Thanks stumbled upon this video when the kitchen sink was clogged and water was coming up both side of the sink, also my clean out was also under my sink and not outside, lucky for me I used all 25ft and got it cleared, cheers to you sir for the video
Plumber worked on a two story building that had 1st floor and second floor Bathrooms located in direct line one upper and one lower. Clogged lower toilet so plumber pulls out high pressure air device to blast a shock wave to clear the line. Used it on lower toilet but the upper toilet was in use at the same time. BAMMM!! A huge shriek could be heard throughout the building as one of the secretaries sitting on the lou got a blast that left her outline on the bathroom ceiling. She had to be sent home. Always check for the unexpected.
I'd be on the floor laughing. We have that same issue with ACs that you have to be careful with in condos, where sometimes the AC repair folks want to blow air into the line, but you have to be careful it should shoot water out of the pan of the unit above you or below you.
Thanks for video - My kitchen sink was clogged up just like what you had. i bought rigid snake and used cordless drill, and went all the way to 25 foot, and nothing was clogged at that length. i knew it was somewhere longer than that. HD did not have 50 ft tool snake so i rented from home depot 75 footer auger snake 50 bucks for 4 hours. i have 3 clearsout stations in my house, one for kitchen, one for bathroom and one for washer. you showed you had one... i guess i am lucky in Texas. It was too dark to use cleanout entry point at 10 pm, so i plugged 75 footer auger snake (electric eel ..brand) underneath sink of kitchen and shoved manually and at time its stuck a bit i pressed pedal and turned on motor to agitate it... but i did not feel too much pressure. i went as deep as 60 foot.. maybe it hits street sewer line. then i retract it manually, "slowly", without motor on, since it is easier doing it manually. Motor is only used when you have pressure!! anyway as i am pully back, i heard water started gushing out. i knew i cleared something. prepare to get sewer splash on your face and cloth as your pulling (musk sent) to attract pests...then i immediately filled both sink with boiling water and run them ... and worked like a charm!! in next 10 years, i will use cleanout entry point and run water as Jeff suggested. much easier and cleaner without messing under sink. Good job Jeff, and to every one, go and rent out that beast. will save you time and headache.
The kitchen sink clogged up this morning..wife 😱 screaming... bought from Walmart Vevor 50ft auger manual feed on sale 150 free shipping.. opened clear out channel from outside...started shoving pipe with boring head ..had to do it twice by retracting cable all the way then pushed it through again until it cleared up ..smell of that pipe was worst in my life ....filled sink with boiling water...flushed it woth some pine sol...now it is been resurrected back to work.. Happy wife now..wife never admitted what she has been pouring in.. they always say never poured grease.....lol....but what came out from pipe reminded me of what was like NFL cam replay .anyway tool paid itself
I found out exactly what you mean about older homes that don't have a cleanout. This house was built in 1955. A plumber once suggested adding a cleanout to the pipe under the sink and down the back wall to make things easier in the future. Only thing is it empties inside so I can't just let water drain out of it as freely you did.
Yes, my cleanout is on the outside of the house, which is better, water just lands on the grass. VERY helpful for the few line clogs I have had over the years.
@@rkgsd My house was Built-in 1993 as were many of the houses within a mile of my house and most of us have clean outs on the outside of the house. I did have to condos Built-in 2005 and 2007 cama where the clean outs were inside the kitchen. But I have had plumbers tell me they don't like to do that anymore because if you open up the clean out as just gonna gush water and so the kitchen which doesn't make any sense so that's what I prefer the clean out outside the house
Best video we’ve seen so far. It’s been 2 days going on 3 trying to fix our clogged kitchen sink. We’ve done the baking soda method, the snake method, and nothing worked. We think the issue might be the outside, just afraid to get sewage water in my face lol. I’m assuming a 25 ft snake will not work?
Murphy's Law, the clog will always be 5 feet further down than your snake will reach. Happened like that me 3 times on 3 different properties, we had to call in the plumber with the longer snakes.
@@John214tx yes.. the main line was about 20 feet into the line (wet wipes) and the sink line was about 8 feet in the line (rice) took less than 20 minutes
Is it the same in mobile home I have a vent the kitchen sink do I just take off the cap and then start snaking it from an under my sink I need help thank you the video is great
No, I heard for a while it was required by plumbing code here in FL, then I heard they no longer require it, but certainly the removable P-trap is the perfect access point.
Same issue with my kitchen sink, sewer smell and slowish draining. Should I buy the cheap thin 25 ft snake like you show first? Or a Cobra 50ft 1/2 inch piano wire manual auger for about $10 more? Am thinking my sink to sewer line distance is probably 30 ft max. Small house single floor.
I have always had the worst luck with the blockage is being beyond the reach of my 20 foot snake I just don't feel like buying one of those big old sectional machines and then having to buy 5 or 610 foot long sections to go along with it.
@@jeffostroff thanks, yeah as a homeowner I'm not going to buy an expensive electric sectional machine. Guess I'll get the 50 ft 1/2" manual one then. great video , I forgot about the outside wall cleanout, I think I have one, there's a circular metal plate on that outside wall that I'll remove to see.. thanks for the answer!
@@filbaytee1118 So far I have owned my house and else and had 2 different condos that needed to have this done over the past 15 years so It's not too bad about odds to have to spend a $150 to have the plumber come out to do It and when you're a landlord that's a tax right off anyway
My sink clogged just like yours. I tried to use a drum snake hooked up to my drill and it wouldn't go down the pipe. I had to call a plumber who used his heavy duty rigid snake and opened mine right up. I tried for 2 hours and wasted my time. I paid $255 to have mine opened. Money well spent.
Hello Jeff. So i had the same issues we had plumber use a 75 foot snake and he did it through the kitchen pipe and months later it clogged back up. I called a plumber and he said it maybe clogged from sewer can i use this same method for that? Sorry for the choice of words im new to this
It should not clock backup again unless he did not do it the road job the 1st time period also if there were any 90ﾟ turns in any of the pipe leading down to the sewer then There may have been additional food and stuff clogging the pipe. One thing you could try as if you have access to any clean else to wear it access is the city sewer system and you can run water from a bathroom for example in the house and see if that water which takes a different path makes it to the sewer system and doesn't give you any problems then it means the sewer system is not clogged. Also remembered by time your pipe drops off into the sewer system it's a much wider pipe in not likely to clog.
@@jeffostroff Yes I have a P- trap and I snaked it, the problem is still there. The house was built in 1956 and the metal old pipe is still there. It was suggested to me to cut the metal pipe and put a plastic one. I do not know.
Just used a 25 ft snake for our sink and still felt like there might have been more gunk blocking the drain further along. That said, it now takes 30 seconds for a full sink to drain which is much better than the 90 seconds it was taking before. Is 30 seconds a fair time for a full (standard plug hole) sink to drain? 🤷🏼♂️
@@jeffostroff yeah, it doesn't seem slow now but I agree it should be quicker. If it starts slowing again, I'll get a plumber to snake the whole length. Just uploaded a video of it if you want to see what you think. Appreciate your reply. 👍🏻
Hi Jeff, my kitchen sink is clogged. I tried plunger and baking soda + vinegar, and ensured the p-trrap was not clogged. I used DIY snake and pushed through for 25 ft, but the sink is still clogged. I hope to resolve it without calling a plumber as my area is hit pretty severely by coronavirus lately. Do you have any other DIY recommendation? Do you recommend any bio/enzymatic drain cleaner? How about chemcial cleaner? I have both metal and PVC piping. Thanks a bunch
No chemical will work, stop wasting your money on drain products, you have a clog in the system. Historically my clogs have always been further down line than my snake can reach so I end up spending $150 calling a plumber and their machines are better at clearing the clog because they also spin. In condo I had a couple fo years ago, the clog was 33 feet and my snake was only 20, and did not spin either.
So, I have used the snake, and open that thing in the back of the house, but I don't my snake is strong enough, it keep going back up, do I need one like yours
How many feet of snake did it take? I tried using a 25ft snake and it wasn't long enough. I suppose. It could be a root busting the pvc .....no telling
Hi, I like your content but my house is townhouse and kitchen is at second floor. I tried with my newly bought 50ft snake but seems like it can't go into the vertical drain waste sewer. I'm living in Canada, Ontario. Do you know if my house will have the cleaning out on the outside of my wall? Thank you!
We had a condo on the 2nd floor of a building and same thing we had to bring him a plumber simply because their machine can make the snake going to those areas in the pipe where you can't get to
when I run disposal it t empties into other side bun a few seconds later both sides are stopped up, I've replaced the p trap and even ran a snake thru line as far as it will go, and it's still clogged, but I've poured drano it done nothing, then I poured a box of baking soda and vinegar into both sides and wow it's working now but it's still clogged some, maybe my problem is at the tee joint,
My problem was further down-the-line and my snake could reach as well. You will have to call in a plumber with a sectional machine and they keep feeding in sections sections of snake down in near until it gets to it
@@jeffostroff omg there's a easy fix! Use a plunger but be sure to hold down a stopper in the other sink! And the pressure will reach the clog in seconds!!!! No snake needed,
@@toshawalker1910 if it was only that easy to service kitchen drains where I work. The only sinks we can free clogs with a plunger are bathroom sinks. Our plumbing has so much built up BS in the drains it's crazy 🤪
I have a problem. My kitchen sink won’t drain. Right under the kitchen sink downstairs is the 2nd bathroom bathe water would back up from the drain in the shower downstairs. And I tried to pour water in there and drano and nothing. It fills up. I can tell there is a plug upstairs tho. Not sure what to do. Need help
You either have a blockage in the plumbing stack vent on your roof, or a blockage somewhere beyond that downstairs shower. hopefully not roots blocking your pipe under the ground somewhere. Stoop wasting money on draino and other useless chemicals they don't work outside the commercial. You may need a plumber to come snake the line. The only thing that removes clogs in plumbing lines is physical agitation from a snake
Yes, sometimes the bladders can work, sometimes they get stuck in the pipes if DIY folks don't secure it good to the hose. Also if you clog is past the point where the wall waste line goes into the stack/sewer drain line, sometimes they cannot make that turn.
Well, that would certainly make me wonder how the mud got in there so maybe you have holes in it? Do you have a black Shy cast iron pipe? Or is it like an orange clay like roof tiles would be made out of, or is it white PVC, or is it galvanized metal? Which one do you think you have?
I don't know about Georgia but we're here in Florida and many of the houses built in the 1990s have clean outs somewhere usually on the outside and some actually had them on the inside of the house as well
Jeff, I have 3 questions. #1 You didn't state how long the pipe from the cleanout port to the sink is. How long is it?? I bought 2 augurs: a 20-footer and a 50-footer. #2 You didn't say which sink should be snaked--the right or the left or both? My righthand sink contains the garbage disposal. #3 Mine is a 4-story house built in 2001. My kitchen is on the 2nd floor. Where is my clearout port--or does my house even have one?
The clean out in our house is not inside it is actually outside the house but it is right outside the wall opposite the kitchen sink there so the clean out is basically inches away from the sink drains each sink drains into a common pipe inside the wall and so the plumber stuck the sections of snake into that single pipe from the outside where the clean out is . Some houses have a clean out under the sink, I had a townhouse one time that the kitchen island sink had a clean out on the living room side of the island wall, some houses have the clean out outside , and some houses have no clean out . If your house has no clean out, then remove the P trap and that as your clean out you will have to stick the sections into the street drain. That is what most plumbers end up doing anyway.
Only use the plumber's Teflon tape on cleanout threads if they are metal. For plastic they usually don't use them, unless you know the manufacturer specifically calls out for tape to be used.
Just started having the both sides problem. It had been the non-disposal side but I thought I resolved that with the baking soda/vinegar/boiling water and using those drain cleaner sticks. But my problem now is that plug is stuck. Last time I opened it was 1998 when I learned you don't put potato peels down the disposal. (Oops) I had trouble opening it then but a pipe wrench and a small sledge hammer did the trick. Not this tome tho. A few feet away is a capped access to the sewer line to the street. Any suggestions? Thanks
I would try the pipe wrench with a long pipe over the handle for extra mechanical leverage. I loosened a cast iron pipe going into a cast iron stack using a pipe over the wrench a few weeks back. IT worked when all my struggling with the just pipe wrench alone had no affect.
@@jeffostroff This is for my bathroom. The stopper does not have a cap, but the bottom part with the plastic hole is still intact. Since it keeps falling, I'm thinking it is because the pivot has rusted off, so there is nothing holding up the stopper and the cap has nothing to do with it. If that is the case, would replacing just the pivot and keeping the topless stopper be enough to make it work?
Jeff, we have had to have a plumber in 3 times since we bought this 15 year old house a year ago. It does have an outside drain. Before that we bought an expensive garbage disposal which hasn't shown to be useful. Is there a liquid or powder we can use to keep it from clogging. The last plumber said that there may be a dip in the pipe? Please help!
There are no liquid or solid type drain cleaners at work outside of the commercial ever I've never seen one unclog any type of clog ever in my entire life. The only way to unclog a clogged is to send a snake down the line to break it free or in some cases for AC condensate lines I have stuck garden hoses in the line and flushed it out that way with water. So if you're getting a clog somewhere along the line they need to look at whether or not you have accurate slope going towards the wall from them garbage disposal P trap output, they need to find out if there's any blockage in the lines running underground like maybe roots from trees which are very common to interfere with the flow of water or discharge or anything out of a garbage disposal. Also are you using an S trap or a P trap? S traps are not as efficient because they are not vented and so you want to make sure that your system is vented and that the vent up on the roof is not blocked from like critters or dust and dirt and and stuff like that that can block the tops of vent stacks.
All the years I've been doing plumbing I've never seen a clean out on the outside and to install the AC condenser so close to it is just bad planning. It's also against code in many places to have any kind of waste dump out ot the ground.
Mu luck too, my snake only goes 20 feet. Every time I have had this happen in one of my old condos, the clog was further downline than my snake could reach.
Jeff my friend's wife cook carrots Anta garbage disposal shredded it push them down and he had a she called it the drain when he pulled out the line it looks like the carrots were all sliced and diced so he had to take his time clean them all out of there it was funny but not for him cuz you to clean it out😷🍻🍺
Yes, that's why I tell people try not to let too much food get down the garbage disposal, even though that's what it is for, but not hard items. Ice is fine because it scours it and melts, but other stuff just clogs up the pipes.
Want a little tricks for cleaning your garbage disposal putting leftover lemons after you use them and their helps clean them make me smell better too I also put little strainers over my drains💥🍻🍺
The inly thing that you put in your sink is water a disposal is made for me to make money i can install it today and in 3 days or so ill be back unclogging your sink drain
It depends on the year of your house and the early nineties it was a big thing I'm not even sure if they still do it anymore sometimes the clean house are waste Because many plumbers just go right down to peach wrap into the wall anyways
Yes I have helped a number of ladies in our area who have houses built in the 50s and 60s with galvanized pipes and those things get arteriosclerosis big time and they just seal up right in the middle from all the corrosion inside the pipes
IT shows the procedures that can be used. Plumber was only called in because snake was too short, so blockage was 30 feet down the line. Many DIYers can solve this on their own using a snake.
I live in a mobile home and my kitchen sink has been clogged for over a month now! I changed the minivent with a brand new more expensive one, I've used 3 different brand's of drain cleaner's, I used 2 full bottle's of lye crystal's and I've even ran a 50 foot snake twice already and still it won't drain! Whatever the clog is made of (probably grease) it is a grey looking mess with a watery consistency! I don't have the money to hire a plumber so I have to do it myself, I just don't know what else to do, I'm at my witt's end, can you give me some advice on how to fix this mess, I'd greatly appreciate it, thanks in advance !!! Mike
From what you described that seems very typical of when we're backed up. But unfortunately unless you can get a good snake down there and get all of that physically cleared up it's not going to solve itself. Don't waste any money on drain cleaners none of them work ever, nothing ever works outside of the commercial. When you have a clog you need something to physically poke through and clear out that clog that's why the plumbers use a sectional machine and oh machine and they keep feeding in sections of sections of that snake that are about an inch wide and it spins around and wobbles around inside the pipe and cleans it as a push is it through. Unfortunately you may be stuck with that route as your only choice unless you can clean it out with your snake. I have always found that my 20' snake is inadequate and the blockage ends up being 30 or 40' down-the-line in which case I would not have reached it anyway on my own. So I always end up paying $150 to a plumber to come do it take some 20 minutes.
@@jeffostroff Thanks for your reply! I went to home depot and bought a handcranked "HUSKY" half inch × 50 foot drain auger and I ran it through the 2 inch drain access under the sink twice, I think all it's doing is moving it around and possibly creating more small clog's instead of 1 big clog because it drained very slowly but no wont drain at all! Do you think I should just keep running the snake the full 50 feet in and out until it eventually clears it, or am I just wasting my time & effort? Is there a technique that I'm not aware of, it seems to me that there's only one way to do it but I'm not a plumber and don't really know any of their trick's they use. Are there any attachment's that would fasten to the end of the cable that would break that crap up any faster and more efficiently? I appreciate your response and respect your opinion, thanks for your help Jeff!
@@michaelsullivan9342 Snakes alone do not do it the plumbers sectional machine actually spins in wobbles the section the sections are round in place so that they're essentially Orbiting around inside the pipe cleaning it. And who knows maybe you didn't go far enough you'd never know where the clock goes until you actually hit it.
