Clear a clogged drain with SCIENCE!!!

Step 5 REFRIGERATE!

Last, put he Baking SODA in your refrigerator; it keeps food fresh and hairless (always a good thing...)

Comments

[wickedsmilee]

Alka Seltzer tablets work too.

[allovera pérez]

OMG! I did it and it worked perfectly. My sink runs smoothly now and the process also cleaned a stain that was driving me crazy!
5 stars!

[aphesia]

hells yes! but have you tried the NaOH and H2O method? really burns through....everything.

[bettbee]

Yeah but instead of robbing the school chem lab cupboard you could just buy drain cleaner which is basically NaOH anyway. (Pun intended, couldn't resist, sorry.)

[aaronscottaugustinhotmail.com]

you obviously didnt read the instructable its VINNEGAR and BAKING POWDER! (lol i know its soda)

[bettbee]

Aaron of the long name, are you responding to me? I was responding to aphesia who suggested NaOH and H2O. Which drain cleaner is already made of. My comment implies your comment, LOL

[aaronscottaugustinhotmail.com]

huh im sorry you lost me man

[jhenaghan]

Would this work with a clogged (slow flushing) toliet?

[chuckvideo]

Toilets are a completely different beast. There's so much water involved with a flushing toilet that I doubt the baking soda/vinegar solution would work at all. Also, the pressure built up would simply blow up and out the bowl. Yuck!

[thepaul1993]

use a bucket, 9lieters at once, or a high pressure hose

[lasersage]

Probably not. Toilet drains tend to hold so much water that it will dilute anything you put down. That said, don't go sticking down super harsh chemicals like caustic soda as it is capable of stripping the glaze from the soil pipes. Then nothing will ever flow well again. The source of most toilet blockage isn't the toilet but is usually further down the drain. Try lifting the manhole in your garden and seeing what's flowing there. Drain cleaning me are about £100 for 15 mins work, drain rods are about £25 and you can use them again and again. Just wash your hands really well after playing in a drain :)

[Derin]

what?i never heard such things,you americans use soil pipes?here pvc is used till it goes into the sewer,which is concrete pipe

[lasersage]

I'm not American! I live in UK and am English and a soil pipe only refers to what it takes, it gives no description of what its made of. Soil means poo in this case, like "oh no, I've soiled my pants" :) PVC might be the way for new builds, but I live in a 1930s built house and our drain consists of a PVC U bend behind the loo, PVC (or maybe ABS) pipe down the outside of our house into the ground, then in the ground its multiple sections of glazed concrete/cermic type stuff. Like teracota looking. Because its a relatively old house, some of the sections don't quite line up anymore, so it can clog, but a good poke with a drain rod and chucking a bucket of water down usually sees off any trouble.

[jridley]

Old construction, or old building codes, like in Chicago, where PVC is pretty much outlawed (though I'm not sure about for waste pipes).

[brandan]

why not just cover the drain after dropping the baking soda and vinegar down?

[cfuse]

Because giving the process some encouragement with a plunger is far more satisfying - mechanical + chemical FTW.

[fultron89]

cuz my goal was to raise the hair to the surface, so I could throw it away without getting a snake.

[guchdog]

Neat, I'll have to try that out.