Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Homemade Drain Cleaner

Hey everybody,

I just wanted to take a quick second to share a homemade recipe that I found online last night.  It is for a natural, homemade drain cleaner and it did the trick when we needed it to! 

You see, we had a clog in our basement drain, which is where our washer drains, and the water was backing out further and further.  We are assuming that we had a lint clog, because water was still draining, but very slowly.  We quickly went to grab some chemical drain cleaner, only to find that we had none!  I hate to use the stuff, but didn't really know that there were a ton of other options.  I ran upstairs to Google 'homemade drain cleaners'.

Voila!  I had all the ingredients for the first 'recipe' (already on the washing machine, no less) and I ran downstairs to give it a try.  Here's how hard the recipe was to do...

Dump some baking soda in the drain.  Follow that up with some vinegar and watch it foam.  We did this to the drain a couple of times and it was flowing freely again.  I can't speak to how tough a clog this would work well on since we don't know what our clog was for sure, but it worked great this time.  Definitely worth a try and WAY cheaper and safer for the environment and family, too! 

Hope you find this helpful!  Good luck!

6 comments:

  1. how funny, my friend just suggested that to me when i complained about my garbage disposal! it worked to clear that baby too! thanks colleen!!!

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  2. Yeah. I'm thinking that this would work great as preventative maintenance for troublesome drains, too. It's great. Now we can teach the kids about science and clean at the same time!

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  3. OMG! I am so going to try this. Our upstairs bathroom is clogged and we haven't been abler to buy anything yet!

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