Thursday, September 13, 2007

Unexpected treasure

I noticed my guest bathtub was draining real slowly. I was gonna call the plumber to get it unclogged but decided that I'd try to do it myself. Harbor Freight, land of cheap tools (and sometimes too cheap) was also having a sale on the cheapie but powerful impact wrench. I decided to head down there since I missed the last sale they had on the air impact wrench, and noticed they had a plumbing snake on sale as well. The housing was made out of plastic and looked fairly cheap, but it was on sale for $14. I decided to give it a shot, since a plumber would probably charge me close to $100 to unclog the drain. I also bought the impact wrench I wanted which was perfect since I needed to change my brake pads.

I used my impact wrench to take the nuts off the wheels (It's really nice having a impact wrench to do that) and only had enough time to replace the front brakes.

Afterwards, I decided to to try to tackle the drain in the second bathroom. As soon as I unscrewed the drain stopper, I saw a huge amount of hair and some plastic pieces. I was able to pull most of it with just my fingers, and then used the snake to pick up the rest more easily. When it was all pulled out, I had a pile of hair the size of a large rat. Yuck! I also noticed all of the hair is long and blonde, which points straight at my ex-roommate. Although I'm not sure where the two small plastic pieces came from.

2 comments:

Ben said...

Yeah, that hair-in-the-drain stuff is pretty nasty. We have a drain catcher over the one in the bathtub now, so that after each shower, she just has to lift off the little seaweed patch and flush it, instead of us having to fish a cat out of the drain when it clogs up every week.

cindy said...

was the plastic clear? and kinda c-curved from a certain angle? I'm thinking razor pieces.

so what was the unexpected treasure, your new hairball?