This Cheap Plumbing Tool Will Be Your New Best Friend
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One of the most common requests we get is to unclog a bathroom sink. To emphasize, what we find usually is that loose hair has caught on the inside walls of the drain or wrapped around their sink’s pop-up drain stopper. Eventually, too much hair will back up your drain. When this happens, your water flow will slow way down or even come to a halt.
This tool, anywhere from $0.99 to $4.00 is worth its weight in gold and may even save your from a costly visit from you local plumber. It’s non-toxic, which is cool. It’s made of plastic. It’s got these little teeth that basically pull up hair and anything else that’s clogging the drain. All you do is stick it down into the drain…and then you pull it out. You’ve got to be careful because these things are sharp but we’ll tell you this – it really works! You can get this tool here…
Fortunately, using this drain snake is the easy part. Here are the quick and easy steps to get the water flowing down the drain:
Open the sink drain’s stopper
Chances are, you won’t even have to remove the stopper. Just lift it up with your hands or open it using the stopper lever located just above or below your bathroom faucet.unclog a bathroom sink – lift drain stopper
Place hair snake into bathroom sink drain
Place the sharp end of the hair snake into the drain. The pointy thorns should be facing up. how to use drain snake to unclog a bathroom sink – place plastic drain snake into drain
Vigorously move around hair snake
We suggest you put on some rubber gloves for this step. After the snake is well into the drain, begin pull it back up, then down, and side to side. You can rotate it, spin it, whatever. The idea here is to get the thorns (the pointy sides) of the snake to snag any hair (or other clingy debris) in the drain. unclog a bathroom sink – move snake up and down
Pull out hair snake and clean
Make sure you have a trash bag nearby. You’ll want to clean hair and debris from the drain snake and place into a trash bag.
Run water and test drain flow
In conclusion, run your water for a while. Does it drain quickly now? If so, you’re done. If not, repeat step 3 and try again.
Open the sink drain’s stopper
Chances are, you won’t even have to remove the stopper. Just lift it up with your hands or open it using the stopper lever located just above or below your bathroom faucet.unclog a bathroom sink – lift drain stopper
In conclusion, if you believe you have a clogged drain that needs to be looked at, and simpler methods aren’t working, call our team at OMG! Amazing or a professional plumber. Consequently, homeowners sometimes try to fix clogs on their own, using their own tools, and end up causing more damage to their pipes and sewage line.
Peter D. Sawyer
Founder & CEO
Born in New York and now living in California, Peter is a dedicated and proud father of Xander – a true miracle of life. After spending 26 years as manager of Operations and Engineering for the CBS Television network, he launched OMG! Amazing in 2019 because he wanted to help people enjoy life in a smarter home.
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