How to unclog a shower drain?

Remove as much as possible with a snake or drain cleaning tool. Pour ½ cup baking soda then ½ cup white vinegar in the drain and cover, letting sit for 20 minutes. Boil water, remove cover, and pour water down the drain. You may have to repeat the process.

This gizmo can possibly unclog drains and vacuum hoses, toilets etc. It's a narrow flexible metal rod with a claw on one end and plunger on the other. Mechanics use them to retrieve fallen screws etc. Best $12 ever spent. It is called by different names: retractable claw retriever stick, snake and cable aid, grabber pickup tool.

If possible remove the drain cover. Pull out as much hair & gunk as possible using a zip tool, needle nosed pliers, etc. Then, yes, baking soda down the drain and white vinegar on top of it. It will fizz and make "smoke" but this is merely the acid and base neutralizing each other. HOT water afterward.

Then, pour about 1/4-1/2 cup blue Dawn down the drain and let sit for 1/2 hour+. Boil a large pot of water and pour that over the blue Dawn and it should be clear. If not, repeat.

Yes. I pour baking soda and vinegar down all my drains at least once a month followed by hot water. It helps keep the drains open and cleaner smelling.

Adding to the above suggestions I recently had a stubborn clog. I did the baking soda and vinegar and hot water. My addition was dish soap squeezed about 2 table spoons and kosher salt.

The salt scrubs and the soap degreased and slid the stuff down.

Hi there, I usually pour in 1/4 cup of baking soda and then add 1/2 cup of vinegar. I let that sit for about an hour and then flush with really hot water.

How to Unclog Your Drain With Baking Soda and Vinegar

1. Pour a pot of boiling hot water down your drain.
2. Dump in about 1/2 c. baking soda. ...
3. Then, pour a mixture of 1 c. vinegar and 1. ...
4. Cover with a drain plug (to keep the reaction down below the drain surface) if you have one and let it sit for 5-10 minutes.

A drain snake.

I have never achieved good results from chemical drain cleaners and if you fill the pipes with a caustic solution and have to disassemble pipes to remove a clog things could get ugly. Some differentiate between packaged drain cleaners like Drano or Mr. Plumber and "home remedies". Dumping vinegar and baking soda down your drain is even less likely to work.

Lowe's sells a skinny little gadget for this purpose for about $3.00- $4.00 . Mine is yellow, about 18 inches long with little barbs on the side. You wiggle it down the drain, then pull up; the hair catches on the barbs. Might take 2 or 3 tries to clear it all, but this is a quick, easy, and cheap solution. :)

Try these: 8 Ways to Unclog a Shower Drain

1. Pour boiling water down the drain.
2. Try using a plunger.
3. Use baking soda and vinegar (the natural alternative to chemicals)!
4. Take the drain cover off and pull out the clog by hand.
5. Use a hook.
6. Use a plumbers’ snake (also sometimes called a "toilet jack" or an "electric eel").
7. Use chemicals.

Call a plumber, if you have to.

Pour about 1 teaspoon of Draino crystals into the drain. let it sit for 30 minutes or so then flush with hot water.

Pure LYE cheap at Ace Hardware,online,hardware stores works quick,and well also need to use needle nose pliers to pull any hairballs/wads up from drain that are stuck in opening(yeah be prepared it'll look like drowned dead mouse) if you can see it around opening of drain this needs done----get yourself a drain screen/strainers of somekind to prevent everything from going down drain into pipes

Lowes hardware: Zip It. Plastic rod with teeth. Follow instructions. Inexpensive. Wear gloves and have garbage bag ready. Then, baking soda and vinegar to help dissapate odors.

Blockages in bath or shower drain is usually hair. When this happens, we pour bleach into the drain and let it sit for 24 hrs before we take our next shower. Run hot water down the drain and behold, it will run smoothly and freely. This has never failed to work.

We solved our problem with the slow drainage from our shower drain. Using Dish detergent about 1/2 cup then waiting 5 minutes added very hot (almost boiling) water, it cleared itself out.

Hello Anna, hope this helps you out, it have 5 ways to unclog a drain

https://bungalow.com/articles/five-easy-ways-to-unclog-your-shower-drain

BUY A dRAIN UNCLOGING LIQUID AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. OR use drain unblocking brushes.

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You could try to unclog with a wire with a hook on it , twist it as you bring it up to collect hair etc.

Long stick or wire , push to bottom snd the swirl arround to pick up hair etc. If you can get hold of the long handled brushes for sinks from the DIY store, they are even better.

How to Unclog a Shower Drain

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Get a drain snake at the hardware or home improvement store.

Home Depot sells a small flexible plastic tool made for this job. You can try that first. https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-20-in-Hair-Snake-90830/324601746