Also, lesson learned: leave the lid down when going away. The result of an overflow is unpleasant but nothing like as bad as it would be otherwise...
@generalising I could see how that could happen... esp. if little kids were involved.
At our last house we had a back up the day after we moved in. The culprit was a tampon that had been flushed, expanded over time and collected a seemingly endless amount of dental floss until it formed a more or less solid wall in the pipe...
@IanTheLibrarian all adults I think! And all seemingly equally "well don't look at me I have never owned a sock in my life". Baffling.
Also eek! What a lovely first day experience...
Unexpected development: we did not find any significant amount of wet wipes!
We found a sock.
Someone flushed a sock down the toilet.
I ... have questions.