Oh chit!!

I don't think this will go easy no matter what.

Home depot near me carries a drain cleaner that is Sulfuric acid, instead of the concentrated bleach that drano and 95% of the other drain cleaners are made of. The bleach based are not going to work on the polymers in the fix all, and would probably make things worse. I'd try the sulfuric based as that "should" break down the polymer.

I don't think you will be able to "hammer through it", even if you can find the clog.

Just my $.02

illinichaser wrote:

New drain pipe

schusler wrote:

New drain pipe

schusler wrote:

problem is that the drain is under the tub, in the finished room in the basement ... pain in the a$$ to tear out the drywall. If I go that way, I'm gonna re-design the whole bathroom!

kharzhak wrote:

Honestly, if you keep working the snake around the clog , you may finally wear down the major blockage. Also, never hurts to put a few inches of water in the tub (drain plugged) then with plenty of water to work back and forth, plunge the $hit out of it over and over after the clog remover, sometimes that will work.

Numismaniac wrote:

OK - I'll admit, I'm not a stellar fix-it guy, but I do a few things around the house. The bathtub on our main floor started running slow a couple years back and I've tried to snake it a couple of times to no avail. I was working at it again since my son came home from college and I'd like to have the bathroom next to his room fully functional. Anyhow .... my wife FINALLY came clean - she'd cleaned up one day and dumped some fix-all down that particular drain. She had run a lot of water down after it, but I suspect that it clogged it enough that it's not running clean anymore.

Soooooo - any of you SUPER handy guys have a solution?

My next step is to have my cousin come over with his fiber optic camera he uses at work to see if I can ID exactly where the clog is at and beat the **** outta it with the snake head ... anyone else have a better solution?

Thanks in advance!

kharzhak wrote: