Homemade drain cleaner that works!

**ABC in Georgia** · 09-04-2012, 01:10 PM

Have always wanted to add something in here but never have. ...

Keep forgetting to buy *Draino* for my bathroom sinks, so looked up something online just for laughs ... and the blinking thing WORKS!!!

Recipe:

- 1/4 cup baking soda
- 1/2 cup white vinegar

Directions:

- pour baking soda into drain
- follow with vinegar
- wait approx. 10 mins.
- then pour boiling water down the drain ( I used half a kettle full)

Just try it!

~ ABC

**Zeus** · 09-04-2012, 02:01 PM

I've tried that. Yes it does work. I also pack the garbage disposal with ice cubes and turn it on. Cleans the disposal real good.

**linda22003** · 09-05-2012, 02:29 PM

I'm going to be trying it this evening.

I'll report back.

**Rockntractor** · 09-05-2012, 07:03 PM

Does it work on store bought drains?

**Hubie** · 09-08-2012, 11:20 PM

I think I remember hearing about and using that trick years ago. Haven't had a lot of clogged drains to deal with for a while, so I kind of forgot about it.

**Hubie** · 09-08-2012, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Zeus

I've tried that. Yes it does work. I also pack the garbage disposal with ice cubes and turn it on. Cleans the disposal real good.

Does it remove/prevent the rotten smell that often happens?

**ABC in Georgia** · 09-09-2012, 12:00 AM

Love to see men in here. ...

Zeus ... yes, I do that every now and then. Put ice cubes in disposal to clean it out. It does a fine job.

Originally Posted by Hubie

Does it remove/prevent the rotten smell that often happens?

To keep the darn thing smelling nice and fresh, slice up a whole lemon, and put it in once a week or so. Let the water run for awhile, til all the bits are gone, and then smell it.

~ ABC

**Hubie** · 09-13-2012, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by ABC in Georgia

Love to see men in here. ...

Well, those of us who are married are half-women (the better half, of course), so...

To keep the darn thing smelling nice and fresh, slice up a whole lemon, and put it in once a week or so. Let the water run for awhile, til all the bits are gone, and then smell it.

~ ABC

Lemons are organic, though. That doesn't make sense to me. Besides, seems like a waste of a perfectly good lemon.

Back when I worked in a group home with a disposal, I used bleach to kill the rotten odor in the disposal. (And I think I was the only one who ever did that.) I don't know if that was good for the disposal (I was there for several years and nothing bad ever came of it), but it sure was good for our noses.

**Gina** · 09-14-2012, 06:20 PM

Speaking of ice and lemon, for your glass coffee maker pot, fill it half way with ice and a bit of lemon juice .. about a half cup of water and swish it around. Cleans it up nice.