The Auldridges

So, apparently when your 3 year old son pours gerbil food down the drain of the bathroom sink, you won’t have any problems–at first. Yes, it seems to just go right down the drain, so you don’t worry too much.

But then, over a few days, flow through the drain slows to a halt. Hmmm, you say, I suppose that stuff has caused a problem. I’ll just open up the P-trap and clean it out.

So you do. Everything from the sink basin to the wall is all clean. You even pulled a ‘AA’ battery out of the P-trap. Job well done. So you reassemble and let the water run.

What’s this? Still clogged!!?? Oh my.

So off you go to Home Depot. Being the think-ahead type you buy a sink plunger, a ‘Zip-It’, and a drain cleaning bladder. You come home and plunge and plunge and plunge. But nothing moves.

So you disassemble the drain again and look into the wall pipe with a flash light. My but there’s some odd fibery stuff in there. So you grab the Zip-It and go at it!

Up comes mud and roots attached to little kernels of grain! Woo-hoo, harvest came early this year! That’s right, keep running that Zip-It in and out of the pipe–get it all out!

Now you re-assemble the pipe and test it again. All better! That drain runs smoothly and you got some grain and a battery out of it! Thanks 3 year old son.

Yes, this is a true story about how I spent my evening today. At least I can return the drain cleaning bladder since I didn’t need it.