I am 17 years old and my bathroom sink is clogged apparently with a lot of hair from a year ago and I have told my guardian a numerous amount of times that its having that problem and it needs to be fixed as soon as possible but since they arent doing anything about it then I need to take matters into my own hands and try to fix it and I dont have much money right now so this needs to also be average or cheap. Some one please help oh and tell me where I could also get it.
you need draino or liquid plumber - can get it at the drugstore, supermarket, almost everywhere.
Aside from liquid cleaner, you can use a vacuum attachments which fits your bathroom sink to remove the hair there and unclog your bathroom. Try Vaccuflex.
Elhigh has it right. Cleaning a sink is not that hard depending on the type of drain you have. Clean out underneath the sink, remove everything, put down a bucket and some towels, unscrew the device that holds the plug, the thing that keeps the water from going down the drain. Once the drain plug is out, use a flashlight to see where the obstruction is. Usually hair. I use a eight to twelve inch piece of metal coat hanger with a little hook on the end to pull the gunk out. Then I wipe the gunk off with paper towels. Just make sure the sink is not full of backed up water when you take it apart
Before you waste any money on those one-shot solutions, try this: Find a largish pair of pliers and take the P-trap under the sink loose. Put a bucket or large bowl under before you get it loose. Any water still in the pipe and sink will come out. Tip the P-trap (it's called that because of its shape, not because it's full of pee) and look in it. Can you see the clog right there? Fish it out. Problem's fixed, no money spent. No clog? Reach up into the tailpiece coming down from the sink. Sometimes the clog gets stuck up there (weird when it does, but it happens). Reach into the pipe going into the wall. Fish around, try everything. A cheap drain snake costs about what a gallon of Drano costs, and besides working better, works over and over. Try that instead. Your Drano you use one time and it's gone; the drain snake you use now, hang it up and use it next time, and next time, etc. Got it all? Great, put it all back together. Check for leaks. Job's done! Got a leak? Make sure the washers are pointing the right direction, if they have a shape. Rubber ones are just rectangular in section, hard plastic ones are cones. The nut bears against the flat side, the sharp side wedges between the two pipes as you tighten the nut. Good luck with it.
