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Auger won't fit in drain Julie P. 03-19-2008
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Posted by Norminn on March 19, 2008, 5:51 pm
Julie P. wrote:

>Hi, my tub is clogged up. draining has gotten gradually worse over the
>months to the point it brarely drains at all now and shower water is left
>standing for days if i do not manually use a bucket to remove the water.
>
>I have closet auger, the thin and long kind meant for sink pipes. the
>problem is the spirally end of the auger (the part that is meant to hook
>onto debris) will not fit into the tub drain opening since the house is very
>old, and there is a strange horizontal metal bar going across the diameter
>of the drain. so i can't even get the auger into the drain to begin with.
>and drano isn't working.
>
>thanks for any advice!
>
>julie
>
>
>
>
I read a tip somewhere about using a length of steel cable as an auger.
That trick might have included
putting the cable into a power drill. Have you tried using a length of
malleable wire to see if you can
hook into the offending object? When my shower suddenly began to drain
slowly, it is what I used.
Careful not to use wire stiff enough to get stuck. I took out an
amazing glob of hair. Yuck! The
drain seemed fine one day, and very slow the next. Before I finished up
the project, I dropped one
of the screws for the drain cover down the drain. Hubby got a neat,
telescoping thingy with a magnet
to fish it out with. When I first began probing the drain, it seemed
like the wire went down too far and
hit something soft .... I was afraid that there was a hole in the pipe
and I was hitting dirt, but it was
just a mass of hair. Good luck.

Is the horizontal bar part of the stopper mechanism? Got an access
panel to get at it? That could be
what hair might hang onto.

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Posted by Big_Jake on March 19, 2008, 9:32 pm
> Hi, my tub is clogged up. draining has gotten gradually worse over the
> months to the point it brarely drains at all now and shower water is left
> standing for days if i do not manually use a bucket to remove the water.
>
> I have closet auger, the thin and long kind meant for sink pipes. the
> problem is the spirally end of the auger (the part that is meant to hook
> onto debris) will not fit into the tub drain opening since the house is very
> old, and there is a strange horizontal metal bar going across the diameter
> of the drain. so i can't even get the auger into the drain to begin with.
> and drano isn't working.
>
> thanks for any advice!
>
> julie

You need to snake down the overflow. Take the two screws out that
hold the cover on, and pull out the "innards" if so equipped. Good
luck.

JK

Posted by Smitty Two on March 19, 2008, 9:37 pm

> Hi, my tub is clogged up. draining has gotten gradually worse over the
> months to the point it brarely drains at all now and shower water is left
> standing for days if i do not manually use a bucket to remove the water.
>
> I have closet auger, the thin and long kind meant for sink pipes. the
> problem is the spirally end of the auger (the part that is meant to hook
> onto debris) will not fit into the tub drain opening since the house is very
> old, and there is a strange horizontal metal bar going across the diameter
> of the drain. so i can't even get the auger into the drain to begin with.
> and drano isn't working.
>
> thanks for any advice!
>
> julie

Take off that other gizmo, whatever it's called. The overflow plate.
(Sometimes has the mechanized plug lever attached.) That's the way to
feed a snake into a tub drain.

Posted by on March 20, 2008, 1:52 am
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:37:11 -0700, Smitty Two

>
>> Hi, my tub is clogged up. draining has gotten gradually worse over the
>> months to the point it brarely drains at all now and shower water is left
>> standing for days if i do not manually use a bucket to remove the water.
>>
>> I have closet auger, the thin and long kind meant for sink pipes. the
>> problem is the spirally end of the auger (the part that is meant to hook
>> onto debris) will not fit into the tub drain opening since the house is very
>> old, and there is a strange horizontal metal bar going across the diameter
>> of the drain. so i can't even get the auger into the drain to begin with.
>> and drano isn't working.
>>
>> thanks for any advice!
>>
>> julie
>
>Take off that other gizmo, whatever it's called. The overflow plate.
>(Sometimes has the mechanized plug lever attached.) That's the way to
>feed a snake into a tub drain.


I was getting ready to think nobody knew this but 5 notes down you got
two in a row.
That is the trick.
In fact you will probably fix the problem when you pull this stopper
mechanism out ... along with some stuff you don't want to touch
without rubber gloves ;-)

Just be careful not to ding up the tub. Spread out an old beach towel
in there. It protects the tub and keeps you from dropping stuff down
the dtain.

Posted by Stormin Mormon on March 22, 2008, 8:56 pm
Get as much water out, as possible. (Turkey baster.) Pour in a big
spaghetti pot of boiling water. Might loosen the grease.

--
Christopher A. Young
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Hi, my tub is clogged up. draining has gotten gradually worse over the
months to the point it brarely drains at all now and shower water is left
standing for days if i do not manually use a bucket to remove the water.

I have closet auger, the thin and long kind meant for sink pipes. the
problem is the spirally end of the auger (the part that is meant to hook
onto debris) will not fit into the tub drain opening since the house is very
old, and there is a strange horizontal metal bar going across the diameter
of the drain. so i can't even get the auger into the drain to begin with.
and drano isn't working.

thanks for any advice!

julie




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