I've been having a problem with this drain since I bought the house a few months ago.
It was draining extremely slowly and now it won't drain at all.
I've tried plunging it a bunch of times, used daino a few times and also concentrated bleach.
Can anyone help me with this?
The pic is the plugged sink
Thank you!
Does the other side drain fine? Remove p trap under sink. Clean. Replace.
Other side of the sink is also plugged
I'm not really good at this house repair stuff so do I need to pull apart that area of the pipe with a U-bend?
Thanks the help is appreciated
>U-bend?
Yeah like where the pipe bends
This is what I mean in the picture
Is this the trap I need to pull apart and empty
Thanks
You can take that apart by hand in a couple of minutes. Quit being a pussy and get to work. If the p-trap is clear you have other issues and will need a snake.
Drain it by hand, take the sink apart, check for blockages in strainer/ p trap/ all the rest of the shit connected to the drain pipe going in your wall.
If you find a blockage, then remove it
If all is clear all the way to the drain pipe, then call a plumber, the problem is too deep for you to reach it.
>inb4 can't call a plumber for some fuckin reason
Try to fix it then I guess. Use one of those pipe grabber thingies.
>inb4 there is nothing I can do to make this shit work
This is a hail mary, and it may work only if there are no aluminum parts in any of your plumbing. If there are, do not attempt.
Put the sink back together.
Get some lye (no, not drano or any other mixed up shit. Standard, industrial quality NaOH that comes in a bag in the form of flakes. You find it in hardware stores an chemical shops).
Make 100-200 milliliters of solution of 25-50% (careful, it heats up when dissolved, and it's caustic as fuck, aka it will literally burn a hole in you wherever it lands)).
Pour that shit down the drain, then turn the tap on for long enough to not have it touch the sink (5-10 seconds should do). Make sure to leave all your windows open.
Let it be for half an hour, and pray that it eats through the blockage before it wrecks your pipes.
After the half hour has passed, turn the tap back on again and give it another go with the plunger.
Hopefully, the blockage is of organic nature (in which case the lye will turn it into very fluid jello) and gets dissolved. If it's anything resistant, like a rock or a piece of metal, you're fucked, you'll have to get in there with an angle grinder and replace the pipe.
I'm tired as fuck, and thus my proofreading sucks.
>100-200 milliliters of solution of 25-50%
I mean the concentration of the solution.
>then turn the tap on for long enough to not have it touch the sink
As in "have the lye solution sit on the surface of the sink for as little time as possible". Pour it, watch it go down, then immediately turn the tap on.
Like pure lye? Is that something that you can pick up at Lowes/home Depot kind of thing?
Check and clean out the p-trap.
Buy drain snake and run it through where p-trap is removed.
Or rent snake "larger and longer" and run it through several times,
Boil water and pour down drain with a bit of dish soap after snaking drain pipe.
Yeah if I can't get it unclogged in the morning I'm going to get a drain snake
I'm hoping it's just something in the trap like everyone is saying
Get some real drain cleaner, the stuff that's made from sulfuric acid (unless you're in EU, then you're shit out of luck), let the water slowly drip out or evaporate from the sink, then pour some drain cleaner in, open the window for ventilation, leave for 10 minutes, then pour some more, then flush with lots of hot water.
Well fuck....
I took apart what I showed in the picture and still no success
The house is old and there looks to be another trap after the floorboards
I opened it up and it's easily accessible so that's what I'm going to pull apart tomorrow
If that doesn't fix it then I'm really not sure what to do