Basic Tips For Unclogging The Bathroom Sink

Bathroom sinks tend to clog more than other sinks in your home. This can partly be true due to the large amount of hair that falls through the sink. Here are some steps you should follow to clear the clog of your bathroom sink.

If the clogging is very minor then a plunger can be used. To solve the problem, you should use this tool first. For using this tool, you do not need to take apart all the parts of your sink but you just need to add some water and then plunge it.

The best plunger to use on a sink is a force cup plunger. Plunge the sink at least four or five times before checking to see if the sink bowl has drained. If that solves the problem, run hot water from the faucet for a few minutes to be sure the problem is fixed.

If the sink is still clogged then you will need to dismantle the sink trap. You will be dismantling the p-trap. A p-trap is the pipe that dips low and then curves. The p-trap can be taken off with a pipe wrench.

In order to take out a p-trap, unscrew the nuts on its side. You can also put a bucket near the trap in order to keep things in that bucket. After taking off the trap, you need to clean that trap.

The trap will be full of grime and slush that never got a chance to go through the pipe. Clean the inner side of the p-trap with a cleaning brush and clean out all the large pieces that could possibly be a clog hazard.

When you will attach back the trap, check if the problem of clogged sink is solved or not. If the clog still persists then the clog could be present down in the pipe. In such cases, a plumbing snake that is less than 25 feet can be used to unclog the sink. Wear the protective gloves while using the plumbing snake.

Using the snake you can unclog the drain by pushing down the snake in the pipeline. Run the snake more than once to unclog it. However, if the problem is still not solved then repeat the above mentioned steps or call a plumber to solve the problem.