A half dozen stockpots full of very hot water have cleared out the toilet issue. For now.

I feel so handy. But now it’s well past time to focus my handiness on cleaning the bathroom.

Part of the reason this is now so necessary is that the old plunger, the cheap ‘cereal bowl’ type, was both useless and messy when it came to this tougher clog. So it’s getting pitched. If If it turns out that I absolutely need one down the line, I will spend at little more on the kind that fits down into the bottom of the bowl snugly.

‘Progress’.