TO UNCLOG DRAIN 1. Insert into drain – 2. Push all the way in. – 3. Pull out clog – IT'S THAT SIMPLE!
Congratulations to our good friend RadTech92! His video of yanking a 5 foot Chewbacca out of his bathroom drain made it onto Tosh.0 on Comedy Central last night. Here, for an encore presentation, is the now famous video. Chewbacca shows up at the 50 second mark. Good Job RadTech92!
Here’s a guy wearing a Mario Brothers (yes, Mario, the plumber) cap, doing a bit of unclogging himself. Actually it’s a Super Mushroom cap so I’m stretching it a bit here, but if the folks in the video can make the connection, so can I.
This party in the bathroom (I hear 3 distinct people in this video. Officially a party if it’s in a bathroom) are clearing the tub from the overflow drain. This guy keeps going back for more, and keeps coming up with more.
Good stuff at :10, 1:03, 1:13 & 1:26 where he also pulls out an outlet cover – you know, to protect the children.
Like a silent movie this one plays out without any sound at all. If you have a piano laying around, you might want to play a little background music. This guy cleans out both his tub AND his sink. So be prepared to play two different tunes for the mood change.
Good stuff at :22 for the tub and :56 for the sink. For those of you playing the piano, the mood switch is at :52.
If there is an overarching theme to many of these videos it is this: What you pull out of your drain smalls bad. That might go without saying, but then again, it is worth a mention. So, as the cameraman tells our lovely hostess at about 1:34, “Don’t Smell It”. Sage advice, my friend. Sage advice.
Good stuff at 1:04. “Don’t smell it” at 1:37.
This one is rather long, but it’s kinda fun. These girls squeal a lot when yanking out a nasty wad of hair which, in some strange way, adds to the tension. By the time they yank out a pretty decent size bug at 2:19 you’ll be squealing right along with them.
I also want to congratulate them for creating the first video that captures pulling something other than just hair out of a drain. Way to go girls!
Not only does this guy yank out a worthy competitor to the one highlighted one Tosh.0, he is captured actually gagging at the end of the video. Man Up, Dude! This is unclogging drains. It ain’t supposed to be pretty.
Okay, so I KNOW what comes out of a drain when a person uses Zip-It. I’m a bit jaded, what can I say. But this is a doozy. Not just what Zip-It yanks out, but all the stuff that comes after.
You want to know why your drains are running slow? Watch this (good stuff at 1:20):
When you are standing ankle deep in water while taking a shower, you might think to yourself, “Hmm, drain must be clogged”. Your thought probably doesn’t go much further than that. You don’t think about what exactly is causing the clog, just that there IS a clog.
Zip-It will certainly correct your problem. And you will find out what is clogging your drain. For the most part you can expect hair. 99.9% of clogged drains are caused by hair that naturally falls off your body. (It’s quite a lot. You’ll see for yourself when you use the Zip-It).
The other 00.1% of clogs are caused by something else. Our customers have been kind enough to share with us some of those other things that have plugged up their drains. Here are, in no particular order, 10 strange things caught in a drain:
So use Zip-It and find out what’s clogging your drain. If! You! Dare! Yeah, that’s right. That’s a challenge. Use a Zip-It and let us know what you find. They say Atlantis is hidden under a bunch of water. Perhaps it’s in your tub.
In existence since 2900 B.C. the city of Babylon had produced systems of writing and communication, literature, a codified set of laws, a calendar and system for ascertaining time. Wheeled vehicles became common – and water management evolved into irrigation dams, drains, basins, and personal bathrooms of their era’s rich and famous.
Yet the Zip-It wasn’t invented for another 4,900 years. Babylonians! Feh!
It’s hard to imagine what the ancient Babylonians went through when their drains clogged up.
Budding plumbers worked with clay mixed with finely chopped straw. Bronze was introduced about 2500 B.C. from outlying trade routes.
The rich households and the palaces had separate bathrooms; that is, rooms in which to “bathe” or refresh oneself with water or anointing of oil. Most sources agree that there were no bathtubs during this period of history. Nebuchadnezzar’s “bath” in all actuality was a shower, as slaves poured water over him as he washed with a soap made of ashes of certain plants and fats. Due to the texture of the concoction, his “shower” was probably like a detergent rinse.
It is thought that men who sought an audience with their ruler performed a kind of ritual washing before entering his sacred presence. Drains have been found beneath the hard-tamped floor of an anteroom. They were made from pots whose bottoms had been knocked out, set against a row of bricks that had been set on edge to form the rim of a basin.
Archaeologists have found evidence of systems for disposal of human waste in dwellings 10,000 years old. Waste disposal and running water were commonly incorporated in the palaces of royalty and priests as early as the time of the Indus Valley civilization (about 2500 to 1700 BC), and these systems were well developed during the Roman Empire. Plumbing was a firmly established feature in dwellings of even the less affluent by the end of the 19th century.
Up until the modern era, with the advent of Zip-It, the most used most widely used method of dealing with clogs was cursing. Zip-It is far more effective.
Every year 1700 people suffer injuries from chemical drain cleaner accidents ranging from minor skin burns to total blindness. If improperly used a chemical drain cleaner can be one of the most hazardous household products you can buy.
Common ingredients in chemical drain cleaners include lye or sulfuric acid. These extremely corrosive chemicals work by eating away materials, including your skin if it should come in contact. Don’t look down a drain after you’ve added a chemical cleaner. Acids can produce toxic gas or can cause water in the pipe to boil and blow back acid out of the drain and into your eye or onto your skin.
Needless to say, chemical drain cleaners are horrible for the environment. Treatment plants cannot break down many household hazardous wastes. Instead, some chemicals may pass through the system without treatment and flow into lakes and rivers. In some cases, the chemicals can damage the treatment process so that even sewage is not treated and empties into the water table.
Zip-It is a far safer and more effective solution to your clogged drain problems. Zip-It is a long, thin, flexible piece of plastic with barbs running along its edge. Push it into a clogged drain, pull it back out, and this simple little tool will pull the clog out. Zip-It is that easy. And it feels good not pouring gallons of dangerous chemicals into the water supply.
Never use Zip-It on a drain after you’ve poured in a drain cleaner, because of a caustic splash back. If your clog won’t clean after you’ve poured down a cleaner, call a plumber and explain the situation.
