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Easy to Fix a Clogged Sink - No Tools Needed - YouTube
Channel: Tomahawk DIY
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welcome to tomahawk diy everyone today i
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want to take a look at
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unclogging a drain
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so if you have a bathroom sink drain
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that
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the water is backing
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up it can be a pretty easy thing to fix
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so if your sink fills up with water
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after running for a little bit
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and it's backing up it's pretty easy to
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fix
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so let's take a look at how to do that
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when doing this one of the first things
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you want to do is remember you're going
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to be taking off um the drain pipe down
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below so
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i like to do something to remind myself
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not to turn on the faucet um otherwise
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you're gonna send water down uh to a
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place that's not going down the sewer
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all right so under the sink
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first get things cleared out make sure
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you put a bucket
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of some kind under the gooseneck or the
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p-trap you're gonna get a little bit of
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water that runs out
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i may get a little bit smelly as well
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i'll warn you of that
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because uh the purpose of this gooseneck
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here is that there's water that sits in
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here all the time and that water acts as
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a trap to block
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any sewer gas
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from finding its way back up so
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um
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that's if you're ever wondering why
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there's gooseneck that's the reason so
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to
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work on this we're going to
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loosen
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these two
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rings
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some water is going to start coming
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out so just slide this thing down
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like so
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and dump it out and you can see some
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hair in there
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not real pretty sight now the next thing
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we're going to do
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is
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disconnect
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back here
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there's this rod
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that actually goes back to the the
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drain plug up above so to undo that
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we've got to unscrew this
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this one's gotten a little bit of
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corrosion on it
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and we're going to pull out
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pull out the piece okay
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that's going to last pull
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pull this guy out okay we're going to
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set this side but we're going to clean
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this off
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and then you can see all this hair and
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other junk backed up in here so to clean
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it out
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i like to take a newspaper
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and work it down it's going to kind of
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chase everything down into the bucket
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below
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i'm gonna use this big screwdriver uh
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you could do something else in there to
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help push this down once my fingers
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can't get it anymore
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you pull that out at the bottom
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you're gonna send another one down now
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obviously make sure you've taken the
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p-trap off down below before you start
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sending the newspaper down
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otherwise uh it's not going to work so
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well
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we don't want to try and send this down
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to the sewer
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you could use paper towels or
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some other
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soft flexible
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paper we do this so let's see what
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happened down below
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all right so
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now we've
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chased all this junk out
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we're ready to
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work on putting the sink back together
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check out the inside of here see if
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there's anything you need to clean out
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in this case there is
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we got this thing cleaned out
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so now we're going to reconnect it
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slide it up
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and get
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you see there's these
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gaskets you're gonna
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get nice and tight
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right around the edge now
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before i like to just tighten a little
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bit down on one side then come over the
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other side and start tightening
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you can do that
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work your way between the two
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rings on the p-trap as you tighten them
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down
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and that will help the gasket sit nice
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and
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smooth
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and get this guy cleaned off
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hopefully you don't have any drips if
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you do
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tighten things down a little bit more
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if for some reason you need to replace
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some parts i'll include a link down to
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amazon where you can get some
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new p-traps and gaskets and things
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um i like to make sure i've wiped all
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the water off and
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then keep an eye on this over the next
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couple days maybe leave a bucket down
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below
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a dry bucket check on be sure there's no
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water leaking
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so there we have it now we've got our
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sink
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fixed
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and pretty straightforward easy to do
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save yourself some money from calling
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the plumber do it yourself
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thanks for watching tomahawk diy don't
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and have a great day
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