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Washing soda (washing powder is laundry detergent) plus vinegar. What that does is produce hot foam and a lot of gas.
Exactly, washing powder and soda are basically the same thing, and you can use them in the laundry -- it depends upon whom you ask, and the person who recommended it to me is not an American English speaker, hence she refers to it as washing powder. The mixture does effervesce, and I believe that it removes the sediment in the pipes before it becomes a problem. Baking soda and vinegar for the same purpose is something I have heard/read before, but washing powder is somewhat more effective, in my experience. Chemical products do tend to eat away the pipes, which is why I would either use a remedy like soda/vinegar or call a plumber.
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NO! Don't use Drano! It's awful on the pipes, and they're so shoddy that they don't even bother giving you good directions.
Either
1)ask your super to snake, if you have a super
2)buy a great product called 10-Minute Clog, or one allied Pequa, although that's supposed to be better for the kitchen; I don't know how widely they're sold, but try Vercesi on 23rd.
Actually a plummer told my Mother to once a week pour bleech down the drain. i am thinking there is some logic to this, as I have a portable washer that I connect to my kitchen sink, hence bleech washes, and in 25 years my kitchen sink has never gotten clogged up.
Drano works a bit... but very poorly.
There is no sustitute for a snaking by a plumber...or a savvy super with a powered snake. I lived in a "luxury" building with poorly sloping bathtub drains that had to be snaked annually.
For a bathtub, an alternate is to take off the runoff drain cover along with the jiggly thingy that stops the water and plug the hole with a wet sock. Then half fill the tub (use a stopper for the drain.) Get into the tub with a good plunger, pull the stopper and PLUNGE for all your worth...a good aerobic workout. You will soon be standing in black slop that will run back down. Better, try to catch as much gunk as you can with a strainer. Repeat the operation...when it seems clean your drain will drain freely...until the next time. And lastly you must cleanser the tub with shower running because it will be DISGUSTING.
Needless to say, this operation is best performed NUDE.
You need the wet sock to make sure the suction extends down the drain rather than just in and out the overflow. If you are careful about filling the tub for a bath you can leave the sock in semi permanently...put the cover doojiggy in a place you will remember.
Thank you for the very helpful, very graphic, suggestion.
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Originally Posted by Kefir King
Drano works a bit... but very poorly.
There is no sustitute for a snaking by a plumber...or a savvy super with a powered snake. I lived in a "luxury" building with poorly sloping bathtub drains that had to be snaked annually.
For a bathtub, an alternate is to take off the runoff drain cover along with the jiggly thingy that stops the water and plug the hole with a wet sock. Then half fill the tub (use a stopper for the drain.) Get into the tub with a good plunger, pull the stopper and PLUNGE for all your worth...a good aerobic workout. You will soon be standing in black slop that will run back down. Better, try to catch as much gunk as you can with a strainer. Repeat the operation...when it seems clean your drain will drain freely...until the next time. And lastly you must cleanser the tub with shower running because it will be DISGUSTING.
Needless to say, this operation is best performed NUDE.
You need the wet sock to make sure the suction extends down the drain rather than just in and out the overflow. If you are careful about filling the tub for a bath you can leave the sock in semi permanently...put the cover doojiggy in a place you will remember.
Drano works a bit... but very poorly.
There is no sustitute for a snaking by a plumber...or a savvy super with a powered snake. I lived in a "luxury" building with poorly sloping bathtub drains that had to be snaked annually.
For a bathtub, an alternate is to take off the runoff drain cover along with the jiggly thingy that stops the water and plug the hole with a wet sock. Then half fill the tub (use a stopper for the drain.) Get into the tub with a good plunger, pull the stopper and PLUNGE for all your worth...a good aerobic workout. You will soon be standing in black slop that will run back down. Better, try to catch as much gunk as you can with a strainer. Repeat the operation...when it seems clean your drain will drain freely...until the next time. And lastly you must cleanser the tub with shower running because it will be DISGUSTING.
Needless to say, this operation is best performed NUDE.
You need the wet sock to make sure the suction extends down the drain rather than just in and out the overflow. If you are careful about filling the tub for a bath you can leave the sock in semi permanently...put the cover doojiggy in a place you will remember.
Do you have a YouTube clip which shows us how to do this??
Ive had mixed experiences. I feel like it works on small clogs. Big clogs not so much. Also the gel seems to work better.
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