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Why does water and gunk back up through the overflow hole in the bathroom sink?
When I run the water in my bathroom faucet it sometimes (but not all the time) slowly starts to creep up the overflow hole and pour back into the sink. Included with the water is black and grey gunk. ...
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How to snake a bathtub with no overflow drain?
Our upstairs bath tub has been taking longer and longer to drain and my wife has finally tasked me to fix it.
Yesterday I literally emptied an entire bottle of Liquid Plumber down the drain ...
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How can I remove grout and mortar from a drain?
I accidentally poured some mortar and grout down my bathroom drain when I was cleaning the remains of a bucket of mortar after tiling the kitchen. The drain was plugged up pretty bad so I tried to ...
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How do I remove a wiffle ball from a pool vacuum pipe?
A wiffle ball with a wad of string attached to it is stuck in the skimmer vacuum pipe of the pool at my Dad's place...
It is not completely clogged, but flow is restricted. At a guess, the ball ...
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How should I troubleshoot and unclog an outdoor drain?
Our back concrete patio directs water to a nearby outdoor drain. The drain consists of what seems to be a 5 Inch green PVC pipe with a plastic grate cover that sticks out of the ground a few inches.
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