原視頻地址：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGyoyN4D6_o

評(píng)論作者：channelphoenixm

主題：用醋和蘇打粉清理盥洗盆下水口

I wish I had taken a video of my sink before and after I had done this. I am a plumber. I am fully aware of how and why a sink/trap becomes clogged and the mechanism by which a liquid commercial drain cleaner clears most clogs. I had my doubts about this from the very beginning. For one, a product such as Drano utilizes acid to dissolve fats and break down hair and most other common things that build up in drains. Vinegar is a mild acid, so in theory, it should be able to do the same. The problem comes with adding baking soda, which looks like it really makes the magic happen with all of the bubbling and whatnot. But what's actually happening is that the baking soda is neutralizing the already very diluted acid in the vinegar, basically rendering useless the very property that would make vinegar at all useful for clearing a drain.?

As I said earlier, I wish I had taken a before and after video of this "solution" if you want to call it that. Why? Because it worked beautifully! I had no Drano. It's Sunday, my only day off. Dammit I'm not snaking my own damn drain today!?

So yeah, it worked. I made some slight adjustments to the process to account for the fact that vinegar is a weak acid and to account for my laziness. I started the process out basically the same. No measurements, just dumped about a quarter box of baking soda on the drain and pushed it down with my fingers using a little trickle of water to help it migrate into the drain. Then I dumped vinegar into the drain until it started to fill into the bottom of the sink a bit. Now here's where I varied from the technique above. After pulling the sink stop closed, I had to contain the "magic bubbles", or more importantly the pressure created by the bubbles, in the sink trap. ??

Seeing as this was a pedestal sink in my bathroom that my daughter clogged with toilet paper or hair or jelly beans or whatever the hell she does in there when she's being suspiciously quiet, I had to plug the overflow hole at the top of the basin. For this I used fancy hole plug devices, i.e. my fingers. Once the majority of the bubbling subsided and the air pressure seemed to dissipate, I extracted my hole plug devices and went back to my me shaped couch dent and watched "How it's Made" for 20 or so minutes. I figured this would be enough time for the diluted (and now neutralized) acid to do its thing. As I said before, it's Sunday and I'm not boiling water, not for Mac-n-cheese, not for my sink, just not. So instead I filled the entire sink with hot tap water (close enough). Once it was full, then came the moment of truth. I popped the plug annnnndd nothing. Nada. A slow trickle of water making its way through the trap. Stupid home remedies. Stupid YouTube video. Stupid drain. Stupid Sunday.?

And then whoosh! The clog blew through the trap! She's draining like a champ. I can only attribute the results to magic, probably voodoo, certainly not science. At any rate, a nice bonus was that the sink stop is now shinier, as the vinegar dissolved the mineral deposits that had been building up (all science, no voodo).

So, yes this works. It may not work for you. Your daughter may play with rocks or cement in your sink, I don't know. It's worth a shot.