You
Will Need:
2
cups baking soda
4
cups boiling water (only if you have metal pipes)
1
cup vinegar
Directions
for Homemade Drain Cleaner
Remove
all water from the sink or tub and pour about 1 cup of baking soda
down the drain. Make sure that baking soda makes it down the drain.
Next,
pour about 2 Cups of boiling water down the drain. The baking soda
mixed with boiling water dissolves the sludge and gunk in the pipe,
even if you don’t see it happening. Wait a few minutes.
Now,
pour another cup baking soda down the drain then add 1 cup of white
vinegar and plug the drain immediately. If you’re unclogging a
double sink, plug both drains. You’ll hear sizzling coming up from
the drain and see bubbles foaming up.
When
the bubbles have died down, add the remaining boiling water down the
drain.
Repeat
this process if necessary.
If
the Drain Remains Clogged
If
the the drain remains clogged after using the homemade cleaner, you
will need to use a small plunger for sinks. The baking soda and
vinegar loosens the clogging material freeing the gunk with the
plunger’s pressure.
Fill
the sink with enough water to seal the plunger around the bottom
against the sink.
Push
down fully and pull up quickly. Repeat if necessary.
How
Does It Work?
Baking
soda is a base and when combined with vinegar, an acid, reacts to
form carbon dioxide and sodium acetate. This presents as the bubbles
scrubbing the drain’s insides. Remember the volcano you built in
science class back in school? Instead of rising up and out, as with
the volcano, it is sent down into the drain dissolving the gunk.
These natural, non-toxic ingredients get flushed further down
ensuring a clog-free drain. Baking soda and vinegar are common,
non-toxic ingredients posing no health dangers when used as
discussed.
A
monthly treatment helps prevent future clogs. Pour a cup of baking
soda down the drains followed by boiling water.