Dropped Earrings Down the Sink… Here’s Where They End Up 😳
Video by That Fix It Guy
That Fix It Guy
What happens here
This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to retrieve lost jewelry or other small items from a bathroom sink drain. The process involves disassembling the P-trap and pop-up assembly, cleaning out accumulated hair and debris, retrieving the item, and then reassembling the drain system while checking for leaks.
Transcript
(3,647 characters)Hide
Transcript
(3,647 characters)walking over to my neighbor's house just got home he text me while I was gone and said hey dude I got a little bit of an issue can you come check it out so that's what we're doing come along let's get to fixing we're at my neighbor's master bath sink and he said that there was a couple of earrings in this little cup that got poured down the sink if you guys ever lose something down your sink well it might still be in the P trap okay you're going to want to give yourself some space right get cleared down get your stuff cleared out of here you're not going to need many tools really these are actually hand tight you can probably take this Peach wrap off and put it back on hand tight you might need a pair of pliers like these knipex cobras right here to take these two nuts off if they're too tight and you're going to want something to catch the water like my little makeshift Contraption here that kind of works out and fits perfect in that space we're going to keep our fingers crossed that what we're looking for is in here just loosen this side oh you can see these guys they weren't looking for a leak man I like to put a little pipe dope just right around the nut these dudes straight up just all through the threads they're like we ain't ever going to get a leak on this oh and we're never going to get that apart this is why you got to pull out the the pliers from time to time guys all right there we go yeah sometimes boom that drops what we're looking for might actually be caught up on this hair right here we'll see when doing some drain work it's always good to grab some gloves right keep the funky off your hands we'll just pull that down out of there oh well oh look at that gold Jen was there only one or was there two okay so he says there's two we found one so far let's get this clean cleaned up get this push through the P trap here just to get all that cleaned out maybe it's stuck on something in there and I can't see it I don't know there we go get that started that's way better make sure that it's not in the hair so the next thing is we'll get right back here and we will pop the popup assembly lever we will unscrew that we'll move this out that way we can pull the popup assembly off we can just pop this up out of here oh I see it okay so yeah I totally see it if we get down right over there you see it sitting there it's actually a sitting right on the edge Oh no just flick it out yeah there it goes it dropped it did fall in there we found the matching set here take some paper towel just go straight down this popup assembly as well I tend to carry a couple of these around Flathead Phillips head just to be able to get stuff out the drains like this oh yeah and when it comes out like that it just is clean so now it's really cleaned down and it looks way better than it did and get that tightened up get that tightened up the more you clean everything off just the better off everything is going to be we line these two holes we line this up like this going to the back get that down in the drain get that put in started we'll look up top make sure that it's functioning which it is and now we can just tighten that up the rest of the way we'll fill hit the drain grab it again to fill it up all right that's draining really good drains fast don't see any water anywhere everything looks good to go so there you go I really hope this helped you drop something down your sink this is a quick easy simple solution that anybody could do really just take your time make sure you clean it all out as you're going along and you're going to be good to go thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon
Auto-generated from the video audio.