A few weeks ago our shower started to occasionally drain slowly. As it got worse, I thought I’d have to get out the snake or call a plumber. Then the other day I thought ‘why not just try the plunger?’
30 seconds of plunging, and I suddenly felt the blockage break loose, and the 8cm of standing water drained immediately.
Gotta love simple fixes that work.
Years back we had a lot of snow and ice accumulate on our road in the metro Vancouver area. Plows had banked the snow up. Then we had lots of rain and melt. But the sewer was frozen over. There was 6 inches of standing water on our street. I grabbed a shovel and chipped through the ice to flip a chunk off the sewer grate. The sound of all that water flooding into an empty sewer was like being at niagra falls. Thundering power. So satisfying.