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Posted by on April 17, 2008, 11:34 am
On Apr 16, 7:58=A0pm, solidgold...@optonline.net (Ron in NY) wrote:
> Hi All,
Next time you clean it out, grab a screwdriver full and take a whiff.
If it's soap, it'll smell like soap. Here's a big hint for you,
though:
IT'S NOT SOAP.
If, after 8-10 years of scraping this goo out of your trap, you
haven't figured out that it isn't soap, especially after changing the
type of soap you use, and reducing the amount of soap you use, there's
no hope for you.
Have you even bothered to look at what else you put down your drains
to see if perhaps that's the cause of this mysterious buildup?
The buildup is GREASE, animal fat. I bet you have bacon and eggs for
breakfast every morning, or lots of pan-fried foods. Whoever does the
dishes takes the hot pan with the still-liquid grease and rinses it
down the drain. By the time it hits that trap, it's cooled enough to
congeal and stick to the walls of the pipe, building up over time.
Get a wad of the stuff you scrape out and take a whiff some time. If
it's soap, it'll smell like soap.
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