Cleaning shower drain?

whobiggs

You can do an awfull lot of thing with Bicarb and vinegar!:j

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Lorian

My tip is different to everyones elses, and completely free. doesn't always work first time though. it's a variation on using a plunger.

Remove any hair catcher from the drain.

While showering keep one heel over the drain until there is an inch or so of water in the tray.

Pump heel up and down on hole, to work a bit like a plunger. Typically after a few goes the gunk will move and the drain will clear.

Or if you are unlucky the drain pipe will come off

checkmate

There is usually a trap at the top of the drain that prevents anything large falling in and that usually collects hair and can get quite bunged up. Every now and again, I take a small piece of sandpaper, fold it lengthways to make a small cylinder and twirl it in each of the holes, taking off the hair that the sandpaper collects from each. If the hair is removed regularly, it can't block the drain.

JuliusCaesar

Use caustic soda (not washing soda or baking soda) - but take care.

judi_coven

This isn't a tip on how to clear it, but it is a tip on how to prevent it happening in the future -
Both my daughter and I have thick, long hair. Cleaning it out of the shower drain was a pain. I realised that covering the drain with a simple net to catch the hair would reduce the problem. I cut up the net bags that lemons and oranges come in - this type of net has large holes and allows the water to drain out but collects most of the hair. I cut the net into a size larger than the drain hole. Depending on your type of drain, you may want to find some way to secure it with a bit of wire or something - you really don't want to risk the net going down the drain. After the shower, I pick up the whole net, with hair and soap suds and all, and put it in the bin. Simple and free!

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I had a good root around the sink plug hole after piling some bicarb on top then pouring some white vinigar down there ,fizzed quite a bit and then when it cleared I had a jolly good root down with an old crochet hook and hoiked out loads of gunk which was quite revolting but amazing how much stuff was down there then did the bicarb and vinegar again and now my plughole gurgles beautifully and the water drains ten times faster I think I shall do this about every 10 days from now on to keep it clear of the horrible black grot that came put :):)
May even try my shower as well That tip about the netting was brilliant for those with long hair well done, good way to use up those old net bags that fruit comes in I usued scrunch them up and use as scourers

RMN05

There seems to be a lot guidance that involves a whole lot of faffing about.

In my experience, waste outlets in shower trays have a simple lift off cover, which then reveals a cup-like trap, within which all of the extraneous bits and pieces gets caught up,. This cup-like trap is also usually easily removable, so that it can be removed, emptied into a bin, cleaned/rinsed and returned. Cover replaced, job done.

Mind you, if this concern relates to a bath waste, then that is a different problem altogether, and the advice about one of those mini-colander kitchen sink catchers, is probably the best advice going.

welshmoneylover

I shoved a bottle of sugar soap down mine and it worked a treat.

IDProtected

Mix the soda crystals with some salt before putting it down the drain and adding the vinegar; the salt does a bit of "scrubbing" on the way down!

Neil49

Get a wooden skewer, such as the type used in fancy burger bars to hold everything together, and at one end use a sharp knife to make a number of downward cuts into the wood to form a number of barbs.

Stick the barbed end down the plughole, twist the stick around. When you lift it out you will find that the hairs will be attached to the barbs.