MY tub is clogged and water drains slowly. Are there any homemeade remedies?

Answer 1

take the plug out get a wire hanger and clean out all the hair in the drain.

Answer 2

Have someone hold a rag tightly over the overflow hole at the top of the tub, usually located just under the water tap on the unit to set the drain plug, and use a plunger on the drain with about 2 or 3 inches of water in the bottom of the tub. Good luck.

Answer 3

At HDepot or Lowe's they sell this device which goes on the end of a hose that looks a little like a nozzle with a rubber grip. It's not a rubber grip, and when the hose is pressurized (turned on) the "grip" part swells up and water comes out of the end in a pulsating jet. This unit is inserted into the overflow of the tub (take off the round plate, it has two screws) and then the water to the hose is turned on. It will swell-up inside the overflow and blast downward inside the drain tube.

I did this once, and a pencil came back up into the tub. Try this. The device comes in a couple of sizes, and for your purpose, get the small one. It works. (I don't remember its name, so just go to the plumbing dept. with my description of it... good luck.)

Answer 4

Assuming it's built-up soap and not hair, you can run a few doses of BOILING water down the drain. That should melt some of it away.

Another thing you can do is pour about a quarter cup of baking soda down and then chase it with a half-cup of vinegar. You'll get the Science-Fair-Volcano effect for awhile. Then rinse, again with very hot water.

If it's hair, you'll have to go with the wire hanger trick.

Answer 5

Sulphuric acid is good but I find it more expensive than caustic soda (lye) and I worry about what it does to copper piping.
Pour some caustic soda flakes or granules into the plughole, follow with a little water to dissolve, then wait ten minutes and flush with lots of cold water. Use rubber gloves when handling sulphuric acid and also caustic soda - or put a plastic bag over your hand.
A friend of mine uses Coca Cola to clean blocked drains.

Answer 6

You can try a plunger (remember that a plunger works on the UP stroke so it is pulling the blockage out not pushing it through) Failing that you can buy a few meters of the spring that is used to hang net curtains, unwind a few turns at the tip and put this down your waste pipe turning it round as you go. Works a treat.

Answer 7

Back in the 80's a friend of mine told me that cholorine bleach was a cheap and effective drain opener. She was right! When I have a slow drain, I just pour about a quart of bleach down it. It works very well. Of course, you always want to take care not to mix bleach and ammonia.

Answer 8

Pour in a few heaping tablespoons of baking soda. Wait a minute. Slowly pour in a cup of white vinegar. Wait about 15 minutes. Pour in a saucepan full of boiling hot water.

Answer 9

Use a henostat or long nose pliers and reach down into the drain and pull the hair out. The hair gradully builds up and slows drainage.

Answer 10

I use baking soda and vinegar it will fizz
Put baking soda then pour vinegar over it it will fizz up (kids love it) flush with hot water (make sure water is hot before you start this. You may have to do again but it works fine I do it to all my drains

If hair is in grate take it off and clean out funk with coat hanger. screw grate back on but baking soda and vinegar will probably do fine