Toilets and Sinks Backing Up? Try this Hack to Clear them Out!

If your toilets and other drains back up regularly, and the elbow grease you’re exerting with the plunger and the money you’re spending on Drano isn’t working, the problem likely isn’t with the fixture, but the drain lines under and outside your home.  Roots from trees and plants can grow into them, seeking moisture. They thrive in that environment, so they grow out of control and clog the pipe. No amount of plunging will fix that problem, but home improvement guru and star of Today’s Homeowner, Danny Lipford, says he has a simple solution that will do the trick.

The solution to your clogged drain line problem is something you can find at your local home improvement store, like Home Depot: Green Gobbler Foaming Root Killer.  This product targets those roots with a formula that dehydrates them within the pipes until they become brittle and dissolve away, leaving you with completely cleared pipes. It’s as easy as flushing a pound of the formula from a first-floor toilet. That means you don’t have to pay a plumber big bucks to run an auger through the drain lines to cut the roots. Plus, with its foaming action, this root killer reaches places an auger might not, and it helps prevent regrowth to eliminate the problem for good.

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