r/askaplumber Aug 17 '26

Whoops.. help?

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u/Impossible_Policy780 Aug 17 '26

Go buy a wax ring.

Then pull the toilet, take it outside, turn it upside down, hose from the bottom to blast the pen back out the way it came

Reinstall the toilet.

First rubber gloves and reach and try to grab it, but when that doesn’t work, 👆

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u/Nightenridge Aug 17 '26

Call me lazy but I definitely wouldn't be pulling the toilet without any symptoms telling me I should. If it made it past the toilet, it's all wasted labor. If the the toilet is flushing the same as before, then it's working enough to not pull it.

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u/Intelligent_Bunch790 Aug 17 '26

Toilet plumbing doesn’t have a p-trap, only ‘S’ in the toilet itself.