Here are important steps to unblock your drain.

1. How to Unblock a drain?

2. Introduction • A blocked drain outside the house is enough to send alarm bells ringing. • To be fair, the fear is understandable because when an outside drain is blocked, there is no telling what could happen. After all, the outdoor drain serves a vital purpose as it is responsible for transporting all wastewater and sewerage from your house to the main sewer line. • So, when that gets blocked, all hell can break loose. • But don’t press the panic button just yet, or frantically call up your friend asking, ‘how to unblock a drain pipe’ or even contact an outside drain unblockerservice. There is plenty you can do to clear blocked drains, DIY among them.

3. My outside drain is blocked!! • Before we learn more about how to fix a blocked drain, there are a few things you’ll need for the purpose. These include, • Rubber gloves – The drain is not the most hygienic of places, a blocked drain even worse so. It’s as dirty as it’s smelly, which is why you need a good pair of protective rubber gloves to keep your hands safe. • Rope – When trying to unblock a drain pipe, a rope can be useful to remove the drain’s cover by force. • Waste bags – Plastic carrier or waste bags are convenient to store the debris that you take out from the drain after unblocking it.

4. Cont.. • Drain rod – The most important piece of the how to clear a blocked drain puzzle, a drain rod is very useful to dislodge a blockage and easily available with local hardware stores. And while you are at it, buy more than one as they might prove useful. • Bleach – Once you do the hard part of clearing the blocked drains using drain rods, it is time to clean the drains as much as possible. Bleach is a brilliant outdoor drain cleaner and can really freshen up your outside drain. • Caustic soda – There’s no way of knowing if your blocked outside drain will need caustic soda but keep it nearby anyway. If you don’t have caustic soda, any chemical drain unblocker will do. • Garden hose – A garden hose is useful in any cleaning exercise, more so when it is your outside drain that we are talking about.

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