Before applying a plunger to the kitchen sink drain, put something over the attached draining board drain. Or at least move the draining rack & clean dishes well away.
Oh, and what should I put down the draining board drain, & how often, to keep cack from building up in there?
Could be worse.
You could have plunged the toilet while Mrs Funk was in the bath.
Hot water with some washing-soda in it. Weekly.
Owain
Caustic potash.
I don't know. I have a supply of CP.
:-)
To stop the loss of pressure from the overflow, I use one of those old plastic bottle cap things held over it as I plunge.. is that the term, the drain.
Brian
Caustic in boiling water once every few months is good. But beware, its a nasty eye eating spitting preparation, eye protection vital.
NT
I thought we all had - and probably more than once!
Oh, no. Carefully pour the water into the toilet. Then rinse the crud off the U-bend gaskets. In the sink...
Thomas Prufer
The comedy situation you envisage can't happen here, with a traditional (i.e., old-fashioned) system (the waste pipe from the bath goes right out the wall and runs into a hopper, whereas the soil pipe is separate from everything else until it goes underground).
Good plan (safer to mess with than caustic soda).
Yup, that's the trick...
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