"Ken" wrote in message
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Smitty Two wrote:
In article .com,
alath wrote:

First you look at the trap. It is an S-shaped pipe
underneath every sink or drain in my house and probably yours. Could
be in the basement or crawl space maybe in a wall.
I was wondering about the trap. This home is built on a concrete slab
floor. I don't think I am going to be able to get at the trap to take
it apart.

If it's hair in the trap, a gallon of standard laundry bleach poured down
the drain before you go to bed for the night will dissolve it.

I did not know that bleach alone would dissolve hair. Is this true??

not that I know of, but it may clear the gunk making it stick to the drain
pipe. Of corse if your on a septic system both the bleach and the hair
passing to the tank/field is bad news......



Don't use any water in that bathroom for at least eight hours, including
the toilet and sink. If that doesn't clear it out then if it were me I'd
call a plumber. I've found cheap snakes to be useless, and good ones are
expensive and take finesse to use properly. Sure the theory of operation
is uncomplicated, but it takes experience to do a decent job. This is all
based on my own experience of 25 years with a pesky bathtub drain, I
must've tried snaking it myself at least fifty times, which sometimes
improved it for a few months but the slow draining kept coming back. Over
the years I had four or five different plumbers over to snake it, and
that usually lasted about six months. Finally I found a guy who knew what
he was doing and haven't had a single problem since he was here five
years ago.

Incidentally, my house is also on a slab and I even cut a hole in the
kitchen cupboard down by the floor to try to gain trap access and
although I could see the trap there wasn't any room to get in there and
take it apart.