Help please! Blocked bath full of water!

[OldSpeclkledHen]

Morning!

Guess I need baking soda and white vinegar TODAY!

What shop can I get them both from please? SORRY I'm a crap adult and never had to deal with this before 🙄

I'd rather go to a DIY store ? Don't have a B&M, home bargain etc nearby ....

Tia xxx

Wilkinsons own brand plug hole stuff.
It's only £1 (or close) and has a pokey stick, get two or three.
Gotta ladle the water though, bucket down the bog.
Happy Saturday

Any supermarket will have those. Try hoiking out the gunk from the plug hole first.

I have a pokey bendy stick thing with a fuzzy, hair clog catching Velcro-type thingy on the end. It unblocks drains easily from plugs. I think it’s called a drain snake or something like that. I got mine online but I’m sure hardware shops will have similar.

Good luck!

And one of those old fashioned suction cups on a stick - a plunger - can help too. Place over the drain, get a vacuum between the cup and the drain within the water, and pump as vigorously as possible.

Two threads? Really?

Two threads won’t hurt you, Nextphone

Blocked drains can be very anxiety-provoking.

Have you got a wire coat hanger you can unbend and use to furkle down the plug hole first to try and de-gunk it?

And supermarket will have stuff to clean the plug hole; you don’t need a DIY place.

Jesus @Nextphonewontbesamsung chat for traffic but really this is HouseKeeping .... didn't think I'd get much response this early in the morning in that topic ... but words fail me you rude person.

@FredaFrogspawn Thank You!

Thanks everyone else, I'll hit Wilkos later then!

You need to remove blockage, drain unblocker won’t work through standing water, plunging will be you best bet, unsure you get good suction over the plug hole, also use something to stop the air escaping from the overflow. Buildup a lot of pressure, you will probably have a lot of black gunk released, once you have cleared the blockage, then use the drain blockage chemicals to clean out any further gunk in the pipes, works everytime OP.

Screwfix sell a great drain unclogger thing - it’s a wire rod on a spool which you put into the whole then twist to unclog. Works a treat.

Is furkle a real word? If not, it should be!

Forget all that, just boil the kettle and pour the water down
The drain, it'll clear in minutes

A kettle of boiling water won't be boiling when it's added to a bath of cold water.
Once the bath is empty three or four kettles of boiling water will help clear soap scrum though.

Of course furkle is a word. Well it is to me.

Bloody good word.

but you could scoop as much cold water out as you can

baking powder and vinegar otherwise

They sell the twisting drain snake thing plus the heavy duty chemicals at poundland if there's one of those near you

You get these long brush stick things that pull all the hair and gunk out. I got mine from amazon but you should be able to get one in most places

and a plunger