Re: Sink Draning Issues
I've been there too. I have this theory that when the inside of the pipes are jagged the hair just coats the pipe. In any event every time I would clear my drain it would be slow again a month later untill......
One day my upstairs shower clogged and when you ran the sink long enough rusty muck would back up out of the drain. I thought I was going to have to tear up a floor or ceiling to run a new drain for sure. As a last ditch effort I purchased a product that forces compressed gas in a can through the clogged drain. Because the sink and tub in the upstairs bathroom were attached to the same drain line and the clog was after they joined together I had to do the following. I filled the sink and tub to the overflow drains with the tub overflow clogged with a washcloth. I then with the help of my wife simultaneousely opened the sink and tub drains, held the sink drains plugged with two rags (wife did this) and blasted the compressed gas out od the can down the tub drain.
Because all of the drain lines were filled with water and the drains were all plugged the compressed gas blasted the constriction down the drain. Now I had tried drano, plunging and even had a plumber come in and run a snake in the past but this technique was the only thing that ever lasted as a fix. And let me tell you that the drain ran better than I had ever seen before after that.
I'm guessing that there was a restriction of rust in the pipes that was catching the hair, and the pressure broke the rust free along with the hair but I really have no idea what was going on.
I've also heard of people opening up the trap in the basement and running the snake backwords, up the stack.
