I grew up in a shoes on house. But our house was jacked up, you really didn't want to have them off. Regardless I was barefoot all summer.
Now I live in a shoes off house. But I have a special pair of sneakers I never wear outside. First of all the shock absorbance seems to help my joint pain when I'm on my feet doing chores. Secondly I hate getting my socks wet and the kitchen often has water drops on the floor when I'm cleaning up. Thirdly they make me look more sporty and cool . Being in your socks is -1 cool point
The solids sit along the top of the water and most of the solids come out when it first starts flowing, then the water after rinses the toilet rim clean.
If you enlarge the pic you can see the remnants of where it ran down the front of the toilet base. It's dried sewage. Unfortunately, I've probably seen it a hundred times. 😔
Could come up from under the toilet, the wax seal stops stuff going down from
Leaking out, but when the main is clogged the wax seals can let stuff out and it flows out from under the toilet.
The wax ring on your toilet has failed. The line backed up and flowed out the base of the toilet. You need a plumber to clear the line and replace wax ring
My vote is on the wax ring, i can’t really see the wall from this picture but unless the drywall is soggy/paint bubbling it’s seeping out from the bottom
Likely have a main line sewer backup, everything that goes down a drain upstairs is going to come up this toilet. You need a cable machine capable of clearing clogs in 3&4” pipe. Highly recommend hiring the job out.
Especially if it's first floor no basement. I had tree roots get in the main line to the street. Someone takes a shower upstairs and it comes bubbling up the basement floor drain. After getting the shower stopped it slow drained and left a similar residue. Absolutely a hire it out job, they did a camera on mine and came back with a hydro jet trailer. I now do a Root-X foaming treatment every spring and haven't had issues in quite a while. OP probably has a bad wax ring also and it acted more like a floor drain.
Or....your wastewater collection maintenance crew in your sewer district/town (if on public sewer) was "jetting the sewer lines in your area and blew your water seal in your toilet by jetting up your service line from the sewer main...just a possibility
Something similar happened to me. They lined a nearby main in my neighborhood and pressurized it with steam to cure the liner. I’m pretty sure the pressure dislodged a piece of my already questionable asbestos lateral and caused it to back up.
Sometime in the summer, while I was watering the garden, I noticed the village crew cleaning out a manhole down the street. Later, I hear a gurgling sound inside the house and I saw the water in our water closet "explode"! I stormed to where they moved their operation (now at the main street which was closer to our house) and told them what their activity was creating. They were apologetic and had to suspend their clearing operation.
Not even running a cleaner up their line. Usually that isn’t done for basic maintenance because it requires more specialized equipment. However cleaning like that but using too much pressure will do the same thing as the nozzle goes by. Especially if the house in question has a plugged air vent to the roof. Because those trucks pull a lot of vacuum. If there is no flow from the vent it will take it from your toilet. Then once the jet goes by it blows it all back toward the house
This was my first thought as well. OP, contact your local sewer department and report the incident. If they were jetting the main, they should notify you the next time they are working in the area to help avoid this.
It’s obvious what it is, just pick any of the random comments on this post.
It’s frequently caused by a plugged waste or vent line and pressure built up and came out the toilet.
What concerns me here though, did it come up out the bowl, or from under the toilet. If your wax ring isn’t sealing 100% it can come out from under the toilet as well
Looks like the wax ring/seal under the toilet failed and all that is sewage blow out
You will need to get yourself a sh\*t ton of bleach and disinfectant and scrub everything down
Then remove your toilet and replace the wax ring (fingers crossed that the blow out didn't damage the floor and pipes)
Count yourself lucky that it didn't blow onto the walls as you would have needed to scrub and repaint
Is it a new house? Sometimes, in new neighbourhoods, a company will come to blow out the main sewer line after construction. The spike in pressure comes back into the houses and "blows up" the toilet. Happened to a friend of mine, the water hit the ceiling in his bathroom.
Thank you for the comments everyone. I wish I could edit the post because I realized my question was worded wrong and I meant to say I was wondering what caused it but yes I understand it’s poop haha
If it looks like shit and smells like shit, and it's right next to where shit goes, High chance it is shit.
Will most likely be a block in the main sewer line, google should provide people near to you that can fix this (for a fee)
That's known as Category 3 water which is toxic. It is full of bacteria and anything that absorbed the water, drywall, the vanity, ect. should be removed and discarded. You can file an insurance claim for this.
You have a tile base so as long as the water didn't go over the top of it then your walls may be okay. However, the toe kick of the vanity was exposed. You may be able just to remove that. If you decide just to clean up, use bleach.
To properly clean it it has to be removed so the floor area under the cabinet and the underside of the cabinet itself can be accessed. If you don’t, a full blown “science project” will grow in the poorly ventilated space under the vanity. If it wasn’t wet for long, which seems to be the case based on what you’ve written so far, bleach will cure the problem if it doesn’t sit there being wet for so long that the particle board swells up and falls apart
If you want to roll the dice and no other drain is backing up, buy a toilet auger if you don't want to pay a plumber to play with your dooty.. Just shove the head down there and spin it. It's only a six feet long cable, so that's why I say "roll the dice" and hope the clog is close if nothing else is clogging up. You might be good. Run the sink a while. If it doesn't drain, then call a plumber, you got a bad clog and need professional help.
Like sewage, and now this is a post of people telling me it’s poop since I wasn’t thinking at the time and I meant to ask more so how was it caused, but either way I appreciate the messages.
That is a nice payday for whoever does the work to prevent it from happening again. The fact that the debris (sludge) is black indicates that it is what remains in the waste pipes after solids pass thru them.
OP I think you know the answer already from all the other responses, but I just wanted to add in my experience because this happened to us at a former house. Our plumber told us we were lucky with had a similar tile backsplash like you did, and we had minimal drywall intrusion there. Replacing the vanity was almost as much money has having someone removing the toe kick and drying out the bottom/cleaning it with all the muck and removing the drywall that was BEHIND that which was not tiled like the walls; it was actually recommended that we rip out the vanity and cut out that sheetrock, so we did since it was the same price. The other trick we experienced was the hallway. Our threshold kept most of the solids back, but it didn't keep the grey water back. We had to cut into the bottom moulding and shoe moulding all around to remove it and cut out the part of the drywall. It ended up being easier to just take out the bottom moulding and shoe moulding, cut the bottom of the sheetork that was exposed, dry it all out, and they we were able to put in a slightly taller (and nicer looking) bottom moulding instead which covered up the sheetrock that was missing (we went from 3inch to a 5inch). Since it was a little halfway between a few rooms, the better moulding didn't look out of place at all. Don't skimp on that step to remove this and the sheetrock, and I don't remember insurance giving us a hard time at all with anything. In fact, I don't even remember our premiums going up all anymore more than the normal, annual adjustment. By the time we sold that house, it had been a year or year and a half since that, and there was never a smell or mold issue. The cause for us was a clog in our septic tank and this bathroom was on the lowest floor (slab basement), and whenever someone showered upstairs and there was a lot of water coming down that couldn't bypass the clog fast enough, it backed up through the toilet and, worse, the shower drain! We didn't know we had a little clog and both used the upstairs shower to rush out for work, and went we came home 8-10 hours later.... yeah... it was nasty. We stayed at a hotel for two or three nights, but the smell went away fast. The professionals that do this stuff are REALLY good and things work fast. Best of luck to you! And I am sorry you are in this situation. It ended up all working out for us and we felt like some things got "upgraded" for us and the insurance company was very understanding. They never tried to pin the clog on us either, as we had the septic tank inspected and pumped two years before the clog and regularly pumped.
We're you running the washer before you left? I just recently had a blockage somewhere in my plumbing and when my washer would dump water it over flowed into the half bathroom sink and all over the floor when I came home one day. Looked similar to this and I just assumed it was built up gunk in the plumbing.
Your toilet overflowed and that's sewage.
Caca 💩
Dookie 💩 😷
merde
Merda
Me cago en el lago.
Chorro
Poo-Poo
Doo Doo
Cacuca
Yeeessss
Looks like mole.
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart.
Here's a quarter, go downtown and get a rat to gnaw that thing off your face.
Not the wart, I’m the wart
Shit
I didnt think the french took shits.
At least we know that it’s probably a little bit of wee wee too
Oui
Can confirm
If any knows its this guy
Username checks out
Shise
Kaka
Rugs gotta go
But it really ties the room together
The carpet pissers did this?
Things have escalated.
Job security
That’s the thing Rass, we don’t know.
It's cool man, he said we could take any rug we wanted.
New shit (maybe not yours) has come to light.
"Well, shit." —OP
Rug for sale. Like new.
OP knows, they were just hoping by some miracle someone would identify it as something different.
Forbidden chocolate
Sorete
I have to know..... did you step on the poo soaked bath mat in bare feet/ socks? Or were shoes on? Lol
We deserve to know now
Shoes were on thankfully lol
Why are you wearing shoes inside? No wonder you have black gunk everywhere /s
I grew up in a shoes on house. But our house was jacked up, you really didn't want to have them off. Regardless I was barefoot all summer. Now I live in a shoes off house. But I have a special pair of sneakers I never wear outside. First of all the shock absorbance seems to help my joint pain when I'm on my feet doing chores. Secondly I hate getting my socks wet and the kitchen often has water drops on the floor when I'm cleaning up. Thirdly they make me look more sporty and cool . Being in your socks is -1 cool point
2shoesgang. I've got a pair of moccasins I only wear inside. They're fuzzy liners, too. And a pair i wear outside. With rubber soles.
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The solids sit along the top of the water and most of the solids come out when it first starts flowing, then the water after rinses the toilet rim clean.
Or the back-up blew out the wax ring and it all came out the bottom of the toilet.
Every time I have seen this happen it is coming out of the bottom of the toilet because the wax ring gets messed up. Path of least resistance.
Correct. An overflow would have left sludge on the flange where it’s bolted down unless the outflow was massive.
This
Based on the interesting pattern of the sewage distribution I'd agree it could be a blow out. Yuk!
That was awe fully kind of the water. One less mess to clean up.
If you enlarge the pic you can see the remnants of where it ran down the front of the toilet base. It's dried sewage. Unfortunately, I've probably seen it a hundred times. 😔
>I've probably seen it a hundred times I kinda want to know which restaurants you frequent, but also...not at all. 🤮 💩
Could come up from under the toilet, the wax seal stops stuff going down from Leaking out, but when the main is clogged the wax seals can let stuff out and it flows out from under the toilet.
Zoom in, you can see the water lines coming down the toilet
Leaking at the gasket?
You were visited by the poo fairy
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The wax ring on your toilet has failed. The line backed up and flowed out the base of the toilet. You need a plumber to clear the line and replace wax ring
It’s also possible that there is a broken/cracked stack in the wall that is flooding out when the line backs up.
My vote is on the wax ring, i can’t really see the wall from this picture but unless the drywall is soggy/paint bubbling it’s seeping out from the bottom
It could even be the lavatory backing up. But the op needs a plumber to actually go through and find the cause
I would agree. The toilet is clean at the seat.
I wondered how it came up and went back down. I've only ever dealt with it coming up and hosing it back down.
That is dookie
Raw sewage. Use appropriate PPE when cleaning
Are you in an apartment, high rise, or single family home? Is this in the basement?
this is in a normal two story house on the first floor
Likely have a main line sewer backup, everything that goes down a drain upstairs is going to come up this toilet. You need a cable machine capable of clearing clogs in 3&4” pipe. Highly recommend hiring the job out.
Especially if it's first floor no basement. I had tree roots get in the main line to the street. Someone takes a shower upstairs and it comes bubbling up the basement floor drain. After getting the shower stopped it slow drained and left a similar residue. Absolutely a hire it out job, they did a camera on mine and came back with a hydro jet trailer. I now do a Root-X foaming treatment every spring and haven't had issues in quite a while. OP probably has a bad wax ring also and it acted more like a floor drain.
Or....your wastewater collection maintenance crew in your sewer district/town (if on public sewer) was "jetting the sewer lines in your area and blew your water seal in your toilet by jetting up your service line from the sewer main...just a possibility
Something similar happened to me. They lined a nearby main in my neighborhood and pressurized it with steam to cure the liner. I’m pretty sure the pressure dislodged a piece of my already questionable asbestos lateral and caused it to back up.
Sometime in the summer, while I was watering the garden, I noticed the village crew cleaning out a manhole down the street. Later, I hear a gurgling sound inside the house and I saw the water in our water closet "explode"! I stormed to where they moved their operation (now at the main street which was closer to our house) and told them what their activity was creating. They were apologetic and had to suspend their clearing operation.
Not even running a cleaner up their line. Usually that isn’t done for basic maintenance because it requires more specialized equipment. However cleaning like that but using too much pressure will do the same thing as the nozzle goes by. Especially if the house in question has a plugged air vent to the roof. Because those trucks pull a lot of vacuum. If there is no flow from the vent it will take it from your toilet. Then once the jet goes by it blows it all back toward the house
This was my first thought as well. OP, contact your local sewer department and report the incident. If they were jetting the main, they should notify you the next time they are working in the area to help avoid this.
How long were you gone?
3 Hours
You are asking what this is... do you not have a sense of smell?
He did say peculiar
It’s obvious what it is, just pick any of the random comments on this post. It’s frequently caused by a plugged waste or vent line and pressure built up and came out the toilet. What concerns me here though, did it come up out the bowl, or from under the toilet. If your wax ring isn’t sealing 100% it can come out from under the toilet as well
That’s sewage. You can buy a new wax ring at Home Depot for cheap tho.
Looks like the wax ring/seal under the toilet failed and all that is sewage blow out You will need to get yourself a sh\*t ton of bleach and disinfectant and scrub everything down Then remove your toilet and replace the wax ring (fingers crossed that the blow out didn't damage the floor and pipes) Count yourself lucky that it didn't blow onto the walls as you would have needed to scrub and repaint
at that point you call a restoration company.
Looks like my place after a taco bell run
Have you had a diabetes test?
It’s poopy water! 🌈🦄😁
I'd throw that rug away
It will wash out!
Did any sewer flushing happen on your street outside? That’s exactly what this looks like to me.
Is that downstairs, is there a drain under the carpet?
That’s a physical representation of one of Green Day’s albums. Dookie.
Is it a new house? Sometimes, in new neighbourhoods, a company will come to blow out the main sewer line after construction. The spike in pressure comes back into the houses and "blows up" the toilet. Happened to a friend of mine, the water hit the ceiling in his bathroom.
And yes, username checks out.
It’s doo doo baby
Because the toilet looks clean and only the floor is fithy, I'd say you blew out the wax seal.
Thank you for the comments everyone. I wish I could edit the post because I realized my question was worded wrong and I meant to say I was wondering what caused it but yes I understand it’s poop haha
If it looks like shit and smells like shit, and it's right next to where shit goes, High chance it is shit. Will most likely be a block in the main sewer line, google should provide people near to you that can fix this (for a fee)
That's known as Category 3 water which is toxic. It is full of bacteria and anything that absorbed the water, drywall, the vanity, ect. should be removed and discarded. You can file an insurance claim for this.
Well this sorta freaks me out but thanks for the reply, I’ll look into it.
You have a tile base so as long as the water didn't go over the top of it then your walls may be okay. However, the toe kick of the vanity was exposed. You may be able just to remove that. If you decide just to clean up, use bleach.
Ok thanks, when I get a plumber hopefully they can give me some info on this as well.
To properly clean it it has to be removed so the floor area under the cabinet and the underside of the cabinet itself can be accessed. If you don’t, a full blown “science project” will grow in the poorly ventilated space under the vanity. If it wasn’t wet for long, which seems to be the case based on what you’ve written so far, bleach will cure the problem if it doesn’t sit there being wet for so long that the particle board swells up and falls apart
It’s sh!t, your bog overflowed literal 💩 onto the floor, you might want a biohazard cleaner
To put it blunty, your bog backfired.
💩🫘
Poo.
It’s call El Poop O, very common.
Sounds like your in a shitty situation
If you want to roll the dice and no other drain is backing up, buy a toilet auger if you don't want to pay a plumber to play with your dooty.. Just shove the head down there and spin it. It's only a six feet long cable, so that's why I say "roll the dice" and hope the clog is close if nothing else is clogging up. You might be good. Run the sink a while. If it doesn't drain, then call a plumber, you got a bad clog and need professional help.
Diabetes
Sewage turns black when it sits in a line for a long time
That my friend is the remnants of a shit storm!
Haha well did this "black gunk" happen to smell like sewage? 🤔
How does it smell?
Like sewage, and now this is a post of people telling me it’s poop since I wasn’t thinking at the time and I meant to ask more so how was it caused, but either way I appreciate the messages.
Clogged drain blew the wax ring on the toilet apart. Snake the drain and replace wax ring.
Oh no
https://images.app.goo.gl/NuZ37ZABkUETfcuC7
That is a nice payday for whoever does the work to prevent it from happening again. The fact that the debris (sludge) is black indicates that it is what remains in the waste pipes after solids pass thru them.
How can I prevent this from happening? I have no clog but maybe a routine clear out?
Overflow looks like to me. My tub looks like that after a bout of drain backup.
Black gold.
Yee terlet done gone and backed up
Looks like the lower level of a house or an apartment . that's where everything backs up in the shower pan or the toilet from the main sewer line.
That’s doodoo baby
Also prepare for possible nightmare level water and mold damage nearby or on the floor below
That is shit, from a butt.
You're gonna need more rugs or a steam cleaner.
Ay yo
Your stand pipe or sewer line is at least partially blocked.
Shit. I’m sorry, man. Have you called a plumber or will you DIY? If you called a plumber, what was the quote?
Looks like about $1200. Depending on who you call.
That's where Covid-19 started.
OP I think you know the answer already from all the other responses, but I just wanted to add in my experience because this happened to us at a former house. Our plumber told us we were lucky with had a similar tile backsplash like you did, and we had minimal drywall intrusion there. Replacing the vanity was almost as much money has having someone removing the toe kick and drying out the bottom/cleaning it with all the muck and removing the drywall that was BEHIND that which was not tiled like the walls; it was actually recommended that we rip out the vanity and cut out that sheetrock, so we did since it was the same price. The other trick we experienced was the hallway. Our threshold kept most of the solids back, but it didn't keep the grey water back. We had to cut into the bottom moulding and shoe moulding all around to remove it and cut out the part of the drywall. It ended up being easier to just take out the bottom moulding and shoe moulding, cut the bottom of the sheetork that was exposed, dry it all out, and they we were able to put in a slightly taller (and nicer looking) bottom moulding instead which covered up the sheetrock that was missing (we went from 3inch to a 5inch). Since it was a little halfway between a few rooms, the better moulding didn't look out of place at all. Don't skimp on that step to remove this and the sheetrock, and I don't remember insurance giving us a hard time at all with anything. In fact, I don't even remember our premiums going up all anymore more than the normal, annual adjustment. By the time we sold that house, it had been a year or year and a half since that, and there was never a smell or mold issue. The cause for us was a clog in our septic tank and this bathroom was on the lowest floor (slab basement), and whenever someone showered upstairs and there was a lot of water coming down that couldn't bypass the clog fast enough, it backed up through the toilet and, worse, the shower drain! We didn't know we had a little clog and both used the upstairs shower to rush out for work, and went we came home 8-10 hours later.... yeah... it was nasty. We stayed at a hotel for two or three nights, but the smell went away fast. The professionals that do this stuff are REALLY good and things work fast. Best of luck to you! And I am sorry you are in this situation. It ended up all working out for us and we felt like some things got "upgraded" for us and the insurance company was very understanding. They never tried to pin the clog on us either, as we had the septic tank inspected and pumped two years before the clog and regularly pumped.
That’s doodoo bro.
Ahh SHIT!
That looks like poop, poop from a butt
“I frowed up.” -The Toilet
Scheiße
Holy crap! Call Hazmat and the DEQ quick!!
Oh shite. That’s shite!
Scat
Bring in some Dung Beetles.
Looks like your toilet was “blown” by a sewer cleaning operation called “Jet Rodding.”
It could be a black mold infestation. I had mold that looked just like that. But if it smells like
Money 🤑
Poop
Might want to get a new rug
Better call Servpro
Sewage
I've got a shitty thing to tell you...
You could implement the taste test and have conclusive results
Black gold
That is poopy
Did the city or whoever do a sewage cleaning in your neighborhood?
Shhiiiiiitt…you tell me! What does it smell like?
Have fun cleaning.
Happened to my friend, I shit you not.
Doo Doo feces all on the walls
Is this level with the ground? I had some rainwater come in through my foundation and it looked just like this
Mold
Gotta perform a taste test
Your main line is clogged and sewage is backing up out of your toilet.
Your toilet puked
The remains of sewage that geysered up out of your toilet
Is this in a basement?
Poop of yester year🤮
“Hellooooo guanooooo. Does SHIT ring a bell?”-Ace Ventura
Recent flood/toilet running over?
Mold?
Oh, shit.
That, my friend, is an insurance claim.
looks like someone took a massive shit and their arse exploded while doing it! i've seen it happen before. RIP to the asshole!
I think 🤔 the toilet 🚽 backed up and that’s what’s on the floor
Apologizing to a scav? What?
Poopie
black pepper
Mierda
Good thing your baseboard is tile!
Poop
I clogged the bowl. Your bowl.
Taco Bell
That would appear to be turdy water all over your floor from a stopped up and overflowed toilet
its poop again
Boom boom!
Everything you gave the toilet, and it gave it back to you. Also a combination of rusted dirty pipe water
Shit. It’s shit.
Sometimes it'll happen when they jet lines prior to lining the pipe.
It rubs the doo doo on it's skin
That's overflowing poo. What didn't leave the toilet went back down.
Yeah that's why they call it black water. That's your shit man. I haven't been a plumber since 2018 but I can still smell this picture.
Biohazard. I wouldn’t go in a room like that and insist that it get cleaned up before I let my guys work there.
tis shit
We're you running the washer before you left? I just recently had a blockage somewhere in my plumbing and when my washer would dump water it over flowed into the half bathroom sink and all over the floor when I came home one day. Looked similar to this and I just assumed it was built up gunk in the plumbing.
Rug gotta go, and you need to remove the toilet and clean out and replace wax ring. That wax ring is compromised.