Why is it that some wipes are flushable and some are not? Especially when some that ‘are’ feel so similar to some that ‘aren’t’.
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Some wipes are “flushable” because you probably have reasonably large (2 or 3 inch) drain lines that go into a public sewer. The wipes will really only get stuck if something else starts to block the pipe and they get caught up. Wipes become “unflushable” when you need to pump sewage uphill for example if you have a bathroom in your basement. In that case you’d have an ejector pump that would pump the sewage up to the drain line. Wipes tend to get caught in the impeller jamming it up and then you have sewage flooding your basement. It has little to do with the actual wipe, it’s more in the plumbing. Hence the mixed messages. For some people flushing wipes will work just fine. For others it’ll be a pricey restoration bill.
Source am plumber(apprentice), cleaned wipes out of a shit pit just last week
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