Bath draining very slowly

Nicoll

If you don't have a plunger just hold a cloth over the overflow hole to block the air and put a sponge over the plug hole and keep pulling it up quickly like a plunger, don't this will work if it's blocked with hair but this has always worked for me on the kitchen sink.

Tish_P

We had this problem - a plunger plus lots of washing soda got through the blockage in the end. It's not "chemical-free" (nothing is!) but it avoids the use of caustic soda which really is dangerous stuff.

Then get a plughole trap thingy to catch the hair before it gets all the way down!

Penelope_Penguin

uolypool wrote: »

Hi we had this problem not that many weeks ago, tried putting bicarb then vinegar down leaving it for about an hour then running the hot tap but only unblocked it a little , in the end I got a plunger from the pound shop and this shifted it in seconds.:D

Don't waste your money using bicarb AND vinegar; they react together and fizz, but this has little, if any, cleaning effect

OP, if you don;t want to use a chemical unblocker, a sink plunger is the way to go

I'll add this to the existing thread to give you more ideas.

bratz81

Morning all

well, using a coat hanger and pulled up a lot of yucky gloop from the plughole, and also tried the bicarb and vinegar advice. Seems to have cleared a LOT of the stuff out, but the plughole still isn't fully draining as well as it should.
Think a plunger is the way to go next!