Hey, everyone. Today we are in the basement. I came down here before and the washing machine was running and there is water all over the floor. And I was like, okay, what is happen now because we always are popping water leaks in the basement which we will talk about in the future shows. But I realize that the overflow—not the overflow pipe but the drain pipe for the washing machine was just dumping the water as you see here.
And we got to figure out what is wrong. So my first thing is I am thinking that one of the traps are clog or there is a clog in the main line. So we will use a thing called the sewer snake or a drain snake or a snake drain. Drain snake. Take that out, so I just want to show you a little bit about if you have a clog drain, you have to fix it, all right?
Most clogs in your drain system happen and what is called the trap. The trap is a little loop at the bottom of the sink and you if you have ever look underneath the sink and you see that the pipe come down and go like this and then out, call the P-trap. That trap is there it is called a trap because what it does is it traps any gasses that might be coming from the sewer line. It keeps them from going up into your sink and then making the house smell not nice.
So when that bend is there hair can collect in there, soap or grease, you know, marbles, weird stuff can get stock in the trap. To clean out the trap, you can—if you are in the sink or a toilet, you can use a plunger which is which is fairly effective but if we are at the washing machine here or something like that you need a snake and if your plunger does not work also you have to move to the snake.
A snake is basically a wire, like this. This is a snake. It has kind of a spiny end down in here and it is long and it is flexible. This particular one is really cool because it rotates. So you can rotate this and this goes out and this cleans out the drain the pipe in other words and it has a little hook on the end and it will grab hopefully what is on the—now the dogs are barking.
With the little hook end down here with the snake can do is they can grab the clog and pull it back our through and you can throw it up. Or you can just run this through and it was like grease and soap and stuff. You could run this through it will blow a hole through there and the water will go through and you run hot water down there and you will clean it out and it grows through the septic or into the sewer system.
What I like about this with a particular is that a lot of this will have a handle on the end so you can crank it. This one has a spot on the end here. That you can hook up your drill too. So this goes to this and then you run this down the drain and it works very well. So watch, as we do this and see what happens.
You are going to help. You are going to help and clean the drain. We have our snake and we have our electric drill. Make sure you are not standing in water when you do this or use a cordless drill. Cordless drills hope work even better sometimes but my batteries are dead.
So the cool of one about this is that you pull this little trigger here and it feeds it out and then when you put the drill in reverse and you pull that trigger it will pull the snake back in which is very nice. Take a lot slower, I am going to pull the trigger and see how it goes out, and then we are going to reverse the drill and it pulls it back in again which is very cool. All right here we go.
I kind of felt something so, now I am going to pull it back and I am going to put in reverse or you could just pull it out and well—it got its mind of its own sometimes so be careful. You can also a hand feed this back in. So I kind of got stuck on something so, I just put this in reverse and we are going to pull this out.
Oh, nice. Okay, that is your typical clog. That is a bunch of hair. So you know when you are wash your hair. Sometimes it get stocks in drain. Well, that shampoo and soap and everything so, there you go. I think we fix that.
That is how you unclog the drain but remember there is a trap underneath each drain and use your
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