Zip-It Clean

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.