Purchase a hand snake from your local hardware store. Remove the overflow cover (this is round silver cover with two screws sometimes one located below the spout where the water comes out). Run some wate into the bathtub this will let you know when you hit the clog. Begin feeding the cable from the snake through the overflow pushing it in until it stops. Once it stops you’re going to spin the snake clockwise to feed more cable in. Stop, take the lock off, pull some more cable from the reel or spool a little at a time, and put the lock back on. Spin the snake clockwise. Repeat until the water standing in the bathtub rushes away. Reinstall the overflow cover. Rinse tub.
The above instructions pretty much covers it but have you tried your toilet plunger? My shower clogs up over time and I use the plunger to push the clog out. Of course I have to do that on a regular basis as hair builds up fairly quickly but if I keep up with it it works every time.
Try pouring 1 cup of baking soda and 1 cup of white vinegar. It will bubble up like a science project. Also a pan of boiling hot water sometimes helps.
If this is a bathtub drain, here is one thing you can try. Get a Phillips head screwdriver. Put your fingers under the top of the (attached) stopper and feel back to the support stem. Run your fingers around that stem until you find the screw that holds the stopper in place. Take your screwdriver and remove that screw being careful not to drop it down the drain when removing it. Once your stopper is out, then you can unscrew the support stem (carefully again so you don’t lose it). If you have a bunch of hair wrapped around and in that opening, you can use a flat head screwdriver, some pliers, scissors, or whatever you can find to use leverage and get that awful funk out of there. No chemicals or special tools. There is a little plastic tool you can get that has a handle and a long skinny plastic piece with barbs on it that you can push down into the clog and pull up to get it out. It’s pretty cheap but I’d try just using household stuff you already have first. Once you get that clog out, consider replacing the stopper you removed with a mushroom drain stopper. I haven’t tried it yet because we just moved into this house, but it is my plan to replace my bathtub drain with that because I shed a lot of hair and stop up bath drains like crazy. I just heard of it recently and just haven’t had the chance to try it yet. And btw beware of using a plunger in your bathtub drain. I did that once and blew the seal on the commode. Cost us a lot of money to fix water damage, replace toilet seal, AND deal with clog that was still there.
You have to routinely remove hair from the drain to keep in smooth draining. Home Depot sells a product Zip It that will do the job. Its a long rigid plastic stick that you push down the drain then pull up and you will be amazed of the hair build up. Then pour vinegar, baking soda down drain and wait ten mins then follow with boiling water to flush it.
Purchase a hand snake from your local hardware store. Remove the overflow cover (this is round silver cover with two screws sometimes one located below the spout where the water comes out). Run some wate into the bathtub this will let you know when you hit the clog. Begin feeding the cable from the snake through the overflow pushing it in until it stops. Once it stops you’re going to spin the snake clockwise to feed more cable in. Stop, take the lock off, pull some more cable from the reel or spool a little at a time, and put the lock back on. Spin the snake clockwise. Repeat until the water standing in the bathtub rushes away. Reinstall the overflow cover. Rinse tub.
The above instructions pretty much covers it but have you tried your toilet plunger? My shower clogs up over time and I use the plunger to push the clog out. Of course I have to do that on a regular basis as hair builds up fairly quickly but if I keep up with it it works every time.
Try pouring 1 cup of baking soda and 1 cup of white vinegar. It will bubble up like a science project. Also a pan of boiling hot water sometimes helps.
If this is a bathtub drain, here is one thing you can try. Get a Phillips head screwdriver. Put your fingers under the top of the (attached) stopper and feel back to the support stem. Run your fingers around that stem until you find the screw that holds the stopper in place. Take your screwdriver and remove that screw being careful not to drop it down the drain when removing it. Once your stopper is out, then you can unscrew the support stem (carefully again so you don’t lose it). If you have a bunch of hair wrapped around and in that opening, you can use a flat head screwdriver, some pliers, scissors, or whatever you can find to use leverage and get that awful funk out of there. No chemicals or special tools. There is a little plastic tool you can get that has a handle and a long skinny plastic piece with barbs on it that you can push down into the clog and pull up to get it out. It’s pretty cheap but I’d try just using household stuff you already have first. Once you get that clog out, consider replacing the stopper you removed with a mushroom drain stopper. I haven’t tried it yet because we just moved into this house, but it is my plan to replace my bathtub drain with that because I shed a lot of hair and stop up bath drains like crazy. I just heard of it recently and just haven’t had the chance to try it yet. And btw beware of using a plunger in your bathtub drain. I did that once and blew the seal on the commode. Cost us a lot of money to fix water damage, replace toilet seal, AND deal with clog that was still there.
You have to routinely remove hair from the drain to keep in smooth draining. Home Depot sells a product Zip It that will do the job. Its a long rigid plastic stick that you push down the drain then pull up and you will be amazed of the hair build up. Then pour vinegar, baking soda down drain and wait ten mins then follow with boiling water to flush it.