How to Clear a Clogged Sink or Tub

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Oscar Moreno with Morena Custom Home Visions and today we're going to teach you guys how to clear a clogged sink and bathtub drain. Real easily, what you're going to do is to get start is we're going to go through steps on how to clear out the drain. Now there is stuff that usually accumulates sometimes around the stopper and the way we can find that out is, we're going to go underneath the sink, we're going to unscrew the stopper rod from behind there. Take that off and pull that out. Once we've done, we call pull the stopper out and you're either going to notice a bunch of hair residue; clean that off real nice and well and that will get that part taken care of. Now second of all what we're going to do is we're going to remove the pea trap underneath. And when we remove the pea trap, all we have to do is loosen up the inch and a half nuts with your hand. It should be really easy to hand loosen them. Once we got that off, we can check our pea trap and make sure that there is nothing lodged inside there. So we can easily use our bathtub, run some water to it. Make sure that's cleaned out. Now, third step is going to be actually running our snake in about four feet in to the drain. You really don't need to go any further than that due to the little small device that we're going to be using. So what we're going to do, we're going to go in maybe, a foot at a time with our snake. We're going to loosen up our nut down here. So about a foot at a time, we're going to be inserting our snake in to the drain in a clockwise motion. I'm sorry. And as you go in you want to go in as far as we can, hold on to your snake there. Unloose it again, pull it out, pull it out further, tighten it up again and keep going in further and further inside. Like I said, you only need to go in about four feet. Once you've done that, remember just keeping yourself in a clockwise motion, pull the snake out. Eventually if your drain was clogged, you're going to find yourself with little bits and pieces of either hair; anything that's pretty much can go down there. You're going to find it on your snake. Once you clear that out, you can go ahead and get your drain assembly again, your pea trap and so on, reattach that all back together again the same way you guys took it apart. Then reattach your stopper, your stopper rod and once you have everything back in its place, you have unclogged you sink."