How to clean your bathroom sink drain and trap | Day 10/30 of my Spring Cleaning Spree  

My white drain trap was brown. 😂 Thanks for the tips. I was able to deep clean it with a bottle brush

Seeing you do these spring cleaning videos makes cleaning feel less overwhelming someday its a smaller task but it's all very targeted❤

We've lived in this TH for about 2 years. My wife's mother had it since it was new in 1997. Every few months the sink goes down slow. I just did what you showed in this video, and it's PERFECT. THANK YOU!

I am so excited to get my first house and just DEEP CLEAN IT FOR LIKE A MONTH because of your videos ☺️

Very satisfying home project.

Instead of all that pour borax down the pipe. It’s safe on all finishes and it destroys in hair or other crap in the pipe. You can buy a bottle of borax from a plumbing supply house

I'm afraid to clean my trap, that thing must have dirt that goes back several previous tenants.

You remind me of my aunt Ellen, God rest her soul. She could clean for Canada

Thank you!!! I did it this weekend and I was so grossed out. I will clean them every 6 months now.

I can't take the sink apart as I'll mess it up so I use a really long bottle brush with the soap mixture you use, run hot water, vinegar and baking soda and Voila!😊

This was so helpful and easy to follow. My drains were full of hair THANK YOU

Great video!

Thanks for the video, just cleaned the grudge out of my P trap

Thank you

I've never met a plumber that would advise pouring boiling water down your drains. It could melt the PVC pipes, seals, and cause more damage.

Don't forget to plug the sink overflow and clean it also, use vinegar and baking soda, this overflow gets filled with schemoo from years of debris, use a long, small cleaning brush, do this while you have the drain stopper out, just reinstall the little rod and nut to prevent everything from leaking out of the stopper opening in the drain. This should help to prevent the sink from overflowing if someone leaves a cloth or something in the sink, also eliminates smells in the sink!

When dissasembling the ptrap go from the U of the P not the straight portion of the pipe, same thing when you reassemble, it'a better for the seal.

I have been trying for so long to get the plug out of the sink to clean it. Thank you so much for showing us.

Sooooo clean 🧼

Your house must be sparkling clean 😊

Very helpful!!

Your videos are amazing!

Awesome 👌🏾

Thank you! I was wondering how to do that❤

I’m a subscriber and really enjoy your videos but my husband and I own a plumbing and heating business and we’ve never even done this at our own home. It kind of seems like a recipe for disaster with people taking apart their pop up assembly and not being able to get it back together properly. I’m all for the baking soda and vinegar part, even encourage people to get one of those cheap little zip line drain cleaner things and pull out all of the hair from both drains but when people start taking apart plumbing, we usually get a call about how they can’t get it to stop leaking after they try to put it back together. People literally cross thread, put gaskets/washers in backwards, forget the gaskets/washers all together, over tighten, under tighten, etc. If it’s not draining slow or smelling bad, you’re probably best to leave it alone.

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This guy cleans everything in his house daily even the unnecessary ones

Great tips thank you! New sub!

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thank you our sink has been clogged for months some of my hair got washed down there after I brushed it I have long thick hair so it turned into a big clog unfortunately

thx dude!!

I leave the sink stopper disconnected so I can pull it out easily to clean.

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Thought no one did this but me until I saw this 😅😂😊

What is the long term effect of poring boiling water though the drain?

I do this also, it’s the only way to really get all of that gunk and hair out. And thank you for wearing gloves. 🧤 I see so many of these where people aren’t wearing any gloves 🤢

I’ve heard from plumber after plumber that you should not pour boiling water down your drains. That plastic Snake. And then borax.

I guess if your just trying to loosen stuff that works. Otherwise baking soda and vinegar neutralize each other and are worthless as cleaners after.

I poured pure bleach down the overflow because some kind of mold was growing in there!

We have very hard water here. I have the same black fixtures all over my home. How would you recommend cleaning the scale and hard water off of the sink fixtures, shower heads, and drains without damaging the black finish?

Don't do what I did and stick a bristle brush down the drain to clean it without wearing a mask while recovering from a head cold. Now I'm to sick to clean anything else and got nasal polyps after doing this. It seems the castor oil is clearing them up and the potassium chloride is helping but I can't find my tea tree oil to breathe in, apparently that's supposed to help a lot.

Don't you have to turn the main, water switch outside your house before you clean?

I put the stopper back in wrong and now it's stuck and I can't push it up... what do I do??? Thanks!

I’m scared I’ll cause a leak

That's what I always do. I take apart perfectly functioning plumbing so I can loosen everything up and probably have problems in the future. Ever hear of " leave well enough alone?"

OMG ! When will it end?

It would be a nightmare if i open the sink traps. Would end up with leaks everywhere

Have you ever broken or messed up your pipes while cleaning it?😅

I can not for the life of me put the rod thru the hold on drain stopper, it’s impossible for me to find jf

What's missing is, how and what to use to clean the overflow hole. I need a diy solution for that. Anyone? Ideas?

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Mix clorox, vinegar, acetone, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide & Lysol. Boom bacterias are gone & say bye bye to your sink!

No doubt with my low attention span I would completely have to watch this 20 times and never be able to put it back.

So you're telling me my apartment rinky dink apartment Drained thing is cleaner than yours it's literally spotless💀

Is that called a p-trap?

Smash like

A shot of industrial strength, bleach, once a month does wonders

I tried to take the nut off for 10 minutes until I literally cried. It won't come off. I even tried a wrench

Who pickled my sink?

"Making sure both of the nuts are tight 💀"

Not sure if you'll see this comment since this video is old but do you have any tips for when the stopper is stuck? I cleaned one sink successfully but in the second sink the stopper just wouldn't come out. I didn't wanna use any tools to force it out in case there's something else I should do

Me: *pours an entire bottle of liquid plumber down the drain and calls it a day*

HOT WATER, NOT BOILING WATER, NEVER BOILING WATER... YOU COULD DAMAGE PIPES ...😮