Solve your plugged drains issues
Solve your plugged drains issues
You might notice the clogged drainage when you are in shower and suddenly the water level starts rising up. Yuck! A clogged drain pipe. Or while brushing your teeth by the sink, all of a sudden the sink starts to fill up. Clearing choked drainage is something everyone wants to avoid because it’s such a messy task and the defective drains make one appear unhygienic (and that’s what those drainage are). Yet many residential bathrooms or kitchen will suffer from a obstructed drain incident at one particular point or another. The best course of action for you is to be prepared to deal with it by learning how to unblock bathroom drainage.
Why Do They Happen?.
Clogging occurs when substances like hair, dust and other bits and pieces get trapped in the region where the bathroom drain is connected to the main drainpipe pipe. The problem is further exacerbated when household products such as soaps, detergents, shampoos and conditioners and others are allowed to build up on the growing accumulation. Finally the accumulation becomes too thick to allow any water to pass through and it is then that the drainage get completely plugged. If the water has started building up quickly in your tub or sink, then without delay you should unblock the drainpipe.
So how can you unclog these drainage?.
Time to roll up your sleeves and tackle the clog – here are a few tips on what you can do to unblock your bath or sink drain pipe. The first thing that you need to do is to remove the plug of your sink or bath drain pipe. Look beneath the sink, you may have to remove a nut that secures the stopper or in some cases you can just directly pull out the stopper by the u-bend. In case of your bath, the plug can be unscrewed at the mouth of the drainage or the overflow plate can be removed to expose the assembly.
You may be able to see the blockage clearly after the plug has been taken out. Whilst messy, it is nothing, but a mound of hair and fragments around the components of the bathroom drain pipe. Try to get hold of the mass and pull it out. You may find it difficult to get at the blockage, in which case you could use something like a wire clothes hanger to fish the material out. This step of removing the residual clumps will remove the local blockage at your drain pipe point.
In a case of deeper clogging, your hand or hooked wire may not do the trick – you may have to try the next step. blockages which are very deep can be removed with the help of a drain pipe plunger. First, cover the overflow drain with a wet cloth in order to make the air suction from the plunger stronger. Then put the plunger over the drain pipe mouth and press it up and down repeatedly. You may find that this suction-push action of the plunger loosens the stopped debris down the pipe and the accumulated water now drains freely.
You may have to turn to a chemical solution, if the plunger fails to do the job. This method should only be used as a last resort because the chemicals used are dangerous and can be harmful to your bathroom fixtures.
Get skilled help if this is necessary, call in a drains contractor.
If after trying the various do-it-yourself methods you are still unable to unclog your drain pipe, it is a good idea to call your local reliable plumber for some help. Plumbers have special equipment to clean the choked drainage speedily and effortlessly such as a drainage snake, drainage contractors also employ water jetting to clear blockages and cctv drainage cameras to view inside the drainpipe. Taking professional help will cost you a bit but it is definitely worth it.