Despite the fact that the network has a huge number of ways to eliminate blockages in sewer pipes, checking their effectiveness suggests that with a real result they have little in common.
Someone generally writes such game that plumbers grab their heads and sound the alarm. However, the vast majority of this is done solely for hype, noise from nothing, to attract readers and the number of comments.
I do not belong to this type of bloggers and I check the most decent ways with an experienced plumber whose work experience is approaching 20 years. I bring to your attention the results of his research.
Common cleaning methods offered by so-called "professionals"
- 1. The advice read on the Internet is striking in its originality. For example, they offer to clean the blockage formed in the sink with ordinary washing powder.
The technology is simple: laundry detergent is poured into the sink and the pipe that comes out of it in the evening and they wait all night. The question arises, how can powder be poured into a blockage if the water level is higher than the blockage level?
"Specialists" from the Internet claim that the blockage will go away with the water. However, this is a scam. The blockage will not go anywhere, despite the fact that you will drain tons of water. Why? The answer is simple, in ordinary washing powder there are simply no active chemicals that help dissolve excess fat.
- 2. There are also such tips, for example, related to vinegar and soda. It is necessary to pour vinegar and pour soda into the neck of the sink (and close it), as a result of which a powerful chemical reaction will begin in the pipe, physically destroying the blockage.
Yes, the reaction will start and the result will be carbon dioxide. It can move the blockage some distance if the neck is tightly plugged. That is, the result of its action does not differ from the work of a plunger. "Specialists" write that then you need to pour boiling water into the neck and the cork will dissolve. This is again a lie. Clogs can only be destroyed by special chemicals.
The actual actions to destroy the blockage are more serious and require some skills.
- 1. It is necessary to remove the siphon and clean the pipes. This is not an easy and fast way that requires patience.
- 2. Use of products with caustic soda. Read the instructions and act strictly according to the algorithm indicated there. It is absolutely not necessary to buy expensive preparations with caustic soda, since they have exactly the same composition as cheap ones.
- 3. Use special mechanical devices that clean the pipes.
- 4. Invite a plumber and he will do everything with a guarantee of quality.
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