My bathtub drain plugs up every 12 months or so. Whats the problem here??
By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
April 5, 2009 10:19am CST
My wife likes bath oil in her bath. I'm wondering if this is part of the problem? I have a drain fish and a wet pickup vacuum. By using these 2 tools I can usually manage to get it flowing. My wife doesn't use Draino, she says its environmentally unfriendly. I was amazed at the green goo that can up out of that drain. How do you manage to keep your drains running? Do you use bath-oil? Is there another product that's easier on the drains, and friendlier to the environment?
6 responses
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
6 Apr 09
I used to use bath oil but it never caused those sort of problems. I used to collect my hair so it didn't go down the drain. There is nothing worse than having to pull grotty hair out of the drain after it has been there a while collecting dirt. Yuck.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
6 Apr 09
Yes you may have the answer. Hair getting clogged in the drain and collecting everything else imaginable ( and some that's unimaginable)I'll definitely try the bi-carb soda and vinegar. In Canada we can buy 7% vinegar called, "Pickling Vinegar." Although we spend 5 months in South Texas each winter we have never found 7% vinegar for sale there. The 7% is a much better cleaning agent than the usual 5%.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Dec 09
hi barehugs I am wondering if your wife has long hair? I found in the last apartment we were in before we got evicted that my sink in my own bathroom was continually plugging up and I found the secret was that my long hair had floated down into the pipe and was clogging everything up.once I got the hair out of there no more plugging up. check for masses of hair. I am not kidding either.
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@orderfox (231)
• China
5 Apr 09
I want to try from the outside to do some eco-purification treatment. Can be scheduled at the exit of the design of purification tank.From soil and plant pools have concrete.Gravel.overflow pipes pose . And then discharged to the enviroment should be more friendly. You can be specific to the local environment or the Environmental Protection of Landscape Architects consultative consultative managers.I hope for your help troubled.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Apr 09
Now that you mention this- I have seen such an eco-purification pond. Its totally amazing how pond plants will purify waste water. If my memory serves me, Bulrushes are one of these water purifying Plants.Also gravel and sand will strain the water as it flows through, purifying it, and leaving it fresh and clear.
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
5 Apr 09
Oh that really has to suck, going through all that work. Im not a bath person, i like the shower better, so I don't have to worry about that, although I do have a problem with my bathroom sink draining slow.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Apr 09
I prefer a shower too, but my wife likes a Hot Bath. She loves that Bath Oil especially in the winter when the cold air chaps the skin. For some reason the shower drain never gives a problem. Long hair is a definite factor in drain problems. I haven't had any hair in 30 years, so I'm off the hook on that one.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
5 Apr 09
I have a septic system so i have to be careful what I use, baking soda and vinegar seem to do the job most of the time around here, I think our major problem is hair,
we don' use bath oil, maybe she can switch to bubble bath and apply oil after the bath.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Apr 09
I, too have a septic system, and a Well for a Water Supply. When we are self sufficient in this way, it gives pause to consider whats going down the toilet, and sink. I'll try the baking soda/vinegar. We already use Vinegar/Detergent mix to clean teacup stains, etc. The only intelligent course is to keep the environment healthy so that we can be healthy too.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
6 Apr 09
It might have a lot of hair going down it. That's an issue at our house. Do you have your own septic system or are you on a town system? If it's your own, have you tried putting a packet of yeast down every month? Yeast eats on things, but doesn't hurt anything. It's helped keep our septic system clean for years. Cheaper than the stuff you buy too.
