Drainsoon 30-Inch Steel Sink Snake Drain Remover30-Inch Steel Sink Snake Drain Remover

These things are perfect!! I have shoulder length hair and when I put product on my hair and rinse my hands hair always gets rinsed down before I can grab it all. The water had been backing up while the faucet was running for a while and was getting worse – I had poured Gel Drain cleaner in it and it helped, but not enough. I pulled out one of these things and ran in down the drain hole and twisted it around several times and pulled it up – I couldn’t believe all the hair that came up. I cleaned it off as good as I could and run it down and again and twisted it round and round again – I got very little the second time and the water is flowing just like the day the sink was put in!! I highly recommend!!

I ordered these to clean my shower drain, but it’s too large to fit easily through the drain cover. It works great on the sink drain, though, so I’m okay. Will keep looking for something narrower for the shower.

Kitchen sink clogged with gunk and hair. Tried this wand and it seemed on the one hand too stiff to push past the U bend in our sink pipe…but it was also too floppy to use any force to push it harder. If we pushed harder, it just bent in the upper portion. Gentle pushing was not enough to get the lower part past that U. So this did not work for us.

I wish I had a mini toilet snake. The metal kind with the stiff upper tube and a metal snake inner tube that you can wind through the U once you’ve got the stiff part pressed way down there. That works so well with all the bends in our toilet pipes. Will probably have to unscrew the U pipe on our kitchen sink and clean it that way.

EDIT: I did finally manage to wiggle it through the U by first bending the velcro-type tip substantially before sending it through the pipe. However, it turns out it wasn’t long enough to reach whatever’s in there. So I might still use it once I take apart the pipe.

Love these things. We moved into our apartment and previous tenants had clogged our shower drain such that it look 30min to an hour for the water to drain. This was leaving soap scum, skin and other crud to settle and create an awful mess we had to clean after every shower (which was also complicated due to lack of aforementioned drainage).

My roommate wanted to just drownnit in draino it and call it a day, but I preferred more manual means, so I searched and bought these guys.

They are excellent. The sturdiness of the wire means you can push this puppy deep into the problem and also means you can rotate the cord quite a bit with no worry of breakage. I’m never using those awful plastic bastards ever again, not if I can get my hands on these.

I will say, unlike said plastic bastards, I would not recommend trying reusing these at all. The bristles hold onto hair and do not let go. It’s great for the job but not so much if you’re looking to clean it off and save it for the next time your drain is plagued with the clog from hell.