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Clear Clogged Drains with a Flexible Barbed Tool

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Mystery Tool Bin Monday: Tools Not For Me

What happens here

The third tool is a flexible, barbed plastic strip designed to clear clogs from drains. To use it, carefully feed the narrow, flexible end of the tool down the drain opening, pushing it past any pop-up stoppers and into the P-trap (the U-shaped pipe beneath the sink). The tool is specifically designed to snake through the bends of the plumbing. Once you feel resistance or believe you've reached the clog, slowly pull the tool back up and out of the drain. The small, sharp barbs along its length will effectively snag and pull out accumulated hair, soap scum, and other debris, clearing the blockage and restoring proper drainage. Remember to dispose of the retrieved, often unpleasant, material properly.

Goal: Remove clogs from drains

Tools and materials

  • Clogged Drain

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at the paintbrush cover.com that was item number to Let's dig out one more a mystery item so at these shows that I go to like the national hardwood show they don't sell just painting tools so I'm going to introduce you to something that you know is not a painting tool I've actually used one of these a simp similar item to this so this is just going to go you down in your drain you're going to feed it down into the drain and it's got like these Fish Hook type things on it and you're going to feed it down in the drain and then you're going to pull it back up and that's about you know the length of say your typical average little drain in your bathroom your drain tub it goes down and there's um a P trap down there so it's kind of of a U-shaped thing and that's what keeps you know um water sets in it and that's what keeps the smell from the sewer from coming up and coming into your house that P trap sometimes gets full of hair um you have a little lever that you know pops up the popup that you know makes it so you can fill your sink up that thing could get hair stuck in it if you feed this thing down in there down into the PE trap and pull it back out all the hair and crap is going to um get stuck to that and it's going to come pulling right out and I got to say I've done that before with a device similar to this and it is pretty nasty what it pulls out of your sink it's a quick simple and easy effective way to clear a drain that's three

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