BeerRunner

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Hi. Plumber here. Forget all those chemical drain cleaner ideas. Most are garbage. The active ingredient is hype. By the time it reaches the clog, the hype will be too diluted to do anything. If it doesn't work and you call a plumber, they may bill you extra for some chemical getting on their boots/pants.

Your best bet is to unclog it with a drill-powered auger like this:



Whether it's you or a professional plumber who does the unclogging.

The most likely culprit is food that went through the garbage disposal. No matter how powerful your disposal, no matter how much it cost, no matter how much it "should" work, there are plenty of things that should never go through it. Things like potatoes, celery, corn husks, rice, pasta of any type, all kinds of things. IMHO, disposals are largely useless. Homeowners think it's an electric trash can.

mordantly

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i've never had good luck running a 1/2" powersnake down roof vents. the sweep always goes the wrong way. get a 50 footer at the hardware and run it through. it sounds like some crap from the disposal. you gotta run the disposal for a few minutes after with good water flowing to let it grind up everything. could also be rice and or grease. commercially, the traps need weekly emptying for that reason.

BHowe

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Great feedback guys, I'm hitting it with a 50 foot snake this afternoon.

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i inherited the disposal in this house five years ago. it is only a trip away from the hardware store before it gets yanked. but then i gotta redo the faucet, and if i'm ripping out all that i minus well put real shut off valves on there, and well **** all that. i just don't use the disposal any more. but + 1 for a snake, and don't pour the drano down there...

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Speak of the clog and it shall appear. The drain pipe the washing machine discharges to got clogged yesterday. 50' of drain snake could just reach the tip of it. Used the Clog Buster. Clog busted. Careful though. You can bust pipes with this thing.

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