An amazing trick! Our 1-minute video shows you how to easily retrieve anything that went down the drain…without a pipe wrench or a plumber.
Something Down The Drain?
Retrieve it Without a Wrench.
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new excuse to buy a Shop-Vac
thanks, you saved me lots of money with that shop vac idea. Brilliant!!
If you have a newsletter with all your tips I would like to join .
Thank you Trudy
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good advice thanks! but i have a question. what if your 4yr old son fills the drain with toilet paper, runs water, and puts in more toilet paper. i dont think a shop vac would work…any ideas?
Spank his little butt so he won’
t do it again!
This video was very useful info on the drain, interesting one on deer hunting and cooking and the travel map..
Thanks I’m going subscribe to your site…..
the shop-vac worked perfectly. it took a couple of trys, but low & behold there was my wife’s earring clip. thank you for saving the time that it would have taken to take the pipes apart. my wife said there has to be a better way, of course being the know it all handyman husband i said NO there is not. so privately i found your web site by doing a google. not sure if i am going to take all the credit
My cousin sent me your clip on Down the Drain. How fortunate, I just committed the bad deed. IT WORKS.
Please send me your web site info so I may subscribe.
Thanks,
Terry
this tip was INGENIOUS!!!! I was dreading how to get an earring out that I dropped and this worked so well!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I had my doubts on this one… and I am so glad to be proven wrong. This was a small pearl earring not a bottle cap (which would float ?). and I had only a house vaccum cleaner. Thank you Michael, truly ingenious.
Removed the stopper assembly, sealed the stopper rod opening with a stretched out rubber glove, panty hose over the vaccum and the earring was out in 10 seconds flat.
Alot of plumbers use that method to save time and avoid dismantling non-leaking drain pipes.
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