CLOGGED DRAINS
Al Carrell: Well, your sink is clogged up and you've tried friendly persuasion with the plumber's friend and you've tried chemical warfare. Now, let's get out the big guns. Come on outside. Hopefully, on the side of your house, you've got something like this. This is a cleanout plug. You'll take a wrench and grab hold of this thing and turn it. It comes out. Put the plug out of the way. This is going right into the main drain, so we can really go in and attack the problem. And what we're going to use is a snake and with this snake end on here when we get to a clog it'll probably tear it out. You just feed this in. If you hit a place in there where there's a turn, then you have to be patient, but just keep trying and when you get to that bend there you take this handle and slide it up and you start rotating, tighten it down, you start rotating around as you push back and forth and generally that's going to make the turn. After it does make the turn you just keep feeding it on in there and when you finally get to the clog it's going to feel differently. Once you get to the clog you want to twist and work back and forth to break it up. You just want to keep working it back and forth at the clog, twist a little bit as you go around and that'll break up that clog. Now you once you get it broken up you need to have a little device like this. And this is called a drain king. It goes on the end of the garden hose. You take your snake out of there and then feed this back down in there and I want to show you what happens when you turn the water on. As you can see, it causes the body of this to swell up, which means that no water can come back. It all goes down toward the clog. It is a messy job, but it's got to be done. Might as well do it yourself rather than having the plumber do it and save that 50 bucks.
Episode 65 1997 - 98 Season
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