Standing water with Drano in Shower Drain

[MarcMercury]

Alright, so I'm far from a wiz with this stuff, but the shower drain had grown to a crawl I removed the plastic cover and the dirt and crud from it, as it seemed like this was blocking drainage. When that was not the case I plunged the drain and pulled out a bunch of hairballs, which I then assumed was the blockage, but eventually the plunging stopped pulling up anything of notable size, but there still wasn't any drainage. In a bit of stupid desperation I tried pouring liquid drano into the drain. It just mixed with the pool of water, and now I'm not overly eager to try anything hands on. I'm considering funneling some gel drano directly into the drain, but I don't want to if I can help it or if there is a better way of doing it. Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Terry]

I would not touch it with the Draino there. That stuff eats skin.

Normally you would go to a hardware store and pick up a hand snake and clear it with that.

 

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[Reach4]

I would try a medium or small Brasscraft drain bladder. Have a spotter or two to make sure water is not coming up some floor drain, toilet or other low output. I am not a plumber.

 

[Plumber69]

do you have access to your ptrap? you may be wasting your time

 

[MarcMercury]

do you have access to your ptrap? you may be wasting your time

Get this, it's caulked in, which is why I can't really snake it past the first six inches or so (where there is no blockage).

 

[Sylvan]

When someone uses Drano I wait 24 hours before sending anyone over to clear the line plus there is an $85. surcharge

I was testifying in court several years ago when someone used a bladder to clean the line "Brasscraft drain bladder" and the bladder blew out and blinded the maintenance man in one eye from the lye

The reason it went to court is the building super asked "any chemicals used in the line and the renter said no