Inspect and Identify Obstruction

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Once the pop-up stopper is removed, visually inspect it thoroughly. The video shows significant accumulation of hair, soap scum, and other debris wrapped around the stopper. Additionally, a small, wet piece of paper (described as 'literature for this drain assembly') was found tightly caught within the gunk, serving as a major obstruction.

Goal: Locate the source of the drain clog

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that the drain starts filling up. It's a nice thing about price fist here is you can just unscrew this, right like this and pull it out and oh my gosh. I wonder if that's always been in there. This is actually for the pop-up. This is a piece of literature for this drain assembly. Well, this nasty cleaned off here. It's also one of the screws in here, but it doesn't appear to be. And now this is never drained so good. I'm sure that the faucet install

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