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ErdtreeSimp t1_j8kd6kh wrote

As a fyi you can flush with any water. You can literally use a bottle of water it will work. I once had to water the plants for a friend in their home (only with rain water). And I really needed to go lol but they actually turned off the water. So I had to use the good rain water

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ackermann t1_j8klslo wrote

Yup, just dump a bucket of water directly in the toilet bowl. If it’s enough (about a gallon), and you dump it in fast enough, it will flush.

Or, you can remove the tank lid and pour it in there too, but that’s not necessary.

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VoltaicSketchyTeapot t1_j8l24w5 wrote

We have a water leak at work and the water is shut off. We have a lot of 5 gallon bottles of water, so we can flush the toilets. However, the water doesn't pour out of the bottle fast enough to flush the toilet. I've successfully done a bucket flush in the same toilet when we had a tank refilling problem, so I would claim to know what I'm doing.

Filling the tank is the only way to get enough pressure to flush using a 5 gallon water bottle.

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Lknate t1_j8lfo1m wrote

I have so many questions.... However, I'll make a suggestion instead. Go to the hardware store and buy a couple of buckets to fill instead of the bottles. Should be able to get a few flushes out per bucket and it will be easier. The biggest question I have is why has this water leak not been repaired in so long that there is an alternative toilet flushing protocol. Most places would just ask a neighboring business for access to their restrooms if it was only going to be a day or two.

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randomgrunt1 t1_j8nnmus wrote

Water speed doesn't matter with flushing a toilet. When it reaches a high enough water level, the pressure difference auto flushes.

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Alizaea t1_j8l8fdc wrote

How are you to fill a bucket of the water is off?

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gerhudire t1_j8ldfz6 wrote

Bucket outside + heavy rain = a bucket full of rain water.

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HeywoodPeace t1_j8mh11d wrote

Katie Couric is not happy with this form of measurement being used to detail a turd

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mericton t1_j8ngl1z wrote

He said that the landlord cut the water so i dont think the problem was how to get it down

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trshtehdsh t1_j8ln0ny wrote

Ok but if the water is turned off you can't really run water for adding to the bowl, can you?

But if I were in OPs situation I'd be using any available liquid. Gatorade, milk, popping cans of soda, microwaving the ice cubes, whatever was around that could be reasonably liquified. Make a Walmart run and grab some gallon jugs. Whatever it took man.

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wannabejoanie t1_j8l6cf7 wrote

Yuuuup. Water heater went out, we had to buy a whole lot of gallons of water to flush the toilet till it was replaced. Pain in the ass, but functional.

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klm2709 t1_j8m77c2 wrote

It's enough to pour the water in the bowl, not the bowels.

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solblurgh t1_j8m5epp wrote

Dasani is a good choice. To flush your poop and wash your ass

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TheMace808 t1_j8ngkj3 wrote

To be fair, the water was off in an apartment, so unless they too collected rain water there wouldn’t be water to flush

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MyNameIsRay t1_j8nv3oi wrote

I grew up in an old farmhouse with well water, and any time we had a big storm and lost power, we'd also lose water.

Before storms hit, we'd scrub the bathtubs clean and fill them to the brim with water.

We had a bucket that held just enough water to make the toilet flush if you dumped it in, and a tub was at least a week worth of flushing #2's.

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