A Serious Toilet Blowout
January 11, 2011, By Greg Hoard 1 comment
Largely because I’ve been a homeowner for nearly 30 years, but primarily because I’m cheap, I’ll tackle about any job around the house that will save money – except one. Toilets.
Let me clarify that. I can handle flushing devices, that sort of thing, but clogs, no. I’m not your man. It’s something about the visuals. It’s something about the nether world of sewage systems and the lurking fear that what’s not mine is coming back my way.
Plungers and snakes only heighten my anxieties.
Is it going through or springing back into the house?
This is probably something I should talk to a therapist about, but low and behold I have found something that eases my phobias.
It’s called the Kleer-Drain™ and it sends the clog the other way.
It’s right out of The Three Little Pigs. “I’ll huff and puff and blow your house down.”
It looks like a bicycle pump and works when a plunger and chemicals don’t.
Here’s how it works:
- It operates on a single CO2 cartridge, which with one push downward on the pump shoots a bomb of air down into the pipe and dislodges the clog.
- If the drain is intensely clogged, a small vinyl disk or collar is attached. That collects the compressed air and lets loose a ball of air pressure which bombs the clog and, presto-chango, you have water flow and nothing foreign flying back at you with strange sounds and smells. (God bless us, one and all.)
It’s great for toilets and patio drains. It retails for $29.98 and can be purchased at Home Depot, Do-It-Best and Right Way.
Just one suggestion: when you are working around toilets it’s good to have a few surgical masks at hand. I’ve looked for “hazmat” suits, but they don’t seem to be readily available.
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