General Pipe Cleaners P-25SM Spin Thru Drain Auger with 1/4-Inch by 25-Feet Cable

Great handy product to have around the house! I recently called a plumber to snake out a slow draining sink in my kitchen. They brought in their power auger and had it unclogged in 15 minutes. Great, but then...surprise! I get a bill for &170 for this 15 minutes of work!!! This was a lesson learned and eye-opener for me as I had a similar situation with my bathroom sink drain a couple of weeks later. I purchased this unit and had that pipe unclogged in under 10 minutes!!! Just remember to advance the auger SLOWLY through the pipe to avoid crinkling it and retract slowly as well after clog is penetrated and you should do fine. For clogs further than 25 feet or so you will need a longer auger or...call a plumber. Comparible with units from the big box stores that cost way over twice as much. Save your hard earned money and get this. Highly recommend! Oh, and shipping was super fast as well!

I literally received this drain auger tonight and used it right away. I had a major clogged drain in my bathtub. The water would fill up like i had a stopper on the drain. Before i ordered the product, i watched a youtube video on how to use it. It looked pretty simple. I filled the tub to a point where at least the bottom of the tub was covered...maybe a bit more. The water drains super slow. I removed the cover to the overflow which is above the drain. The issue in my situation as you can see from the photo is that there is this bar in the middle. This is not common. Usually there would be no bar. I believe this is the original tub to the house and maybe this is how it was in the past. The screws were so rusted that i couldn't remove the bar. In any case i had to shove the drain auger above the bar to get it in and down the pipe. There are simple instructions included with this product. Please attached photo. It really works if you follow them. In order to get the auger out of the barrel, you have to loosen the screw. See photo with my thumb. I pull out enough of the auger to push it down the pipe easily until it can't go any further. Then i have about 6 inches at the most sticking out of the overflow. At this point you want to tighten the screw. Now you hold onto the handle and turn the knob clockwise while pushing forward on the auger until it goes further down the pipe and you have reached the overflow. Again you don't have to push too too hard but with a little force. Now you loosen the screw again and pull out another 6 inches of auger. Tighten the screw and again while pushing forward you turn the knob clockwise until you get to the overflow. If the auger doesn't move very well, pull out a few inches of the auger from the pipe and try again with turning the knob and pushing forward. You repeat this process until the water drains. It literally took me less than 10 minutes. I was very impressed! Once the clog is cleared, you loosen the screw and slowly pull the auger back into the barrel. It goes back in very easily. As you can see from my last photo, there was A LOT of hair in the pipe. 😊 that is 5 years of accumulation. I also bought the TubShroom hair catcher specifically for bathtub drains which is available on Amazon. It's meant for 1.5 inch diameter pipes. I am going to use that to see how well it will catch future hair.Just FYI...I am a female with some experience in home improvement. But i haven't dealt with plumbing issues.

Rental house, improperly installed basement shower that piped water to a floor drain by the water heater. Bottoms of walls were rotted when we moved in and we soon found out why. Shower would flood the bathroom regularly. Called slumlord, sent plumber. Landlord charged us without notice. Thing flooded again. No way I'm calling the landlord.Ordered this thing. Failed on the first two tries. Went back, shoved it in there as hard as I could. Finally got it about 20 feet in. When you turn the crank, the tip acts like a screw: it drills into a clog and hooks into it. If you hit a block of hair or something, you'll feel a slight resistance. I hit MAJOR resistance, but it wasn't hard like metal. It was like catching a big fish. I had to pull MUCH harder to get it out this time. Know what I found? A BALLED UP RAG DOWN THE FREAKING DRAIN. 20 FEET BEYOND THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR.Shower runs like a dream now. No more sharing the second bathroom.So grateful for this simple, killer tool. Fantastic bargain for perfect results and peace of mind.I covered the line with tool/gun spray that's supposed to prevent corrosion, as per the suggestion of another reviewer. Too soon to say how well it works, but it seems sensible. I want this thing to last as long as possible.

I don't normally review products but sometimes reviews can be very helpful. This General Pipe cleaner really works. Be sure to review the instructions on how to rotate the tip to penetrate the clog. Be careful not to over pull when removing the clog, if neccessary rotate in the opposite direction and only remove a portion at a time.We had a clog in our central vacumm pipe system fairly deep into the piping. General vacumm junk had, over time, clogged where there was a bend in the piping. This simple tool easily did the trick and avoided very costly alternatives. For the price of the tool, simplicity and effectiveness of how it works, I can easily recommed this product.

Better product out there. Used it once. It made alot of scratches and didnt work. Went straight to the garbage.