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How to Unclog a Toilet: The Family Handyman

If the toilet plunger won’t open the drain, reach for a toilet snake. A drain toilet snake is a long wire coil with a corkscrew-like tip that you feed into your pipes until it encounters the clog. Learning how to snake a toilet begins by turning the snake clockwise, so that the tip screws into or through the clog and breaks it up.