Unblocking drain blocked with Hair!

heatherw_01

I had this problem a while ago. I ended up having to take off the ubend and pull out the hair. Quick, easy and free, but a little messy.

Bertville

Be brave and just use your fingers, it's fairly easy to get out.

Justamum

Someone told me yesterday that a good way of clearing out a plughole which is blocked up with hair is to squirt some Immac down it. Logical really I suppose as it's designed to dissolve hair. Now I must get some in just for that . . .

Shez

seems an expensive solution - why not just put cheap bleach down instead? thats what I do and what plumbers advise.

lilac_lady

If you fit a sink strainer over the plughole you'll solve any future problem with hair blocking the plughole. It'a amazing how much hair it traps.

overlykeensaver

you can put soda crystals down your plug holes and then rinse and that is supposed to clear them.

all_change

Hi -

I use one of these - poke it down the plug hole, grab the wodge of disgusting hair and pull! Works a treat but not for the faint hearted!

http://toolmonger.com/2006/07/29/flexible-grabber-tool/

Costs about £1 or £2 from any Diy shop and useful for loads of other things too - like retrieving dropped things behind heavy furniture!

M.E.

We use a crochet hook.
Failing that a piece of coat hanger with the end bent.

moanymoany

Try to get out what you can, then put about 2 mugfuls of soda crystals and pour about the same amount of white vinegar or boiling water down. This will be just enough to sit in the U bend, right where you want it.

Put the plug into the drain and leave it for about 10 minutes. Fill the bath half full from the hot tap then pull the plug.

Dioritt

Bicarb and vinegar usually works pretty well although I'd definitely try to get as much as possible out first using M.E.'s crochet hook or coat hanger method.

The bicarb and vinegar will fizz up but don't worry about that. Leave it for about an hour then pour boiling (it has to be BOILING, not just hot) water down it. I generally use about a mug full of each.

I try to keep the plug holes clear by putting bicarb/vinegar down them weekly but with a teenage daughter who NEVER thinks to remove any hair from the bath when she's finished, I invariably come back to a build up whenever I go away.

Sharon J