Thrift drain cleaner

[Duffyjr]

I seen this stuff in action for the first time and in twenty minutes he had my bathroom sink draining better than I've ever seen it drain. He says the main problem is it's an old house with inch and quarter pipes, he said they use inch and half now a days.

My questions is how hard on the pipes is this stuff?

 

[earlyre]

if its like the stuff i bought the other day, it's probably mostly sulfuric acid....

 

[earlyre]

i stand corrected... a quick google found their website,
http://thriftmarketing.com/index.html
it's non acidic. it's alkaline. sds calls out sodium hydroxide., aka LYE, or caustic soda if you prefer..

 

[JLawrence08648]

Most bathroom drains clog from hair, no stuff will dissolve hair.

 

[4WD]

Age will

 

[meadows]

Hair is protein, and sulfuric acid will disolve it. One of the girls working for me got sulfuric acid in her hair, and dissolved it right off of her head.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Hair and Cooking Grease are the two biggest culprits of clogged drains.

 

[danez_yoda]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXHgxmqdWEw

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by JLawrence08648
Most bathroom drains clog from hair, no stuff will dissolve hair.


Not true. There are a few chemicals that will disolve hair. Straight bleach in the drain and given up to a few hours to work will completely dissolve the hair but it's important to pour enough into the drain that it flushes all the water out of the P-Trap the drain is connected to. This was an old sales tip we used to use at Gym's when I sold chemicals to show them we knew what we were talking about.

Especially if you can get the institutional grade bleach used in food processing environments over the household bleach which is more concentrated. That stuff will clear hair in short order but the other stuff will to, just takes longer. Bleach is a great oxidizer.

Results proving it works at 2:40

 

[andyd]

My first kitchen leak was a section of 1 1/4 copper that was pinholed from de-clogging a backed up sink with lye. I dont use it and I think the replacement sched 40 PVC isn't affected if I did. I try not to use stuff that kills the bacteria in the cess pools.

 

[Al]

From what I have seen a specific cleaner will work for hair or grease..not both. That may have changed.

 

[NO2]

Hot water will clear fats and congealed soap from a drain. We always dump our electric kettle water down the slower drain before bed and never have any clogs.

 

[Shannow]

Day after we moved into the new house, the kitchen sink clogged...2" PVC runs probably 20 feet through the slab to the bathroom and the full sized drains.

Mechanically unblocked it...multiple times...no one EVER scrapes the plates into the sink, or washes scraps...put a strainer in the plug hole and collect amazing amounts of crap...that NEVER were there before.

I use an enzyme regularly, plus run scalding hot water through it.

Waiting for bathroom stuff.

That's a really good video Stevie.

I always knew that Caustic was good for fats (reason it feels so slippery is that it takes the fats from your skin an makes a soap, already impregnated into your skin.

Our version of bleach has quite an active component of caustic in it as well, so not sure it's not the caustic in this case...regardless, my shower drains (three of the 4 of us have long hair) will be getting regular bleach bombs.

 

[Duffyjr]

This was the bathroom sink so, hair, tooth paste. soap. It didn't work in 60 seconds like the website says but it did work. It wasn't completely clogged but it was draining slow enough it would take half hour to drain a half full sink. My neighbor is the one that helped and is a plumber, he said the most important part is the hot water and would work on the kitchen sink as well. He also said once every couple months would keep it clog free.

Thanks for the video StevieC, the music was great, a little Benny Hill followed by some Dragnet

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by Shannow
Day after we moved into the new house, the kitchen sink clogged...2" PVC runs probably 20 feet through the slab to the bathroom and the full sized drains.

Mechanically unblocked it...multiple times...no one EVER scrapes the plates into the sink, or washes scraps...put a strainer in the plug hole and collect amazing amounts of crap...that NEVER were there before.

I use an enzyme regularly, plus run scalding hot water through it.

Waiting for bathroom stuff.

That's a really good video Stevie.

I always knew that Caustic was good for fats (reason it feels so slippery is that it takes the fats from your skin an makes a soap, already impregnated into your skin.

Our version of bleach has quite an active component of caustic in it as well, so not sure it's not the caustic in this case...regardless, my shower drains (three of the 4 of us have long hair) will be getting regular bleach bombs.

When I worked at the condo's and they used to clean the risers and stacks regularly they would always run hot water from the highest point for about 1/2 hour down the drain before commencing cleaning to soften the grease and wash as much away before getting to the harder stuff with the mechanized drain snake. Having had to escort them to suites where the resident wasn't home I had time to chat with them and I was told that if I was to run the hot water tap for 10 full minutes into the drain to pre-warm it and then fill the sinks to their tops with hot water and let it drain down on a monthly schedule or so it should keep the build up in the drains clear. I have been doing so and have had 0 issues in my house. We also have a back-flow preventer (our area is susceptible to sewer overflow) on our main drain-line and it seems to keep this spotlessly clean as monitored during yearly inspection to make sure it's working properly for insurance reasons.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by Duffyjr
This was the bathroom sink so, hair, tooth paste. soap. It didn't work in 60 seconds like the website says but it did work. It wasn't completely clogged but it was draining slow enough it would take half hour to drain a half full sink. My neighbor is the one that helped and is a plumber, he said the most important part is the hot water and would work on the kitchen sink as well. He also said once every couple months would keep it clog free.

Thanks for the video StevieC, the music was great, a little Benny Hill followed by some Dragnet

LOL, oh Benny Hill.