Oh my God, I actually managed to unclog my kitchen sink drain! Have been trying to solve it for months already. At first I tried Mr Muscle Declogger solvent – bought 2 bottles of those, it only managed to declog the direct kitchen sink pipe but something was still staying stuck inside the drain. So, I figured it was the main kitchen drain to the sewage drain that was stuck. I poked the kitchen floor trap hole using the drain snake cable and found small fragment of dense fat and some small adhesive parts that might have gotten in without me realising. It was still blocked though.
I continued to look for solutions and upon watching YouTube videos, I found a solution by a local plumber suggesting to pump the water and drain with wet mop inside the floor trap hole. I kept digging in the comments, he then suggested to use small towel that could fit in for about a foot and more inside the floor trap hole. I tried that first time, I thought it didn’t work. I was already exhausted and decided to try again another time.
So today, I have another bout of dysregulation, just a mild one. I know because I couldn’t sit still, my mind was wandering around and I kept thinking about eating desserts. Did some stretching and went to the sink to put away dirty dishes. I was so distraught by the blocked sink again that it was getting worse. I couldn’t even wash a single stuff without having the water escaped from the kitchen floor trap drain.
I just boiled a jug and more of water first. Then I stuck a wet towel inside the floor trap, making sure it was secure and compact. I poured all the boiled water inside the sink. The water was stuck there for a bit, and I began pumping the floor trap drain with the wet towel – until I hear the sound of all stuck water moving out of the sink! It was a loud flush sound. Then I did a second round of pumping and boiled another jug of water. The boiled water immediately flowed very fast from the sink unlike the first time around. Then only I thought, hey, it worked!!!! I tested again by washing all the dishes on the sink and watch the floor trap drain. The water didn’t submerge from the drain hole! So that really confirmed it!
I am just so thrilled and so relieved. Didn’t know a clogged kitchen sink could affect my entire routine and being. It was so inconvenient. The thing that I learnt again about me, I was not being so attached to it, it was a normal thing, I wasn’t being too much. So many people are facing the same problem, and it drives them nuts!
For future reference, if this happens again, what I should do is to:
- Boil a jug or more of water
- Block the kitchen floor trap with wet towel all the way inside – use a screwdriver to push the towel in (my drain hole is small)
- Pour the hot water inside the sink
- Pump the drain with towel until all the water from the sink are flushed out
- Repeat the process until the water moves seamlessly from the sink
I am so happy part of the stuff I am annoyed with is already solved. Now I can focus on other stuffs.