Betsy has been complaining that her tub is draining slowly....so, armed with my "professional tub-unplugging tools" (a flashlight and my pointy tweezers), I decided this morning to check it out. Holy smokes....no wonder it won't drain....it's really amazing that the girl has any hair left on her head, seeing how much is knotted and twirled around the metal pieces down there. (Notice I also use the proper plumbing terms....).
Anyhow, I spent quite a while picking and tweezing at gross, soap scummed hair, only to have about 3/4 of it left in there, unreachable to my skilled hands. I didn't know what to do....and then, a light from above....I like to think it may have been a subliminal message from Martha....I thought, I wonder what would happen if I squirted some Nair down there to dissolve the hair! Of course, I was out of Nair, however Betsy did have a can of Veet, which is essentially the same thing. So I grabbed the can and squirted away, filling the drain with the foul smelling lotion. I let it sit for about ten minutes, then turned the water on as hot as it would go....and would you believe it....it worked!
I decided to double my insurance and went and got my draino. I put some of the crystals down there and heard their "sizzle"....I'm waiting right now until it's time to flush it with the cold water. I'm hoping that the "sizzle" was the sound of the draino eating away at my clog, and not eating a hole through the pipes because it reacted chemically with the Veet. I am pretty sure those little crystals are strong....as my hand is burning and tingling....I probably should have had rubber gloves on whilst pouring it down the drain....
Well, the timer has gone off so I must get back to my housework drudgery....here's hoping my drains will be free and clear!
20 comments:
Too funny! Good for you for using a little women's ingenuity! I have the same problem since Ihave a lot of thick hair. I take theplunger to it about once a month, BEFORE it gets slow to drain, and that seems to keep it at bay. Then I don't have to worry about the chems either! I am fairly certain that you have rubber gloves in your house! hehe, Cya, Kris
ahhhhhhh veet good idea LOL YOu know it really might send some weird chemically enhanced hair ball like in the sci fi movies up to attack your family!!!!! LOL I hate those yucky hair balls. I am glad we got the new pop u and down drain plug no more hair balls in the tub ont he wire grate thank GOD. How is your furbaby today??????? Lori
You are a true household genius Sherry.What a great idea.They make these plastic things that you put on top of the drain and it traps the hair before it goes down the drain.That would probably help.Have fun cleaning.I need to get off my butt and start digging in.KIM
wow you are my idol!! Now you need to bottle the stuff with your own logo on it...and I'll buy some :)
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Wow - How clever you are! :-) I probably wouldn't have thought of that.
Hoping to be like you someday,
Holly
Ewwww!!! I hope all the hair is gone once you go back and check it!!! My daddy used to complain all the time about my hair clogging up our bathroom drain...now hubby complains about it...LOL! *~*Emily
HAHAHA MARTHA WOULD BE PROUD! Hugs Lanny
LOL YOU ARE A GENIUS! Someone should email this to Martha. I bet she'd be holding back tears! hehe
Micheyle
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GGGGRRRR...girls & hair! Bane of my life. I did have white paintwork in the bathroom but now it's all slattered & stained from messy hair dying sessions. We also have regular unblocking of the drains....yuk! Although I never thought of Nair!!!
I can handle poo, vomit, phlegm, and other nasty bodily fluids at the hospital. What I can't stomach is what you've just described!
~Erin
LOL!!! I have done the tweezer thing...but Veet and Draino...may have to try that one!! Good idea!!
*hugs*
You better wear gloves next time. That stuff is dangerous. I think it tells you to on the bottle. I shed just like betsy. I lose 1/8th of my hair after every wash.
Great idea about the Nair/Veet!! I am constantly pulling out wads of hair in our shower because of my hair and Bethany's. We lose like handfuls with each shower we take. I am surprised we have any left on our heads too!! I will have to remember that trick you used though (not the crystals one!) for the next time it clogs! :)
Hugs and love, Lisa
LOL, you are so smart to think of something like Nair or Veet!
So what color did you decide to get this morning? ~Melissa
This happens in my house all the time, but probably less so now that one of the big hair people has moved out.
I am so sorry you had to suffer thru the agony of wet hair in a drain!! It's like the grossest thing- you would laugh if you saw me trying to rid my tubs of hair. We're not even talking bravery enough to consider a drain problem!! I pick hairs up that cling to the tub walls with two fingers, touching as little of the hair as possible without losing it back to the tub, I squeeze my eyes shut each time and have a disgusted wrinkled look on my face. My stomach gets a weak and queezy feeling and I honestly feel as though I'm going to lose whatever may be in the tummy! And I make these squeamish frustrated sounds along with the process- like: Oh groooooooooss! Ickkkkkky! YYYYYuckyyyyy! Anyone in the room wants to leave rather than hear me wine and complain. Can ya believe I own a cleaning and maintenance business? It gets worse if I encounter bugs of almost any kind! Then I start screaming as the bugs go up thru the vacuum-- and sometimes the screaming turns into half crying-- sometimes it develops into half tears and half laughing and hysterics. It's bad these phobias of mine.
Hugs,
Lisa
I'd never have thought of using Nair or Veet, what a wonderful idea. So, did everything clear up OK in the very end?
Monica
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Sounds like yet another hairy situation. I think what you did was very clever Sherry. Sometime it amazes me that you come up with those ideas of yours. Where in Heaven did you get your ability to figure these things out? Maybe you were a plumber in another life? Who knows? OceanMist a.k.a. Mom
Been there done that lol its gross
lol Caitlins hair does the same thing! I try and keep draino on hand just for that event. Great tip about the Veet! lol
Gretchen
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