Zip-It Clean

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:

1. Hair Curlers
2. Sponge
3. Toothpaste Cap
4. Toothbrush
5. Nickel
6. Diamond Ring
7. Action Figure Arm
8. Condom
9. Fingernail Clipper
10. Sasquatch

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.

There is a safer way to clean your drains

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.

You lose 100 hairs a day.  Where do they all go?

The average human has 100,000 hairs on their head.  Blondes have more hair with around 140,000 while redheads have the least with about 90,000.  The average adult will lose between 60 and 100 hairs every day.  Most of these go down a drain.  But where is the clog?

Many people believe hair will collect in the trap and form a clog.  But the trap is not designed to protect your drains from stuff being dropped down the sink.  It is there to prevent sewer smells from rising into your house.  So again, where does all that hair go?

Most modern drains come with a stopper mechanism, a series of levers located just below the opening of your sink, tub or shower that opens and closes the drain.  While a great convenience, it is here, at the stopper mechanism, where 90 percent of clogs form.  Your hair slips down the drain and catches on a bar just a few inches below where it disappears from your sight.  It hangs there and builds up with all your other hairs until a clog forms.  So what’s the best way to remove all those hairs hanging on your stopper mechanism?

Not chemical drain cleaners.  Because they’re a liquid they pour into the trap.  But we already know there aren’t any clogs there.  Chemical drain cleaners flow right past problem.  Now you know why they never work.

The best solution is  Zip-It.  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 Zip-It will pull out all your missing hair.  Zip-It is designed to deal precisely with what a clog is: your hair caught on a stopper mechanism.  No other tool on the market targets the problem so specifically.