runderwo
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The plumbing fun never ends at my place. Now it's a clogged shower drain. Let me give you what led up to this. I am on a slab so I don't have access to any of these drain pipes. At the same time the shower started getting slow (a few days ago), food from the kitchen garbage disposal and wastewater from the washing machine was coming up the bathtub in the other bathroom. The tub was not draining at all. I snaked out this pipe using a 25 foot hand auger. I could not negotiate the P trap with a beefier 50 foot auger. I pulled out a bunch of hair, and eventually the tub drained. It was slow for a little bit, but now it drains quickly.
The shower never improved though. In fact it got worse. I wonder if I pushed part of the bathtub clog into the shower pipe. It is a drain in the middle of the floor of a shower stall. The toilets, sinks and washer all seem okay, it's just this one shower now. It is a PVC drain in the floor. I can't figure out how to get around this trap and get the snake into the pipe. On plumber's advice I used 16 oz sulfuric acid drain opener. Carefully poured it into the standing water in the drain, and allowed to sit for 1/2 hour. Initially it looked promising, the standing water was gone when I came back, and I was able to run the shower for 60 seconds with no water accumulating, but eventually the water did come back and is now standing in the same spot again.
Is it time to throw in the towel? I'm out of ideas at this point unless I can figure out how to get a snake into this drain.
The shower never improved though. In fact it got worse. I wonder if I pushed part of the bathtub clog into the shower pipe. It is a drain in the middle of the floor of a shower stall. The toilets, sinks and washer all seem okay, it's just this one shower now. It is a PVC drain in the floor. I can't figure out how to get around this trap and get the snake into the pipe. On plumber's advice I used 16 oz sulfuric acid drain opener. Carefully poured it into the standing water in the drain, and allowed to sit for 1/2 hour. Initially it looked promising, the standing water was gone when I came back, and I was able to run the shower for 60 seconds with no water accumulating, but eventually the water did come back and is now standing in the same spot again.
Is it time to throw in the towel? I'm out of ideas at this point unless I can figure out how to get a snake into this drain.
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