Leslie: Well, clogged sink is a part of life and my home, kitchen sink tend to clog often.
Tom: And not all unusual. With all the preparations and food scraps, even a sink with disposer clogged. But if it happens to you, learn the proper way to clean them will make the job go easier and prevent damage to pipe and pipe fittings. Here to give you the exact steps to clean the clog Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating contractors from Old House TV.
Welcome, Richard.
Richard: Hi, guys.
Tom: Maybe you have cleaned more fluid than you could ever hope to count as well.
Richard: Yes, I was always really great after Thanksgiving.
Tom: Now, why the kitchen sink, even put the garbage disposer, still have a clogged-drain problem?
Richard: Well, I mean disposer is doing its job: It took food and grinding it. And, if it grinds pretty good, to be worse but also a function of the conditions of the drain pipe on the side of the exit. We see the kitchen sink with - has declined and so the pipe will clog the horizontal pipe should be pitched.
Tom: So part of the solution here is to ensure that the pipeline system itself does not have any built-blocking once we see: the relationship of the angle, for example.
Richard: Yep. Under your kitchen sink, type of pipeline that under a standard called tubular. And they come with the compression tighten the knot and have no strata.
But there are all kinds of small baffles in the tee and is designed to keep water from splashing into a double sink. But it is also a choke point so often, the simplest to just take the thing apart, cleaning everything out and then bring it back together again.
Tom: OK.
Leslie: Is there a better material equipment portion of tubular plastic, you should use to distinguish the things that help move more efficiently, such as copper?
Richard: It's funny. As a licensed plumber, but I always use copper - and more and more as we now ask Old House, I saw that plastic is easy, smooth inside, it takes, relatively inert. So, I won the world of plastic.
Tom: Now, if you have a blockage in the exhaust system, there is - the first thing most people will grab a plunger. There are things like work or you're better off just going under the sink and started to take things apart where you can physically see what happens?
Richard: Well, if you put the plunger on top of kitchen sink with a disposer, you run some risk of trying to push the food through a small hole, especially the grinding wheel in a disposer. Thus, we find stories about people who push so hard disposer kind of exploded from under the sink.
Tom: Wow.
Richard: Most kitchen sink has a trap with clean-out here. And so the best way, really, in my opinion, is to get under there with a shallow pan, opened the particle trap - a U-shaped fitting under the sink. And is designed to trap sewer gases so they do not come and make stink and it is usually a place where it clogs and ...
Leslie: Do we turn off the water before we tackle ...
Richard: We do not really have until you run the water.
Leslie: OK.
Richard: You know, it just stitcher.
Tom: Now, what about the drain cleaner? I cringe when I hear people talking about it but basically it is a very bad to clear the clog, do not you?
Richard: drain cleaners seem to cleanse the hair of the hands of a plumber. I'm not a fan of it, so I hope I do not start walking against me. But nothing beats the mechanical cleaning of the drain pipe snake or some kind of mechanical device. So often, they drain cleaners go there and crystallize them in there or they sit there and they are in a place where you relax and make the profit.
You can use almost drain cleaners maintenance item clearly to keep a class of organic items in the pipeline but I would not do it to clog it up - more than the entire watery.
Tom: Now, Richard, so many people used to get a plunger when the sink clogs. Is it still an effective thing to do?
Richard: Yes, this is the first line of defense. Every home should have one. And used to try and push and push downward pressure to clear the blockage. After that, the next thing to go for snakes: a mechanical device that can push the cable through the exhaust, down by a U-shaped tube called a trap, and it is clear that mechanical drain.
Tom: Now, your suggestion has always been that, whenever possible, try to attack the clog at the source? In other words, under the cabinet and try to take things apart, identify congestion. If a barrier, put it back together like that?
Richard: Yes, the kitchen sink, if you look there you can see that the tubular connections can vary easily. There is also generally a little clean-out plug at the bottom so that the U-shaped curve called trap. And then you can put a shallow pan under it, open it, and most of the food is coming and you can run a snake through it, either downstream or upstream.
Tom: Good advice. Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating contractors of this Old House TV, thank you so much for stopping by The Money Pit.
Tom: And not all unusual. With all the preparations and food scraps, even a sink with disposer clogged. But if it happens to you, learn the proper way to clean them will make the job go easier and prevent damage to pipe and pipe fittings. Here to give you the exact steps to clean the clog Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating contractors from Old House TV.
Welcome, Richard.
Richard: Hi, guys.
Tom: Maybe you have cleaned more fluid than you could ever hope to count as well.
Richard: Yes, I was always really great after Thanksgiving.
Tom: Now, why the kitchen sink, even put the garbage disposer, still have a clogged-drain problem?
Richard: Well, I mean disposer is doing its job: It took food and grinding it. And, if it grinds pretty good, to be worse but also a function of the conditions of the drain pipe on the side of the exit. We see the kitchen sink with - has declined and so the pipe will clog the horizontal pipe should be pitched.
Tom: So part of the solution here is to ensure that the pipeline system itself does not have any built-blocking once we see: the relationship of the angle, for example.
Richard: Yep. Under your kitchen sink, type of pipeline that under a standard called tubular. And they come with the compression tighten the knot and have no strata.
But there are all kinds of small baffles in the tee and is designed to keep water from splashing into a double sink. But it is also a choke point so often, the simplest to just take the thing apart, cleaning everything out and then bring it back together again.
Tom: OK.
Leslie: Is there a better material equipment portion of tubular plastic, you should use to distinguish the things that help move more efficiently, such as copper?
Richard: It's funny. As a licensed plumber, but I always use copper - and more and more as we now ask Old House, I saw that plastic is easy, smooth inside, it takes, relatively inert. So, I won the world of plastic.
Tom: Now, if you have a blockage in the exhaust system, there is - the first thing most people will grab a plunger. There are things like work or you're better off just going under the sink and started to take things apart where you can physically see what happens?
Richard: Well, if you put the plunger on top of kitchen sink with a disposer, you run some risk of trying to push the food through a small hole, especially the grinding wheel in a disposer. Thus, we find stories about people who push so hard disposer kind of exploded from under the sink.
Tom: Wow.
Richard: Most kitchen sink has a trap with clean-out here. And so the best way, really, in my opinion, is to get under there with a shallow pan, opened the particle trap - a U-shaped fitting under the sink. And is designed to trap sewer gases so they do not come and make stink and it is usually a place where it clogs and ...
Leslie: Do we turn off the water before we tackle ...
Richard: We do not really have until you run the water.
Leslie: OK.
Richard: You know, it just stitcher.
Tom: Now, what about the drain cleaner? I cringe when I hear people talking about it but basically it is a very bad to clear the clog, do not you?
Richard: drain cleaners seem to cleanse the hair of the hands of a plumber. I'm not a fan of it, so I hope I do not start walking against me. But nothing beats the mechanical cleaning of the drain pipe snake or some kind of mechanical device. So often, they drain cleaners go there and crystallize them in there or they sit there and they are in a place where you relax and make the profit.
You can use almost drain cleaners maintenance item clearly to keep a class of organic items in the pipeline but I would not do it to clog it up - more than the entire watery.
Tom: Now, Richard, so many people used to get a plunger when the sink clogs. Is it still an effective thing to do?
Richard: Yes, this is the first line of defense. Every home should have one. And used to try and push and push downward pressure to clear the blockage. After that, the next thing to go for snakes: a mechanical device that can push the cable through the exhaust, down by a U-shaped tube called a trap, and it is clear that mechanical drain.
Tom: Now, your suggestion has always been that, whenever possible, try to attack the clog at the source? In other words, under the cabinet and try to take things apart, identify congestion. If a barrier, put it back together like that?
Richard: Yes, the kitchen sink, if you look there you can see that the tubular connections can vary easily. There is also generally a little clean-out plug at the bottom so that the U-shaped curve called trap. And then you can put a shallow pan under it, open it, and most of the food is coming and you can run a snake through it, either downstream or upstream.
Tom: Good advice. Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating contractors of this Old House TV, thank you so much for stopping by The Money Pit.
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