How to unclog a slow kitchen drain

Cha20089813
by Cha20089813
  4 answers
  • Hor15200653 Hor15200653 on Sep 11, 2017

    Pour two cups of bleach and wait a full day, next try running cold water

  • William William on Sep 11, 2017

    Have a damp cloth ready. If a double bowl sink have two. Pour about 1/3 box of baking soda down the drain. Then pour some vinegar down the drain. Immediately cover the drain with the cloth and keep in place with your hand.. The pressure of the reaction should push the clog through. If a double bowl sink cover one drain with the cloth and hold down before pouring in the vinegar in the other.

  • PJ Wise PJ Wise on Sep 11, 2017

    Yep, I've used William's suggestion multiple times. This helps "clean" the usual gunk from normal daily use of the sinks, basins and shower drains and pipes.

  • Nancy Turner Nancy Turner on Sep 12, 2017

    Just pour around a third to half cup of baking soda down the drain. I start with about a cup of vinegar. Let it foam for about ten to fifteen minutes, you can put a little more vinegar down at this point if you have some baking soda left by the drain opening. Boil a gallon of water and pour it right down the drain to help rinse everything down the pipes. The vinegar has great grease cutting with the baking soda. The vinegar has excellent antibacterial and antifungal properties so it will help get rid of any bacteria, mold, mildew, anything that will build up in pipes. You can use it on both metal and plastic pipes. If it is real bad, you may have to do it more than once. Try to do it when there is no water in the sink. If this doesn't work you may have to have the sink pipe rotorootered, as the clog may be way down in the pipes. That is what happened to me. The clog was way down the pipes. The plumber was very impressed at how clean the pipe was though. The drain pipe for the kitchen sink runs down the basement wall and has an access that he opened to see if the clog was above that, and he said you could eat off that pipe leading to the sink! He said he would have to remember that treatment to let other people know about it.