If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair?

profdc9 , 5 hours ago

I made myself a 3-D printed drain cover

github.com/profdc9/…/Sink-Drain

And it traps the hair and I don’t have problems with clogging. It’s a parametric part so it can be adjusted for most drain sizes.

Smeagol666 , 1 hour ago

At my apartments they have it in the lease that we are not allowed to use Drano, becase our pipes are pvc. I use a coathanger that I’ve put a little hook on with pliers. My gf has long hair, and sheds like a goddam collie.

naevaTheRat , 1 hour ago

Lots of people are wrong. The stuff in Nair attacks sulfur bridges in keratine. This makes it physically fragile so you can scrape it off.

It doesn’t dissolve the keratin though.

In theory you could break it into lots of small pieces by say pointing a water jet down the drain (or plunging or whatever) after treatment. Whether this is enough to loosen it will have a lot to do with other stuff in the drain/geometry/penetration depth. It may just make a gel that plugs the drain.