656602 Drain Cleaner, Grey

It took me a while, but I managed to unblock the outdoor drain from the kitchen with this great and cheap bit of kit. I used a combination of the silverline cleaner and a running hosepipe and after a couple of hours going at it again and again, I was able to feed the whole 10m length into the drain pipe and spin the crank without the unblocker twisting up. The result is that the water level in the drain trap is the lowest it's been since we moved in over three years ago - so it looks like the blockage had been there for a long time. I marked the cleaner with a marker pen at 1m intervals (1 stripe for 1m, 2 stripes for 2m etc) so I could see how far in I was. Kept hitting something at 7m but kept at it and finally got through. Very rewarding when you realise you've sorted it and saved a few hundred quid in the process!

Managed to clear waste pipe from kitchen sink - takes some time particularly to get round bends but it cleared blockage well. Quality is good for price. If you need to clear a large diameter drain this product may be too small of a diameter to shift significant blockages.

I was a bit worried about buying this, as several people seemed to have quite negative experiences. However i have been really impressed with this simple bit of kit, which allowed me to push through from my saniflow drain all the width of the house and identify the site of the blockage on an outside wall. so, no, it didn't save me the price of a plumber's callout (i don't fancy going up the ladder) but it did allow me to diagnose the problem and save plumber time and hassle. a few things to note: - it is quite big and heavy. 9mm diameter x 10 length is a lot of steel so don't expect it to come through the letterbox. there's a 3m snake on amazon which will. - because it's so long it's probably overkill for something no more than a couple of metres into your waste pipe....at that distance you can't really get any rotation by turning the handle cos you're turning 8m of cable around your bathroom like a skipping rope - it's very flexible and it does go round corners in standard 32mm diameter waste pipe, pretty easily - it seems pretty sturdy. you'd have to try pretty hard to put a kink in it - it probably wont go down a sink drain unless you pull the centre grid out first. try a narrower diameter snake if you can't get past that.

Good for easy to unblock clogged pipes but if that’s something more sturdy this item is too weak

needed full length 10 metre to reach blockage as drain runs full length of our house and access is rubbish. used this once to clear blockage and once when pipe was froze (remember -18 not long back) this even mashed up ice inside pipe!as far as im concerned it's paid for its self already, will use again to maintain clear drains once a month as our kitchen waste blocks up to easy as the run of the pipe was fitted by stevie wonder. do buy the length you need tho as this 10metre snake may be awkward to use if you only need to clear 2metres. i do keep it coiled up in the bag it came in and its fun to un-ravel! great product

Very pleased with this product

I must congratulate myself on the fantastic judgement I showed in buying this 10m x 9mm snake from Silverline. I bought it because SIlverline products are nomally up to the job and because one reviewer said if you keep going with this thing it always get shte blockage. So here is my story. The Kitchen sink blocks up about once a year and the last time we got expnsive plumbers who could not move it with a plunger but needed really long flexible poles. So I started with Mr Muscle, which helped a tiny bit, then tried Slam, which did nothing. Then I thought, no point in messing about. Take the U bend out and get a serious snake. I found the blockage about 3 metres down. So any snale less than 3m long would have been useless. Then the silverline snake would just bump into it and not get through it. So I started slamming the thing into the pipe using my hand to grab the snake about 6 inches before the pipe (any longer and it would buckle). That is when I realised that turning the thing ansd screwing the spinrg up more make it more rigid. But htat is hard to do when the end is 6 metres away and the thing should be more or less striaght. So I went off and srewed it tight and then stuck a suticase on the handle and went back to slamming the snake into the clog by gripping the more tightly would coil 6 inches from the start of the downlfow pipe. Eventullay after maybr 25 slams in went in a bit further. I thought WOW: Rhis is not going to be quick. So then I wnet into macho agressive mode and slammed and slammed the clot until when I was lcose to giving up it suddenly moved. That was not the end of the matter. I then pushed it all 10m of the snake down the drain and pulled the snake back and it came back to about 5m then stopped because the clog was still stuck on the end. So I back and forward it until it loosened and lushed the clog all 10 metres then withdrew the snake. Then I poured down a litre of MR muscle to stop anything coming back. The moral of the story is yes. I think a 10m x 9mm snake with get everything eventually and a 1.5m x 6mm snake will get nothing. BUT you need a good technique. You need to get really agressive just keep slamming until something happens.

took me a couple of hours to clear the waste pipe. the builders had left a 2m section fa=lat with no incline at all, so once i sorted that out and had some fall in the pipe i could work on the clogged loo.the toll works ok but is weak. For the price you get what you pay for. It saved me hundreds. If I had called a plumber it could have cost me up to £200. So for less than 10% of that I'm happy to have got some exercise and a cleared pipe.

Funcionó finalmente. Era un atasco que taponaba totalmente el flujo de agua en el desagüe de la cocina. El tapón estaba a unos 5 metros, al principio era imposible pasar de ahí por más fuerte que intentara empujar con el cable, es increíble la fuerza que pueden adquirir estos tapones de cal y grasa en las tuberías. Eché desatascador químico (genérico de supermercado, nada profesional) lo deje actuar unas horas. Después eché una olla de agua hirviendo para ablandar y volví a la carga con el cable. Todavía estaba difícil pero después de 10 minutos dando golpes con el muelle empezó a entrar. Después fue seguir rascando. Ahora traga agua perfectamente de forma continuada a máximo caudal. Habrá que pasar el cable de forma preventiva regularmente porque parece ser un codo que inevitablemente acumula restos de cal y grasa.

Je vous épargne les détails mais il nous à sauvé la maison. Pratique qualitatif. 10/10

Acquistato per problema allo scarico della cucina... Dopo aver smontato i tubi ho inserito la trivella direttamente nello scarico... ci vuole un po di pazienza x superare le curve... ma alla fine fa bene il suo lavoro

J'avais une canalisation d'évacuation de cuisine qui était complètement bouchée (tuyau PVC de diamètre 40). Aucun système d'aspiration puis pression n'en venait à bout. Mon plombier est venu avec un furet de 5 m, il a passé beaucoup de temps et a un tout petit peu débouché la canalisation et pensait qu'il faudrait ouvrir le mur. Mon problème de tuyau bouché était donc vraiment difficile, j'ai dû passer au moins une heure en tringlant dans une position peu agréable, plusieurs coudes pas faciles à passer et utilisation d'environ 8m à 9m (il ne faut pas chercher à tourner le furet il faut faire des petits allers et retours) Une inquiétude car à la fin j'ai cru que je ne pourrais pas ramener le furet mais en tringlant avec des petits allers et retours j'ai finalement réussi à le ramener. L'écoulement est maintenant impeccable depuis plusieurs mois. Penser à limer et plier ver l'intérieur l'aspérité du bout pour ne pas avoir une pointe qui abime ou perfore le tuyau.

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