn't going so strong, something is probably blocking it, so get something in there and push around till it works. [/spoiler] [b]TL;DR[/b] you should read, but basically, there is no pump where the dirty water goes. So there's no way to pump the dirty water back up, only clogs and the like. [i]at least that is my understanding. I'm no plumber but it makes sense.[/i] I don't know how bidets work. I'm not European.

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