Go ahead take day off from work,spend 40 or 50 bucks on junk then call a drain cleaning professional after hours since you spent all day monkeying with it and he can clean the original blockage plus what you have put in it ! Lol
Hey! Good to know, I'll have to write down the name. We use a product called 'Scoot' and it's pretty effective much in the same wayMatt30 said:I have finally found a drain cleaner thats worth a damn. I am not a regular user, im a fan of using the snake. But last week i came across 2 urinals that had so much calcium build up and scale in the traps that my snake couldnt bust it up on its own. I tried this chemical cleaner called Liquid Lightning. While it didnt solve the problem on its own, it made the scale and build up brittle enough that i could penetrate it with the snake and get it clear. Kind of like a tag team effect and it didnt harm the porcelain.
Might be corrosive to copper but very few houses have copper/brass drain pipes.
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Most household drains are composed of PVCs.
Thanks Matt30 and Mr_David! I appreciate your excellent advice and concern.
After a full day of near boiling water added every hour from my wood stove, with only minimal improvement, I just added Pequa for a 3 hour soak. Then afterward tonite, another hot water flush. If there is no significant improvement, tomorrow morning, I'll again fully disassemble and take your fine advice. Thanks again!
Here was a plumber for many decades, with a great reputation in my town, telling me something which, if it works, would erase a significant portion of his business (as he admitted.) He told me none of his customers who had required rooting every year or so, then followed the vinegar treatment, had required root service thereafter. There are several possible explanations for his behavior, but, applying Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is that he's telling the truth, and it does work.Many folks I know throw gallons of vinegar down their drains on a weekly basis. They believe it keeps the pipes smelling fresh. I think you are just throwing good money down the drain. Tree roots will always go to a water source, with vinegar or not. Yeahs ago, I had a plumber request I dig out my main line and throw (10) 50 pounds of rock salt around the perimeter of the pipes, but it probably would have been cheaper just to get rid of the clay pipe and replace it with a full length ABS pipe, where no root penetration could attack it.
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