Cleaning shower drain?

EagerLearner

Hi all, shower drain draining really slowly - tried a couple tablespoons of soda crystals with warm water but no good.

I have bicarb of soda - what to do with it?

Anything but pay a fortune fo Mr Muscle :rolleyes:



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greyteam1959

If its shower drain likely to be hair.
Lots of people on here use hair remover........shove it down the drain leave it a while then run water down it.
Never tried it myself (!!) but seems a good cheap idea to me

Cazza

Could try Caustic Soda, but read the back or the packet carefully as it can be quite nasty!

EagerLearner

Hmmm, hair remover costs a fair bit too - have some, but loathe to waste it... looks like a squirt, leave a while, then pour hot water down - will give it a go! Thanks x

janetmw

A couple of tricks I have tried:

If you can get to the shower tray before all the water has drained away, use a sink plunger over the drain hole. The extra force exerted can shift the 'gunk'.

Also, with similar effect, fill a bucket with hot soapy water and pour the water directly over the drain hole from as great a height as possible ( I stand on a stool). Aim to keep a strong steady flow directly over the hole for as long as possible.

Both these methods could be described as cheap and OS!

HTH

Janet

razra

Try using a handful of bicarb and half a cup of vinegar, put plug in and leave for half an hour then flush through with boiling water.

Ive used that when my kitchen sink blocked and its like a mini explosion LOL but it works for me

dannahaz

Caustic soda will clear it very quickly, cheaply and easily. You can buy it from hardware shops, also places like B&Q.

Read the instructions carefully. You add caustic soda to water, NEVER the other way round. This is because water causes the reaction, and the whole mixture heats up. You just pour it down the plughole, come back 20 mins later and rinse.

As the name suggests, it's caustic, so you should wear rubber gloves when using it.

But it isn't anything to be afraid of, you just need to folloow the instructions.

lil_me

Hair remover, reuse it, after you've used it on legs etc scrape off and put down drain. You can usually get it in the £1 shops.

Caustic soda I have used in the past, another £1 shop buy.

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lil_me wrote: »

Hair remover, reuse it, after you've used it on legs etc scrape off and put down drain. You can usually get it in the £1 shops.

What a brilliant idea lil_me!


Eagerlearner, There are a couple of older threads that might help too:

Unblocking drain blocked with Hair!

Unblock bath drain

Blocked plughole in bath

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lil_me

Some may think urgh but it works, stick the plug back in before you shower off lets it work for a bit. Or could rinse off elsewhere/with a flannel. All goes down the same hole doesn't it eventually

Can get those little drain hole covers to catch it but I keep loosing them when I take them out to empty the bath.

redsquirrel80

lil_me wrote: »

Hair remover, reuse it, after you've used it on legs etc scrape off and put down drain. You can usually get it in the £1 shops.

Has anyone tried this with the stuff that's designed to stay on while you're in the shower? Got some left (brings me out in a rash ) and my shower drain could do with a clear-out, but not sure how well it'll work if it's meant to be water resistant?