Is it ok to flush baby wipes down the toilet?

I never thought twice about flushing wipes down the toilet, but recently someone told me that it will eventually cause problems with the plumbing. Is this true? I know they make "flushable" wipes, but I'm wondering how bad it is to use regular wipes. I haven't had any problems until now with the toilet getting clogged up. Do you flush wipes down the toilet? (Sorry, I know this is a funny subject matter to be discussing... Embarassed

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Active Poster Joined: Jun 07 2010 Posts: 83

Don't flush them! You will clog the pipes!!

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 08 2010 Posts: 2534

NO! (unless you want to give the local plumber some parnassa) They will clog up your sewer pipes and my sister used those "flushable" wipes and had a backup and the plumber told her they were to blame.
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Silver Member Joined: Nov 08 2009 Posts: 732

The local plumber won't even come. You will need the sewer guys to unclog the sewers...

Gold Member Joined: Dec 21 2008 Age: 27 Posts: 1519

Don't do it, even the flushables make problems. Somebody once had to do a major clean-up job that cost them thousands of dollars!

It's happened to us so often that we are on a first name basis with the plumber. Whenever the kids see Alan arriving, they start saying. "I didn't flush any wipes!" Then he extracts globs of soaking wet stretched out wipes from the pipes. Then we extract globs of money.
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Diamond Member Joined: Jan 24 2010 Posts: 3399

Just hope you don't have a septic tank

Ok, we'll definitely stop flushing them...

I hope we haven't done any damage until now!!

Posted: Wed, Jan 19 2011, 10:20 pm Post subject:

not a good idea- and if you have tree roots in your line to the street (assuming you live in a house) it can be even worse

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Don't flush even flushable wipes. Unless you want a HUGE flood and even bigger bills fixing that.
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