Giving your clogged drains a professional cleaning is nothing short of a confession. If you’re the only adult who uses the bathroom, it reveals all about your careless drainage habits. Your plumber might be able to identify the items clogging your drains, and you’d be surprised to recall all the things you’ve dumped in your toilet bowls.
The fatberg doesn’t form overnight; it’s a continuous process of disposing of the WRONG things down your drain.
Find a hiding spot and cover your face because we’ll reveal all the naughty secrets in your toilet drains.
Condoms
We know that sometimes you don’t have the luxury of time to care about safe ways of disposing of condoms. This usually happens when you’re drunk, or the baby wakes up before you get a quickie, or you sleep with a stranger from the bar who doesn’t care (or know) about your toilet hygiene.
Regardless of the reason, disposing of condoms in the toilet is unsafe for the drains. The material doesn’t disintegrate in the water and may add to the buildup, eventually choking the pipe. However, if you must, it’s better to use a trackless toilet flush sheet before pulling the plug on the drain because it drains better.
Tampons
Keep a bin inside your bathrooms when you’re on your period. Disposing of used tampons in the toilet drain will accumulate into the fatberg that will ultimately reveal itself! You may not be proud of being careless and forgetful, but it’s embarrassing when a plumber points it out. Change before your secrets are out.
Floss
You should take your dentist’s advice seriously and floss multiple times daily. But dumping used floss in the toilet is not a great habit. It may look harmless because it’s a fine string, but it’s made of synthetic material that doesn’t decompose in the drains. Dropping it in the loo and not the bin can cause plumbing troubles in the future.
Hair
This is a close second to floss because it’s finer than that and tends to decompose eventually. However, the decomposition process is much slower than it is in the case of soft tissues. Since hair is made of keratin—a protein—it disintegrates by proteolysis, which depends on several environmental factors. Plus, when you dump fallen hair, you usually clump it together in a big bunch that’s harder to flush. The garbage is the right place for dumping hair, not the toilet.
But even if you haven’t been disposing of these things in the toilet, it can still cause drainage issues. Some forms of feces are harder to flush through, and more so if the drainpipes are already clogged.
Always Use Trackless Toilet Flush Sheets
If you’re a homeowner, you need this in your toilet. Trackless flush sheets are water-soluble and make draining feces and other waste easier. You don’t need to flush multiple times to ensure the waste has flushed or use the toilet brush whenever you see unsightly tracks on the bowl. Simply using one sheet before use will get the job done. And they’re eco-friendly, too!
Read here to find out more about how it breaks down flushed paper and waste without store-bought washroom cleaners.
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