Recommend me a good drain cleaner.

[Salty seadog]

The upstairs bathroom wastewater pipe got bunged right up recently to the point of took 5 minutes to empty the sink.
It's been cleared now but can anyone recommend a good product to stick down it every now and then?
The blockage was a fair way along the pipe.

Ta.

 

[Deleted User]

Better to just take the trap off and clean it from time to time surely?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The upstairs bathroom wastewater pipe got bunged right up recently to the point of took 5 minutes to empty the sink.
It's been cleared now but can anyone recommend a good product to stick down it every now and then?
The blockage was a fair way along the pipe.

Ta.

Simple and effective IME

https://www.diy.com/departments/caustic-soda/36329_BQ.prd

 

[Salty seadog]

Better to just take the trap off and clean it from time to time surely?

Ok for the sink but the bath is nigh on impossible to get to.

 

[Salty seadog]

Simple and effective IME

https://www.diy.com/departments/caustic-soda/36329_BQ.prd

Might be a bit hardcore for plastic pipes.

 

[Deleted User]

Ok for the sink but the bath is nigh on impossible to get to.

I see, wrongly assuming it was the basin.

2 women in house so bath plug hole always has hair in it, I use a bendy wire thing with like a velcro end on that you poke down the hole and pull the cr*p out. It's a minger of a job but it does the trick.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5M-Long-...-/143680948441?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

I used one of these. Mainly human grease and wife's hair. Works well, but the stuff that comes out stinks! You can get 10 metre long ones.

 

[Scotty55]

Might be a bit hardcore for plastic pipes.

Isn't the bottle plastic?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Might be a bit hardcore for plastic pipes.

I use it on same.

Polypropylene is highly resistant to strong alkalis. Indeed, it's a standard material of construction for industrial installations using this type of chemical (I have experience of designing these).

 

[roadrash]

i use it , i have plastic pipes, it works

 

[roubaixtuesday]

It's a bit of a mystery to me why people go around dismantling drains to clean them when tiny quantities of a standard industrial chemical sort it with zero effort.

I have a suspicion people enjoy fettling

 

[Salty seadog]

Isn't the bottle plastic?

It is but the product inside is powder and n not reacting.

 

[Blue Hills]

The upstairs bathroom wastewater pipe got bunged right up recently to the point of took 5 minutes to empty the sink.
It's been cleared now but can anyone recommend a good product to stick down it every now and then?
The blockage was a fair way along the pipe.

Ta.

Check out the info from these simple folk.
https://www.dri-pak.co.uk/
Some of their stuff is I think sold in your local wilco/wilkinsons.

 

[PaulSB]

We have waste pipes with a very shallow run and difficult to access. I just put ALDI drain cleaner down once every 3-4 months.

 

[Salty seadog]

We have waste pipes with a very shallow run and difficult to access. I just put ALDI drain cleaner down once every 3-4 months.

Same here, about two meters of shallow run before it gets to the vertical.