KITCHEN SINK DRAIN CLOSED ON ITS OWN!

hey folks that fix it guy here and a little while back i was over at my friend's house i did a basket strainer replacement for him i'll put a link in the description box below you guys can check that out if you'd like but he said he's got something funky going on with it so i'm gonna take you through my troubleshooting journey today and i'm gonna show you this weird thing that i found so come along let's get to fixing [Music] okay so the first thing you're gonna notice in the sink is that check that out they've got a rubber band that is the way that they're keeping this up he said man we have to keep this up or else when you use this as the strainer itself and you run water through it eventually this thing closes and stops up i said there is no way dude like i have this at home i don't see how it would do that but i said okay so what we're going to do is we're actually going to pop this rubber band off we're going to put this back down in here and we're just going to fill it up okay so um we've got this filled up about a third of the way and what we're gonna do is we're just gonna pop this twist and seal let's just zoom in and you just turn it counterclockwise to open it up and we'll just open it the whole way so you wonder so we ran it one time and look at that it seems totally fine right seems totally fine now let's just leave it like this start running it and just see what happens we run it like this we run it for a while so let's fill it again let's just dump it right here and see what we got leave the water running we're just trying to do some different tests with it see what we can get out of it i mean it seems to be [Music] draining pretty good right i'm not seeing any kind of issue with this yeah i'm not seeing anything [Music] so okay so i think i found the issue if this thing gets bumped just the littlest bit you can watch it move it's actually closing right now and then it starts to fill up so weird so i mean i guess if you get a bunch of debris i guess if you would get some food or something stuck in there it would eventually just shut and then it starts filling up that is weird and it's just the littlest nuisance right and then all of a sudden it's closed and your sink is filling up with water well i think he has made it effective part because that does not make any sense to me at all yeah you're not going to want to sit there and try to figure out exactly where it is and you just watch it it's like slowly turning as the water goes down there and eventually it's just gonna stop up it's so weird okay if i'm annoyed at doing this for like an hour trying to get this thing to do its thing in a perfect little storm then i know somebody else's these guys obviously were they put a rubber band on it it was a good little fix right they shouldn't have to though keaney we might need a little help on this one all right i really hope you guys enjoyed the video i don't necessarily know that you want to buy this product that is a weird storm right this is the troubleshooting process this is what plumbers face sometimes when they come to your house it can be super annoying it can be very timely it can cost you a bunch of money and it sucks but this is real scenario these are the kind of things that service plumbers get called out for all the time so maybe this is something that you're dealing with you're like man i don't know why it's done this well maybe this video helps you i really hope it does we're just trying to help people i ran across this weird situation so i said let's pull out the camera i really hope the video helps if you guys could please click the like button subscribe to the channel we would greatly appreciate it we really are just trying to help um social media is a great way to do that and we'd love to have you keep coming back thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon