That cross piece makes it almost impossible to use a snake to clean the lines---
Can that be removed without causing the drain assembly to fall apart?
Can that be removed without causing the drain assembly to fall apart?
Shower Drain Slow
Hello,
My wife and I have a slow shower drain on the 2nd floor of our home. No issues with toilet or faucet in the same bathroom.
We have tried all manner of Liquid Plumber/Drano. Today we purchased some "Clean Shot Drain Opener - Professional Strength Sulfuric Acid" from Lowes to try to see if that would help. It sure made an awful odor and seemed to make sounds like it was dissolving stuff inside the drain, but the drain really isn't measurably faster, maybe a little bit.
We have done two 6oz applications of this stuff this afternoon. The bottle says to use 4-6 oz at a time. The second time it didn't seem to make any sounds of dissolving and the odor was less.
We bought the house about 3 years ago and it was built in 1987. I am unsure if there's been a replacement of the tub/shower or even one of those bathfitter things (maybe someone will know from the pics), but the drain is odd to me.
There's what I call a hair catcher which is a screen of small (1/8") holes, that sits flush with the rest of the tub and pulls out (not pictured), then there's a cross piece down under that (pictured) then the drain pipe which doesn't seem to go straight down in any way, I believe it makes a right angle back towards the wall containing the faucet.
I have attached some photos but it's hard to see.
Any suggestions are helpful.
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My wife and I have a slow shower drain on the 2nd floor of our home. No issues with toilet or faucet in the same bathroom.
We have tried all manner of Liquid Plumber/Drano. Today we purchased some "Clean Shot Drain Opener - Professional Strength Sulfuric Acid" from Lowes to try to see if that would help. It sure made an awful odor and seemed to make sounds like it was dissolving stuff inside the drain, but the drain really isn't measurably faster, maybe a little bit.
We have done two 6oz applications of this stuff this afternoon. The bottle says to use 4-6 oz at a time. The second time it didn't seem to make any sounds of dissolving and the odor was less.
We bought the house about 3 years ago and it was built in 1987. I am unsure if there's been a replacement of the tub/shower or even one of those bathfitter things (maybe someone will know from the pics), but the drain is odd to me.
There's what I call a hair catcher which is a screen of small (1/8") holes, that sits flush with the rest of the tub and pulls out (not pictured), then there's a cross piece down under that (pictured) then the drain pipe which doesn't seem to go straight down in any way, I believe it makes a right angle back towards the wall containing the faucet.
I have attached some photos but it's hard to see.
Any suggestions are helpful.
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Looks just like the surround in one of my bathrooms. I took the overflow off and as Eplumber mentioned cleaned the trap thru that. Here are a few photos, some behind the tub. I have an access panel in a closet.
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