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Summary: Clean drains using a green household cleaner that's made with baking soda, salt and clear vinegar; then, pour the mixture down the drain and follow it with a pot of boiling brine. Discover how often to use this green method to clean drains in this free video from a home repair specialist on maintaining and fixing houses.
Tim Gipson is a home repair specialist and remodeling contractor in Nashville, Tenn. He holds a MST and BS from Middle Tennessee University. Gipson is insured, licensed and bonded with...read more
"Hi, I'm Tim Gipson, and I'm going to talk to you about how to green clean your drains. Now it's always good to maintain your drains but you don't always want to use harsh chemicals, so there are some good old Grandma recipes that you can use. Just with household items that you have around. So in this particular case we're going to be using baking soda, salt and clear vinegar. And then also boiling water. And you know, this is something you can do whether you have a clog or whether you just want to do this periodically. Say once a month or once every two months. First thing we want to do is we want to make up mix up some baking soda with just a little bit of water and what you want to do is you want to make this where it is fairly thick, where it's just enough to pour. And then what we're going to do is we're going to take this baking soda mixture and we're going to pour it down the sink and then we're going to follow that up with a cup of the vinegar and then we're going to let that set for about ten minutes 'cause you want to get down in there and you want to work in those pipes. But the vinegar and the baking soda it would actually create a foaming action which we'll get down there and actually get out around and clear up that gunk that actually coats the inside of the pipe. Okay, so once we let that sit, we're going to take a cup of salt and we're going to put it into a pot of water, we're going to boil this, so we're going to create a pot of boiling brine. So once this is set for ten minutes, then we'll simply pour the boiling water down and then after we've done all that, the last thing we want to do is we want to just run the hot tap water and run this for about three to five minutes, just to make sure that we've had time to clear everything out. And that's all there is to it. So I'm Tim Gipson and those are some tips on how to green clean your drains."
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