My day of turmoil trying to find and buy a sink and drain plunger!

[Chislenko]

Currently sitting at number 2, but looking unlikely now to reach number 1 by my predicted time of 2pm.... all thanks to @Cycleops coming on a cycling forum and posting a new thread with some relevance to cycling. How quaint and old fashioned!

Some people just have no etiquette 😊

 

[Dogtrousers]

How does the algorithm work? How do we boost Accy's masterpiece?

 

[Brandane]

Got there!! But slightly later than my prediction:

 

[Time Waster]

The shop a minute down the road had 5 black ones with the flat plate above the rubber cup part for toilet use, three brown ones for sink use and a couple of those terribly flimsy blue ones. They're now one less in store but we're now one up, just in case.

 

[fossyant]

I'll raise you a plunger...

https://ridgidtoolshop.co.uk/access...N_dTCRZPwJ7iO_MfQXRfR-IELNDMfyxhoCILEQAvD_BwE

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How about this plunger which comes complete with a robot to do the plunging? It can also make a wicked scrambled egg.

 

[wiggydiggy]

How about this plunger which comes complete with a robot to do the plunging? It can also make a wicked scrambled egg.


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It's a fine plunger but it's a Cyborg it's attached to not a Robot.

 

[Accy cyclist]

My my, doesn't word get around the blocked drain community! One of the neighbours I phoned yesterday to ask if they had a plunger only came and knocked on my door a short while ago asking If I'd found one. When I said yes she asked "well could I borrow it as my kitchen sink is blocked up with carrot and potato peelings". She's now had my sink plunger about half an hour. I hope she brings it back and doesn't conveniently forget to!!🤔

 

[fossyant]

My my, doesn't word get around the blocked drain community! One of the neighbours I phoned yesterday to ask if they had a plunger only came and knocked on my door a short while ago asking If I'd found one. When I said yes she asked "well could I borrow it as my kitchen sink is blocked up with carrot and potato peelings". She's now had my sink plunger about half an hour. I hope she brings it back and doesn't conveniently forget to!!🤔

You've swished all your soil into their drain ?

 

[Accy cyclist]

You've swished all your soil into their drain ?

I should've just said no I couldn't find one. Something tells me it's gonna take some effort to get it back!!🤔🧐

 

[fossyant]

I once blocked our sink from far too much rice in various bowls. Couldn't shift it, so bought a 'compressed air' unblocker - basically a can and a rubber cup. Press button and 'boom' clears the block. Loads of fun, but I guess if the plumbing is a bit old it could blow seals out.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I once blocked our sink from far too much rice in various bowls. Couldn't shift it, so bought a 'compressed air' unblocker - basically a can and a rubber cup. Press button and 'boom' clears the block. Loads of fun, but I guess if the plumbing is a bit old it could blow seals out.

I was offered one of those yesterday for 15 quid. I was going to buy it but then noticed the can was narrower than my shower drain hole. I don't think they'd work on showers and if they did, wouldn't loads of gunk get blasted back in one's face?🤔

 

[fossyant]

I was offered one of those yesterday for 15 quid. I was going to buy it but then noticed the can was narrower than my shower drain hole. I don't think they'd work on showers and if they did, wouldn't loads of gunk get blasted back in one's face?🤔

£15, wow...

 

[Accy cyclist]

£15, wow...

Yeah, that's what I thought! I thought he said £1.50 at first. I was going to buy it for that, but when he said 15 quid I thought...

 

[Pat "5mph"]

How did I miss this thread yesterday?!
All these years, I was imagining @Accy cyclist's palm plant (as he calls it), like a miniature palm.
I did wonder in the past what it looked like: Accy, that is not a palm, that is a Yucca plant!
Don't give it too much water, especially this time of year. Treat it like a cactus.
Re plungers: I don't have any.
The shower plughole gets soda crystals and boiling water once a year, the kitchen sink (often blocked by cat food jelly) gets unblocked by opening the waste pipe