daugen wrote:
man I'm getting the shivers reading this, as my sick wife has been flushing these things down the toilet like crazy recently. We have city water and good pressure, and I ask her to always flush at least twice.
Go rent a drain cleaner and snake your line out to the street. That is the best way of knowing for sure that your line is clear.
We used those wipes in complete moderation, say, no more than two per day, and ended up with $30K worth of poopy in our basement. When I snaked my line, I pulled out about three big hunks of those wipes, each roughly the size of a wet raccoon. Probably several hundred of those wipes in all. Keep in mind, my sewer line is nothing unusual; just a straight shot out to the main, and a relatively new home, so no major root infestation or anything disruptive to the line.
I sure learned my lesson. Indeed, they are flushable, but I'm here to tell you that they don't make it all the way out to the street.
After hearing all these other stories, I'm surprised that a class-action lawsuit hasn't taken place because I'm surely not the only one who ruined a fully finished basement because of those wipes.
I'm now so anal about it (forgive the pun) that I purchased my own drain cleaner and I snake the drain every other month just as a preventative measure. If you think carpeting is heavy, try hauling it out of the basement soaked in poopy water.