Spent a whole afternoon fighting a floor drain that wouldn't unclog

I spent 4 hours on a Tuesday wrestling with a slow floor drain in the dish pit. Turned out a chunk of dried rice had hardened in the trap and none of my chemicals or plunging would touch it. Anyone else deal with drains that just refuse to cooperate?

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barbaraw1621d ago

...and of course it was rice. That stuff turns into concrete in pipes, I swear. You gotta hit it with boiling water first, then a wet/dry vac to suck out whatever's loose. If that doesn't work, a drain snake with a small head can break up that hardened chunk better than any chemical. I've used a shop vac to pull the debris right out of the trap, saves you from taking the whole pipe apart.

janab8221d ago

Oh man, @barbaraw16 I gotta disagree, boiling water just makes that rice swell up worse in my experience.