zenataomm Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 These gadgets work well and can be found in Screwfix and B&Q or Tool Station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter X Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Pour a cupfull of hof garlic butter down the plug ole should make make this a more palatable experience. The only time I ate snails was in a French restaurant in Portsmouth in 1983, where they came with garlic butter. All I could taste was the garlic butter, so I have no idea for comparison what snails on their own would have tasted like. Maybe that's just as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHS Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Mr or Mrs Muscle? Cillit or Selleck Bang? Just buy another boat. Any boat with a blocked sink waste has had it. I'll give you a tenner for it. MtB Webuyanyboat.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupertbear Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 This will only work if the snail up the pipe is a boy. I don't want to muddy the waters too much but snails are hermaphrodites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftycarper Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Mr or Mrs Muscle? Cillit or Selleck Bang? Webuyanyboat.com . If you use these extreme cleaning products you may as well just change the pipe with the snail in now as the seals in your waste usually start leaking after a drop of Mr muscle anyway , be warned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaker Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 My favourite tool for clearing a blockage (in house or boat) is a 'sink plunger', a large flexible cup on a stick, available from every old-fashioned hardware store (maybe plumber's merchants and DIY stores too). Fill the sink/basin with three inches of water (insert the plug if necessary), hot water is better, cover the (unplugged) outlet with the plunger and pump vigouressly, repeat as necessary, maybe as a maintenance task. Yes, this is what we use on the boat, very effective. Be careful if using on a sink with an overflow, you need to block it with a cloth to avoid blow-back. Another use for these, is you can stick one on your forehead and play at Daleks. Be careful with bleach unless you know what all of the parts are made of, it can corrode plastic or rubber seals and components. The fish aren't too fussed with it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickF Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 I don't want to muddy the waters too much but snails are hermaphrodites. I did wonder that, but these days we are not allowed to discriminate so whatever they are that's fine with me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnetman Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Absolutely Just as long as they don't do it in my sink waste pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 I don't want to muddy the waters too much but snails are hermaphrodites. Which is no doubt particularly helpful in muddy water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J R Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 All very well disolving the snail, but what about its shell? Seriosly though, try soda crystals and hot water. Will shift grease, soap etc very effectivly. (Untried on small squishy animals, but worth a go). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Could try a wet and dry vac on blow? +1 Works for me. If the overflow pipe is plumbed in, remember to block this first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter X Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Yes, this is what we use on the boat, very effective. Be careful if using on a sink with an overflow, you need to block it with a cloth to avoid blow-back. Another use for these, is you can stick one on your forehead and play at Daleks. The fish aren't too fussed with it either. As the plunger end should be outwards, glue will not suffice, you'd need a better way to hold the handle in place. Anyway, the proper Dalek dress code is that the plunger must not be worn on the head, the eyestalk goes there. More properly known as the Dalek Manipulator Arm, it should be held in the right hand... http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/dalek/weapons/ Note that among its several uses listed, there is no mention of unblocking sinks. When the Daleks first appeared, the BBC really did use a sink plunger because the show had a very low budget. In the school playground on the Monday, we just made do without props. I'm sure I remember several of us circling around with elbows at our side but arms extended going "Exterminate!", acutely aware that we lacked anything for the eyestalk. Anyone wishing to make their own will find all they could want to know about the changing Dalek fashions here: http://www.projectdalek.co.uk/files/autopsy/eye.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twbm Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 It's sometimes possible to use a cupped hand the same as a plunger once the sink has water in it .. block the overflow with a flannel or something first. It may take two or three goes but I use this technique with depressing regularity in hotel rooms. Start with a cupped hand, and then flatten it as fast as you can, go back to cupped and repeat. Each time you do that the water between your hand and the obstruction is pushed against the obstruction and may just shift it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Star Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Firstly, have a good close look at the outlet in the sink itself. Does there seem to be hair caught around the outlet? If so, start pulling at it it, and keep pulling it out. You may well find that you are pulling thicker and thicker lumps of hair out as you go along, until you have a pony-tail of hair sat on top of the sink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loafer Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Just buy another boat. Any boat with a blocked sink waste has had it. I'll give you a tenner for it. MtB Not if the ashtrays are full! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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