Sunk Sink
OK, this is fun: say your sink is clogged. It just won't drain right, and you're constantly having to stop what your doing to let the water level sink enough to wash the dishes.
Now, you could pull out the Drano, but you could also make a tasty baking soda and vinegar cocktail. Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda down the drain, and then 1/2-1 cup of ordinary white vinegar. The two materials make a chemical reaction that fizzes and pops all the way down the pipes. Let it sit for a few minutes and pour several cups of boiling water down to clear the drain. It's fun and it actually works.
If your drain is really in a bad way, you might need the Drano (or, even better, Kleer Drain), but this is perfect for minor blockages or general maintenance, and good for the environment, too!
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If the sink's really firmly clogged, and you stick the plug in and lean on it after pouring in the vinegar, then the carbon dioxide evolved by the reaction will have nowhere to go but down through the blockage, and may thus help to shift it.
If the blockage isn't solid, though - most of them aren't, and any blockage that lets a sink drain at a noticeable speed isn't - then the gas will just bubble through it. And if you don't firmly plug the sink, the gas will take the easiest way out and just come straight back up.
In most cases, no amount of pouring caustic or other substances down the plughole will actually help.
Plunging, especially with one of those "giant syringe" plungers, can solve minor problems and temporarily help with worse ones. But you're going to have to at least get a snake down there to clear most blockages.
Posted by dansdata on October 05, 2006 at 04:16:07 Pacific Time
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