Comments on: Tips For Clogged Drains & Homemade Drain Cleaner Recipe

By: TipNut

TipNut — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:44:19 +0000

Hi Merry, glad you enjoy the site!

Cream of tartar is a mild acid and helps remove rust/stains so it’s useful in this case to help flush crud out of drains.

By: Merry Smith

Merry Smith — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:55:24 +0000

The Homemade Drain Cleaner Recipe calls for cream of tartar and I wondered why?

(Found this page clicking through some other articles from your newsletter.
And, by the way, since I found this site, I’ve spent more time here than elsewhere. Great info and nice layout. Keep up the good work!)

By: TipNut

TipNut — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:49:35 +0000

It does work and I’ve used it successfully myself several times over the past couple decades. However, it can’t dislodge objects (say toys) or repair major issues with municipal water and sewer lines. You may have a serious blockage (for example tree roots) that only a plumber can repair.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:30:14 +0000

I had a slow drain I use the baking soda vineger 1 cup b.s 2 cups vin hot water after 10 min its been a day and a half water will not go down at all now b.s set up like thick past. This is just an old wives tell and will not work try it your self.

By: Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:29:06 +0000

This recipie works for more than just unclogging drains. I use it with great success to clean a metal cooking or baking pan with burned-on food. Not that I need it that often! But if you sprinkle a little baking soda over the bottom of the pan and then pour in a little vinegar and let it set overnight, the next morning all you have to do is just wipe out the pan with a paper towel.

One strange thing happened to an aluminum pan of mine; it was discolored when I washed it in the morning and put it away. Next time I reached for it, the original finish looked new, not discolored anymore.

By: karen

karen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:57:22 +0000

oh my goodness!! the baking soda and hot water flush absolutely works, im sooo amazed!!…thanks so much for the tip

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By: Sharon Jackson

Sharon Jackson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:08:41 +0000

The vinegar, soda and water drain cleaner works better than anything else on the market.
I put 1 cup of soda into the drain and chase it with 2 cups “hot” vinegar, after about 10 min. I pour a huge pot of “boiling water” down the drain, this is amazing. I also use this in the toilets with the water in them, I have actually heard the toilet and drains gulp and immediately drain. I do this to every drain in my house once a month, no more yearly plumber call. We have very hard water.

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