MithShrike
Diamond Member
So my sister and I share a bathroom at the moment and she has way too much hair. The sink clogs up once a month or so and normally I can just get some pliers down by the stopper and pull a good chunk of hair out. Well, this month I had to resort to some more drastic measures. After attempting the pliers I realized that the problem had to be in the pipes and in a far less accessible place.
So I went to clearing out the crap from under the sink and there sure was a lot let me tell you. I found all diffrerent kinds of hair products and cleaners and even some tea bags... I don't know why those were there. Moving right along, I got a drip pan (Tupperware dish about 8in. x 8in. x 12in.) and a towel. I got under the sink and assessed the situation. I did not need any fancy tools to get the gooseneck off just had to undo some plastic rings around the PVC pipe. I looked in the gooseneck and it was free and clear. Well damn.
So, I sat there for a second trying to think how I would get the hair out from the pipe leading directly from the drain and then I remembered those wire hangers the dry cleaners give you with the plastic tubing. I broke the hanger in half and discarded the tubing. I bent the hanger into a shape that resembled a hook and some evil device for backwoods colonoscopies.
I shoved the hanger in the pipe and lo and behold! sh!t came falling down to splash quite nastily in the drip pan. Hooray! I had cleared the pipe of interloping hair and all was wel in the bathroom.
Cliff notes:
Nasty blockage of sink.
Wire hanger and some ingenuity.
Success.
So I went to clearing out the crap from under the sink and there sure was a lot let me tell you. I found all diffrerent kinds of hair products and cleaners and even some tea bags... I don't know why those were there. Moving right along, I got a drip pan (Tupperware dish about 8in. x 8in. x 12in.) and a towel. I got under the sink and assessed the situation. I did not need any fancy tools to get the gooseneck off just had to undo some plastic rings around the PVC pipe. I looked in the gooseneck and it was free and clear. Well damn.
So, I sat there for a second trying to think how I would get the hair out from the pipe leading directly from the drain and then I remembered those wire hangers the dry cleaners give you with the plastic tubing. I broke the hanger in half and discarded the tubing. I bent the hanger into a shape that resembled a hook and some evil device for backwoods colonoscopies.
I shoved the hanger in the pipe and lo and behold! sh!t came falling down to splash quite nastily in the drip pan. Hooray! I had cleared the pipe of interloping hair and all was wel in the bathroom.
Cliff notes:
Nasty blockage of sink.
Wire hanger and some ingenuity.
Success.
