I noticed water backing up into my sink when my dishwasher drains. Oh no, I thought. A partial blockage. I used some Liquid Plumr.
Side note, you go to the store, and there’s big jugs and small jugs and three brands and liquid and “gel” and one part and two part…I don’t know if you’ve seen that youtube short of a tiktok of a Tumblr post talking about how there’s no such thing as “glue”? Well this reminds me of that because who the fuck knows what these substances are?
Anyway I bought one and followed the directions and it didn’t work so I’m probably going to have to take my sink drain apart which isn’t going to be fun.
Those products are inherently flawed as even if they worked, once the drain is already clogged it’s too late. Pouring it down the sink doesn’t do much. What ever little of it reaches the actual blockage has already been dilluted so much it’ll probably do nothing. Conversely, when it’s still draining a bit, the chemicals just flow down the drain instead of doing their job.