Absolutely NDR - fixing slow drain.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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Having three long haired females in my house means my bathroom sink drains are ALWAYS plugged to varying degrees. Draino just can't seem to eat through such tangles as the hair has been thickly coated with ultra expensive products before being deposited in said drains.

Other than having them sheared, what can I do?

Mike
 
Mike,

Same problem here, with two long haired ladies.

Usually gets plugged good and draino won't touch it. I have to take the drain apart and pull the glob of long hair out. It is a nasty operation, but someone has to do it... For the shower pull the drain cover out and fish in there with a coathanger hook. smae thing for the sink, remove the stopper and do the same thing. If you have rubber gloves handy, I'd use 'em.

Yuck, nasty.

Charlie
 
Take an old garden hose, hook it up to the outside and run it through the window (as long as it's not still 90 below zero up there) then seal the end into the drain with a rag and turn it on full blast. It'll usually push about anything out of a drain. If that doesn't work suck it out with a shop vac.

Hitch
 
Other than having them sheared, what can I do?
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So whats wrong with the first option???


Mike,

Having raised two daughters, I can relate to your problem. Best thing I found was, after first getting the drain unplugged, keep after the drains constantly. Usually there will be a cross piece in the drain just below the stopper. A lot of the hair will collect here first. If you check it often (everytime you use the sink/shower) then you can limit the amount which collects in the trap.

If you can get your women folk to check and clean it, your a better man than I.
 
I think it would be more fun watching Mike trying to shear the women in his house! There's three of them in my house and I know I wouldn't stand a chance.
 
Detail that drain cleaning job to the youngest long hair.Or rotate latrine duty every week.Use the back injury, which they know is true.If that doesn't work,you'll need a lawyer:^)
 
About the only thing that will take care of it is taking it out manually. Keep the appropriate screw driver, pliars, etc. in the bathroom. It doesn't take long................it's just yukky. Waiting for your women to get tired of the tub full of water because THEIR hair is clogging it and fix it themselves will NEVER happen.

Any chemical strong enough to just dissolve it will probably eat up your plumbing.

Once it's out you can buy a rubber screen that fits over the drain (sits right on top) that will stop most of it and then make sure that everyone cleans up after themselves.
 
Drain cleared. I used a bent wire to fish out what I could and then plungered the rest down the drain. Then we all had a nice talk about brushing our hair someplace other than over the sink. I am the man, I have spoken, and so it shall be from this day forth.

Thanks for the tips guys, but one thing is bugging me... how did Hitch know about women's hair in the drain?

Mike
 
There's a chemical for that purpose called HOT POWER. It is the ticket to clearing hair clogs. Everything around here is pvc so it does not affect the plumbing. Even when I had the old tar pipe stuff it worked without eating it away that I know of.
 
Never...ever...use a drain cleaning chemical. The scenario is this.....drain gets slow, no one says anything...drain stops....wife puts chemicals (draino,liquid plumber,etc) Dad gets home and wife tells him drain has been slow for a month and now it is plugged. Dad gets under sink and loosens trap slightly to allow standing water to drain into a pail....but...there is always that spray of shit that hits ya right in the eye before it just starts dribbling into the bucket. It's bad enough when it just contains toothpaste spit or a hacked up goober that didn't get hocked into the toilet.But when it is that, mixed with the noxious, sulfuric acid that is drain cleaner.......wellll..that just plain sucks.Get yourself a cheap drain snake, a 3 gallon bowl, a set of channel locks and keep them handy.
 
Thanks for the tips guys, but one thing is bugging me... how did Hitch know about women's hair in the drain?

Mike
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I raised two kids, one daughter and a son that spent as much time messing with his sometimes long hair as the daughter...you thought you had me, didn't you?

Hitch
 

If you can get your women folk to check and clean it, your a better man than I.
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Dave, Funny you say that. I somehow managed to train my wife to do this detail. She has these long cotton pliers they use at her dental office (basically a curved forceps) and she attacks the drains after they start to slow down from her and my long haired daughter. She complains bitterly, but still does it. The latest is she showed my daughter how to do it now as well.....My son and I are off the hook on this one and I am training him on how to defer jobs like this to the one's who created the mess!!

Lee, your description was so accurate that I almost feel the spray of water on my face!! Thanks for the laugh.
 
Lee you must have never used hot power, it is nothing like drano. I've never had to undo plumbing when I used this in the sinks or drains.
 
Les, no I haven't. My best bud is a plumber and told me to never use drain cleaner again...The "scenario" was actually "history". My bud said he dreaded going on clogged drain calls because he had no idea what they tried putting down there to "clean" them. He said one was so hot it was smoking.It takes less time to take a trap off and snake one out than it takes to get all the shampoo, toilet paper, curlers, cleaning solutions, extra washcloths,blowdriers,curling irons,fricken wallyworld trash the landscape plastic bags and whatever the wimmins through under there....out of the way to get at it.
 
Notice I said sinks or drains. The toilet chute is a different story. Two hot wheel cars,leggo blocks and a wrestling man does not dissolve, I did have to take the cleanout cap off for that.
 
Having three long haired females in my house means my bathroom sink drains are ALWAYS plugged to varying degrees. Draino just can't seem to eat through such tangles as the hair has been thickly coated with ultra expensive products before being deposited in said drains.

Other than having them sheared, what can I do?

Mike
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Think about leaving the small rodents (i.e., hairballs) that you fish out on their respective pillows.
 
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