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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
I have fruit flies coming out of the bathroom sink drain. They do not
come out of any other drains in the house. Should I call a plumber or pest control for this problem? Anyone resolve a similar problem to this before? Thanks. |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
"Bucky" wrote in message oups.com... I have fruit flies coming out of the bathroom sink drain. They do not come out of any other drains in the house. Should I call a plumber or pest control for this problem? Anyone resolve a similar problem to this before? Thanks. Fruit flies only nest or swarm where there is something to eat. Make sure there isn't anything edible in the vanity under the sink, and dose the drain with drain cleaner. Catch the flying ones with a vacum cleaner. Do you have small kids in the house? I suspect an errant banana. aem sends... |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:52:19 GMT, "ameijers"
wrote: [cut] I suspect an errant banana. Reminds me of that old saying: Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
"ameijers" writes:
"Bucky" wrote in message roups.com... I have fruit flies coming out of the bathroom sink drain. They do not come out of any other drains in the house. Should I call a plumber or pest control for this problem? Anyone resolve a similar problem to this before? Thanks. Fruit flies only nest or swarm where there is something to eat. Make sure there isn't anything edible in the vanity under the sink, and dose the drain with drain cleaner. Catch the flying ones with a vacum cleaner. Do you have small kids in the house? I suspect an errant banana. Also check to see what is trapped in the overflow of the sink. The trap should be filled with water below the sink, and preventing anything from working its way up from below - so the source should be "inside" the sink. The overflow leads through the inside of the sink to the drain, and you should see holes below where the plug sits that are the outlet of the overflow. Put the plug in, fill the sink, and see how well the overflow drains. Trying to clear it out isn't fun. I've filled the sink, covered the overflow with a rag (held in place by one hand), then taken a plunger to the main drain while keepig the overflow blocked. You have to get the plunger going quickly after you pull the plug, and you haven't got long before the water is gone. I've thought about putting something into the drain below the outlet for the overflow to block it up, then adding water and using the plunger, but I haven't convonced myself I want the job of removing that blockage later (if it's in well enough to withstand the plunger action...) You can also add some drain cleaner through the overflow, but it isn't easy to get it to move down to where the clog is without washing it all the way out. In my experience, sinks with pop-up plugs (connected to a lever in the faucets) are the worst at accumulating crud in the overflow passages. |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
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Bucky wrote: I have fruit flies coming out of the bathroom sink drain. They do not come out of any other drains in the house. Should I call a plumber or pest control for this problem? Anyone resolve a similar problem to this before? Thanks. They're probably in the overflow, and that means there's stuff in there they're eating. Yuck. I'd consider this a strong sign you should replace the sink. |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
ameijers wrote:
Fruit flies only nest or swarm where there is something to eat. Make sure there isn't anything edible in the vanity under the sink, and dose the drain with drain cleaner. Catch the flying ones with a vacum cleaner. Do you have small kids in the house? I suspect an errant banana. Thanks for your reply. Actually, I'm not sure what kind of flies they are. But they are not house flies, they're about half the size of house flies. There shouldn't be any food in the sink because it's in the master bath, and I don't have any kids. I supposed the previous owner's kids could have put food in it. Also, the drainage in that sink is a little slow. Could that have an affect as well? |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
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Bucky wrote: Also, the drainage in that sink is a little slow. Slow drain, and flies... What does that suggest to *you*? |
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fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain
"Bucky" wrote in message oups.com... ameijers wrote: Fruit flies only nest or swarm where there is something to eat. Make sure there isn't anything edible in the vanity under the sink, and dose the drain with drain cleaner. Catch the flying ones with a vacum cleaner. Do you have small kids in the house? I suspect an errant banana. Thanks for your reply. Actually, I'm not sure what kind of flies they are. But they are not house flies, they're about half the size of house flies. There shouldn't be any food in the sink because it's in the master bath, and I don't have any kids. I supposed the previous owner's kids could have put food in it. Also, the drainage in that sink is a little slow. Could that have an affect as well? Yepper. You have some kind of organic clog in there. Did you just buy the place? The previous owner may have dumped innapropriate stuff in there, like some exotic skin lotion crap or something. Step one, I'd pull off the trap and clean that, and use a bottle brush to clean as far as possible into the wall. Wrap it in an old towel when you pull it out. Follow up with one of the foaming 2-part drain cleaners, and as other posters have noted, funnel some down the overflow. Flush the cleanser with cold after the designated waiting period, and I like to follow that with lots of hot, assuming the drain is flowing. I finally got around to doing all the above to the bath sink in the place I bought, and it made a world of difference. I didn't have any flying things, though. If the trap cleaning and binary cleanser doesn't do it, I'd call a plumber to get it snaked. If it is a hard clog deep in the wall, it won't be pretty. aem sends... |
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