How to Unclog a Tub Drain with Standing Water
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Unclogging a tub drain with standing water using a plunger and a toilet flapper. Tools needed are 1-2 plungers, a flapper, and sometimes a screwdriver to get the overflow plate detached.
After blowing my arms out all day plunging off and on I tried this and it worked in seconds lol you are my hero!!!! Thanks a ton
Nice! Great Job !!
Same here😂...thank you
I put a good garbage bag in the overflow with the tub drain over it to seal and pressed hard, worked like a charm thanks my man :) 🎉
I just did this exact thing and it worked perfectly!! Thank you guys!!!!
Great idea. I'll have to remember that. I used a rag stuffed up in there and it worked after some time.
Thank you so much for sharing this.. I just tried it.. and as you said” I had to get angry with it” and after about 5 minutes or so.. my tub slowly start to drain.. so I plunged just a little longer and BAM💥 .. fast, draining water 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Nice!! 👍
This worked! Bless you! Not all heros wear capes, some have a plunger! God bless our plumbers!
Nice!
I recommend you use baking soda and vinegar, afterwards. To clear out any residue. Let the baking soda and vinager do it's thing for 1 hour and then run hot water for 30 minutes to have a very smooth drain. Do that monthly for prevention. Always remove any hair standing at the top first.
What if I don’t have those things at the moment what can I use substitute for the vinegar and baking soda
Until tonight I had no idea what the cap on the tub. I did it exactly like you showed us. I was amazed at how easy and simple it worked. Thank you so much for helping me.
Sweet! Glad it helped :)
After spendig 100$ and nothing i watch this video and with my house tools i fixed the bathtub. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Thank you!!!!!!! Was dreading the plumber bill I thought I was about to have. I’ve been working on this exact thing for about a month and a half and it’s been miserable but I tried your approach and had it fixed in less than 20 minutes.
I just did my clogged bathtub right now with standing water man, very effective 🙏🏼🙏🏼👍👍💪🏻💪🏻
Nice! Glad to hear that it worked :)
This was AWESOME. My Tub was clogged for a day. This did the trick. Thank you
Glad it helped!
2 days I had troubles and this method is a boss thank you
Thanks :)
It worked!!! I think your the only one who showed how persistent you have to be
Gotta get angry with it sometimes 😀
Thank You so much!!! this method worked after i tried several times snaking the drain to no avail. So simple and effective plugging overflow and using plunger!Thanks a million!!😅😊👌🏼
you weren't lying, getting angry does do it.
i almost gave up after 3 attempts but tried once more. i sighed and was about to walk away but then noticed the nasty debris was sloooowly moving toward the drain. then a whirlpool formed above it! i knew i had won
thanks
Yes now going to my daughter and try this she has a tub clogged as well thank you 🙏
Just did this on our shower works like a champ now, thanks
Sweet glad it helped ✌️
This was so helpful just unclogged our bathroom, thank you!
You are very welcome thanks for watching!
Just fixed mined using this method. You're the BEST!!! 🙏
In UA-cam there is no way anymore to know if the tips in the video are useful or no after they removed the dislike button. I am writing this comment while watching this one.
Before, I used to skip based on the like / dislike button meter. Last night I watched a whole step by step on how to fix your tv and at the end of his steps, the guy smashed the tv and said this is how you fix it! Wasted my time because there is no dislike button. I hope this one is useful.
Well I hope it was useful. I can assure you it works but there are multiple ways to unclog tubs.
@@ApartmentMaintenancePro it is sir, thank you. I hope you understand what I meant and is not toward you brother.
Thanks for this video! I used this method, and it works!
I just tried for 10 minutes, getting real aggressive with it. Doing 10 plunges then stopping and nothing 😢. Do i just keep trying this method or do i have to do another step?
God bless this Guy!
Thank you. I was thinking about calling the service. I've tried a couple of times with a tubing plug, but didn't realize I needed to close the Top hole to pressurize it.🤦
You the truth thank u just fixed my tub
Glad it helped !!
Awesome! This worked! Thank you so much!
Great fuccn info!!!! i appreciate your insight and knowledge my guy!! 5⭐️
Awesome! You just helped me unclog my shower drain :,)
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Great video ,that solve the problem thank you for making the video..
Thanks for watching :)
Thank you, will be getting a plunger soon.
Thanks. Worked like a charm. Saved me a lot of time and money.
This advice was spot on
Best video yet!!!
Ty ty🎉 you a life saver
Glad it helped!!
Tub was slow until Dran-o was poured down yesterday, then working great. Tried sink at same time and some backflow started to come into tub. Now standing water in tub that won't budge with Drain-o. Ok to still try plunging the tub?
First things first never use drano to unclog a drain, it's a dumb solution to the problem that can cause other problems, having said that if I were you I would only plunge that drain now with face shield and long gloves there is a potential for some of it to pull up from the drain and get on you and you do not want drano on your skin.
You are the Man!!!!
Thanks buddy
bro this was sikk asf n worked thank u so much i didn’t even need to plug the hole i jus uncapped it, n plunged n it worked
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I did this and it worked. It took like 3 times but finally the clog unlogged
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Thank you so much your video saved my life ! 😊
Your welcome Kayla!
I like the flapper idea
I just applied a rag under the leakage and used a plunger and it worked
Nice!
Going go try this when I get home . Hopefully it works.
Update : works . Used KleenOut Sulfur Drain cleaner to make sure pipes were clean and it works after 2 months of having clogged slow pipes the pipes are like brand new ! Try this method
Thanks! Gonna try this now.
This worked. Thank you.
You're welcome!
gonna try this I’ll update if this works hopefully 🙏🏽
Will be trying this. Will be providing an update with results.
How did it go??
@@ApartmentMaintenancePro didn’t work for me. I think it’s a deeper clog than I expected
@@blackkmagik929 same, it works for a little bit but it seems I get black moldy chunks of tile or wood coming out and I tried a drain snake but it just goes out the other pipe thats attached to the overflow.
Good video
Thanks it worked 💪🏾
Sweet!
awesome video
glad you liked it thanks for watching!
Any hints if I’ve done this along with removing hair, vinegar and baking soda, plus Draino Max?? All other drains in the house are working. I’ve made the mistake of bathing our Golden Retriever in this tub for the past year so really feel like it is hair plus products that have clogged it.
You may have to rent/buy a small hand snake (auger) and run it through the over flow plate
what if i don't have that kind of plunger? will it not be as effective?
most plungers should work
Forgive me for the perhaps unintelligent question but do you need to shut your water off before doing any of this? I live in a mobile home and the water won't drain in the bathtub.
No
So u took it off just to cover it again? I don’t get it
Can I try this with duct or construction tape?
Great question.
WTH are u using to plug the overflow.
Flapper. A wet rag works too
Helpful thank you.
Thanks for watching Braydon!
I'm going to try it and come back
Did it work
I don’t have an extra flapper. What else can I use?
Rag, plunger, anything that can fill the hole and can be easily removed 👍
@@ApartmentMaintenancePro yes i did use an old rag that was laying around and everything worked
I think the better you can seal the overflow the better it will work
For sure 👍
@@ApartmentMaintenancePro i also tried the c02 plunger thing from homedipo that sells around 27$ on one of my sinks that the snake didn't want to go through and one's i set it up it took like 5 seconds to unclog it and it was amazing seeing the sink drain so fast. But I had the fear of bursting a pipe lol easy no mess that was the greatest part.
@@transam8607 One of my co workers had one of those and swore by it. They do work pretty well :)
@@ApartmentMaintenancePro it's a great feeling when you hear the berst of the co2 and instantly unclugs and the water drains really fast it's so good and powerful makes you worry about pipes bursting but maybe I just got to get use to it so my fear go's away. I only tried it once and I love it.
Thank you 😊
It worked. Thanks
I have a question? My tub has a made in drain stopper. How do I try this that way? The plunger closes the hole each time
There should be a way to remove the drain stopper
I have the flip switch thing any way around that?
worked thank you !
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Worked!!
Draino 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
it worked thanks
Does this work for a sink?
Yes as long as you can cover the overflow vent
Okay so how to I get the overflow plate off if my screws are stripped?
There are tons of videos on how to remove stripped screws but I would try some silicone spray and channel locks and manually turn the screw out.
Thank you!!!
I did everything you said yet it still won't drain
You may need to snake the drain through the overflow plate
Thank you
Awesome
You just got lucky
I been getting lucky for 20 years then
It worksssss!!!! 😭
It worked! Thank you! (I used a rag instead)
Good work, keep the videos coming and build the channel. I just hit 100 Subscribers on my channel after 5 months. Takes time & patience. 👍
Thank you, will be getting a plunger soon.
Thank you!!!!