SG1976 Heavy Duty Force Cup Rubber Toilet Plunger with a Long Wooden Handle to Fix Clogged Toilets and Drains

If you have a newer toilet, like a Kohler low-profile, it will probably have a small hole in the bowl. This plunger is so soft that one of two things kept happening: either it folds upward over itself, which means you have to use your hands or whatever to unfold it back down; or it sort of “tacos” into the hole and splashes back all over you.On the plus side, rubber hardens as it ages and it hardens, but also gets brittle…so maybe after a few years of fine aging in the cellar this will be a useful plunger. Also you could try to "vulcanize" it by putting the plunger into really hot water for a few moments. Don't pour boiling hot water into your toilet though--you can cause the cold porcelain to shatter.What to do in the meantime? If you’ve got a paper clog that lets the water slowly leak down until the bowl is almost completely empty leaving a much lower water level than usual: take dishwasher detergent and pour a LOT of it into the toilet bowl. Then use your shower head (or a bucket) to spray fairly hot water into the bowl. Let that marinate for a little while and then try flushing. Worked great for me and even blasting the shower spray into the toilet there was less water splashed on the floor than a single splash-back from this stupid plunger.If you have a full to the top bowl that doesn’t go down after about 10 minutes (or however long you can stand to wait) then you’re going to have to buy a different, firmer plunger that is either: bigger and won’t fold down into the hole; or smaller and fits snugly inside the hole; or a 3’ toilet auger/snake.P.S. Don't stick it on the door of someone's car, because it will leave an outward dent when you pull it off...it was really funny though.

Suction power isn’t as good because the material is too flimsy - not thick or hard enough. Doesn’t have to be too hard! Just a little bit harder than it is now. It took me several times to get the plunger positioned & be able to press into the toilet neck so I could get proper suction & get the much needed result.

This model, with its red cup and plain wood handle, is the classic "plumber's helper" that's been unclogging toilet bowls everywhere, regardless of the manufacturer, since well before I was born (i.e., many years ago). This SG1976 heavy duty model appears to be well made of excellent materials, and I can attest that it does the job quickly, unstopping even the most troublesome clogged toilet. I know, as my American Standard toilets clog up if you look a them sideways! So I purposely clogged up one of them with a Big Wad of TP, just as a test of this manufacturer's claim of a HD product. Supply Guru's heavy duty plunger made short work of my over-done clog. Proof positive that this was the perfect tool for the job. If you need a new plunger--my two old ones lasted 13 years!--forget all the other fancy plungers listed here at Amazon and just buy this classic. It's tried and true. In fact, just replace all your old toilet plungers now with this model, just as I did. Gone on...take the plunge...

A classic. One of those things that doesn't need improving on. It's already perfect. Thanks to my high fiber diet I get a chance to use this pipe-buster fairly often. That, and I have two teenage boys who can make a large pizza disappear in seconds, only to rebirth it hours later in a more compact form that doesn't like to flow where it needs to go. This things comes to the rescue every time. Hair in the tub drain? Well, not often, since there's no girls in the house, but after we give our puppers a good scrubbing (he like to shed when wet), this thing does the job and clears out the drains. Using this plunger reminds me of my childhood. It's the same one my dad had, and his dad before him. This thing can take on the plumbing challenges of a large family of Iowa farm folk, I'm sure it can do the job for you!

What’s to know. Simple tool to unclog toilets. Works as advertised.

I have a toilet that seems to clog on a fairly regular basis so an effective, working plunger is a must in our house. I ordered this plunger after our old one began developing cracks in the rubber.I will say that I had difficulty getting this new plunger to work the very first time I used it. A friend told me to soak the plunger in hot water to heat up the rubber and after I did that it worked like a charm. Apparently it just needed to be broken in a bit.I use it frequently and it is still doing the job like a champ after 2 months. Would buy again.

The head of the plunger was not very big and the rubber was too flimsy, not sturdy enough.

This plunger is the real thing, not the useless black stuff sold at the store that never unclogs anything. The design of the rubber head is what makes possible for it to stick to the toilet to pump the water or whatever you are trying to pump. The only thing I didn't like was having to pay 7 and cents for it for ordering from Amazon. I looked for this type of plunger at the stores with no success (only to find out later that they sell it at the dollar store). But it was still worth it because it was an emergency and was really needed. To date, it still works for us.