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Default fruit flies coming out of bathroom sink drain


"Bucky" wrote in message
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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.

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