Drain Clearing Tool
Intro: Drain Clearing Tool
An entire instructable in a single image...
If our kitchen sink gets blocked, the best thing to do is to remove the u-bend and dig out the obstruction.
I can't do that with the shower drain, though. because it's under the shower tray.
Fortunately, the nature of the blockage is a lot more predictable in the shower, especially when family members have long hair.
I needed to clear the drain (again) yesterday, but rather than muck about with knitting needles and long-nosed pliers, I quickly created this little fishing hook from a large paper-clip (although any stiff wire would have done the job).
It was so quick, in fact, that it took a lot less time to make and use the tool that it did to write up this Instructable.
Such is life.
If our kitchen sink gets blocked, the best thing to do is to remove the u-bend and dig out the obstruction.
I can't do that with the shower drain, though. because it's under the shower tray.
Fortunately, the nature of the blockage is a lot more predictable in the shower, especially when family members have long hair.
I needed to clear the drain (again) yesterday, but rather than muck about with knitting needles and long-nosed pliers, I quickly created this little fishing hook from a large paper-clip (although any stiff wire would have done the job).
It was so quick, in fact, that it took a lot less time to make and use the tool that it did to write up this Instructable.
Such is life.
6 Comments
jon_chalk 11 years ago
Kiteman 11 years ago
iceng 12 years ago
A
Kiteman 12 years ago
lemonie 12 years ago
I really did expect a picture of this with some black, drippy "skeg" hanging off of it... Can you recreate that?
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Kiteman 12 years ago
Please, no...