Smelly Drain (hair chemicals!!)

Fire_Fox

I have treated my hair twice in the last week with Colour B4 Extra Strength which removes permanent dye without bleaching. The chemical cocktail stinks like a combination of rotten eggs and perm lotion. _pale_ Can post an ingredients list if it would be helpful.

My 'eau de toilette' is now topnotes of cannabis, with basenotes of rotten eggs! :rotfl: Have aired as best I can (neither bathroom nor adjacent hall have windows), left the extractor on (only vents into the ceiling void), and washed my hair once more (in total fifteen minutes rinsing!). The bath plughole still stinks.

Is there anything inert but fragrant can I put down the drain? It doesn't seem wise to use strong acids, alkalis or bleach as I have no idea what reaction they will have with the chemical cocktail already down there!! :eek: Just to complicate matters the drain is somewhat clogged with hair, which could be holding onto the smell. I have previously used drain cleaner to unblock it, which worked relatively well but left the bath leaking slightly.

DVardysShadow

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Is there anything inert but fragrant can I put down the drain?

Loads of stuff, but none that will do any good. Use Sodium Hydroxide [soda crystals]. Your problem is not your hair care products alone - it is gunge stuck in your drains either reacting with the product or retaining it. Use Sodium Hydroxide to get the gunge shifted.

Mik77

Try some my muscle drain cleaner, the one in a silver bottle. Leave it for a few hours then wash down with boiling water, all of the gunge in the pipes should be washed away and smell should go

CharlieBilly

Another vote for soda crystals, cheap, usually effective, not harsh drain cleaner

tyllwyd

Have you tried one of those long flexible wire thingies that you push down into the drain to catch hold of hair clogs so that you can pull them out? Then you might have more luck flushing through the sink with just hot water. (But I'd be careful handling any hair you might pull out, it could still be holding onto some of the nasty chemicals.)

27col

If I had any hair I am not sure that I would be putting the chemicals described above anywhere near it.

Fire_Fox

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Loads of stuff, but none that will do any good. Use Sodium Hydroxide [soda crystals]. Your problem is not your hair care products alone - it is gunge stuck in your drains either reacting with the product or retaining it. Use Sodium Hydroxide to get the gunge shifted.

Thanks: you make a good point! I do have some soda crystals, but the bag says sodium carbonate decahydrate: is that sufficiently inert to be added to the chemical soup? I previously used two bottles of a drain cleaner based on sodium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite (bleach?), and do have a spare but too scared to use it.

Mik77 wrote: »

Try some my muscle drain cleaner, the one in a silver bottle. Leave it for a few hours then wash down with boiling water, all of the gunge in the pipes should be washed away and smell should go

Thank you for taking the time to reply. As above, am worried more chemicals will react with the evilness I applied to my head without due regard for the plumbing. :rotfl:

tyllwyd wrote: »

Have you tried one of those long flexible wire thingies that you push down into the drain to catch hold of hair clogs so that you can pull them out? Then you might have more luck flushing through the sink with just hot water. (But I'd be careful handling any hair you might pull out, it could still be holding onto some of the nasty chemicals.)

Good idea thank you!