Irritation time – choked drains pipes
At the end of a hard day’s work, you get into the shower and enjoy the buzz of hot water on your face and then,suddenly your toes seem to go under water too – Oh no, the drain is choked once again and the water will not soak away!. Yuck! A plugged drain. And it’s not confined to the bath and shower, you could be brushing your teeth getting ready for bed only to be confronted with the sink filling up rapidly as the excess water will not soak away. The prospect of sorting choked drains out is not a happy one; it can be messy and time consuming. But the fact is that sooner or later, a bathroom drainpipe is going to become obstructed or suffer a blockage. The best way to manage clogged up bathroom drainage is to learn how to unblock them.
First, let’s look at why drainage become obstructed and what are the main causes of a blockage preventing waste water soak away.
Plugged drains can occur when some material such as hair, dust and particles become trapped in the area between your bathroom drain pipe and the drainage pipes that follow underneath. The condition gets worse when products like conditioners, shampoos and detergents accumulate in the already plugged drainage. Eventually the clumps of accumulated matter prevent water from a quick soak away or may even completely seal the drain pipe hole. When waste water drains very slowly or just stands stubbornly in the washbasin, you know you have a stopped drain pipe problem.
How to remove the drain pipe blockage.
You can do a number of things to unblock your bathtub or bathroom sink drain to allow the water to soak away. The first step is to remove the plug whether the blocked drainpipe is in a sink or bath. With a bathroom sink this can be as easy as pulling it right out or as complicated a problem as looking under the sink and removing the nut that holds it in place. In case of your bathtub, the plug can be unscrewed at the mouth of the drainage or the overflow plate can be removed to expose the assembly.
It is important to remove the stopper because only then you can view the things that are clogging the drain inside the drain pipe. It will most certainly appear like a collection of hair and other particles covered with slimy material inside the drain’s piping. Reach down into the pipe and pull out as much as possible. If the mass is located in a region, where it is difficult for you to grasp it and pull it out, then use a wire clothes hanger to dig into the clump and pull it back through the drain pipe pipe. Removing the hair, detergent residues and the rest of the material will surely solve your problem.
If the clog cannot be pulled out with the help of the hanger, then you should use other blockage-clearing methods. clogs which are very deep can be removed with the help of a drainpipe plunger. First, cover the overflow drain with a wet cloth in order to make the air suction from the plunger stronger. Next, place the plunger directly over the drain pipe opening and methodically pulse the plunger up and down several times. Hopefully, after doing this and once the plunger is taken away, any water should flow freely down the drainpipe and soak away as the vacuum created shifted the blockage.
If the plunger also fails to clean your bathroom drainpipe, then you should take the help of chemical drain pipe cleaner. The chemicals have the potential to harm your bathroom fixtures, and they are dangerous too; for this reason, they should be used only when all the above methods fail to unclog your drain pipe.
If all else fails, get a professional drainage service in.
If you are unable to unclog the drains even after trying all the methods, it is only advisable to call a professional plumber who has experience of drains work. Plumbers have special equipment to clean the blocked drains speedily and effortlessly such as a drains snake, drains contractors also employ water jetting to clear blockages and cctv drainage cameras to view inside the drain pipe checking that the water will soak away. It may cost you, but you will find it is worth the money once you can use your sink and shower worry free.
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