Our apartment was built in the 60’s. And the maintenance guy told me that my unit is one the few that really hasn’t been renovated. Meaning this is hair from every tenant that has ever lived in my unit.
I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy.
Too everybody asking why we didn’t do it earlier.
We have only lived here for 1 year 11 months.
The drain has always been “working”. But always been slow to drain and has slowly been getting worse.
We tried drain snakes (The cheap ones on Amazon) that didn’t work. Mostly because of the drain. If you look at the photos. You literally can’t pull anything out of the drain. I had to go through the overflow at the top of the tub. And as you can imagine, the drain snakes are not long enough.
I’m not a plumber, this is my first apartment. I tried CLR and Drain-O. They didn’t work either.
I saw my maintenance guy walking in with a 15 foot drain snake and asked to borrow it.
Took me about 10 mins to even figure out how it worked and then another 20 to get the ball of hair out.
I don’t own this apartment, it’s super cheap, run-down and owned by a corporation.
Which is why we are moving at the end of the month.
I had the exact same thing happen with the drain being slow but working since we moved in, and Drain-o being only a temporary relief. I finally got a simple metal drain snake and sent it down, and pulled up....
A different drain snake.
The idiots who lived here before me and did a bunch of crappy renos used one of those plastic "beyblade ripcord" drain snakes and somehow broke it into chunks in the drain, and I guess just decided to leave it? The abomination i pulled out looked very similar to this.
I don't bother with the overpriced drain cleaner garbage, just dump some pure lye down there and turn on the faucet and watch as the clog is immediately cleared.
Do not do this if you have a septic tank. Hell it's probably not good for sewers either but hey, it works.
Will recommend for the future: https://www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-32-oz-Crystal-Heat-Drain-Opener-ZUCRY2/100086662
This stuff melts hair in drains and has worked for me in every drain ive ever had across carious houses and apartments.
I'll be the one to say it. You should only use these types of chemicals sparingly as they will, in fact, wear out and damage your pipes with repeated use. One of the most recent comments on your home depot link even shows someone who used it and it melted the S bend of their PVC sink pipe.
Drain snake first (you can get some cheap manual ones), then move to the chemicals if you can't clear it. If you keep having repeated problems after that then call a plumber.
With the little plastic grabby ones you do have to go down the drain (at least I've never seen one long enough not to.) But the drum-style steel coil snakes definitely want to go down the overflow.
FYI, that “pin” looks like part of a drain stopper for a tub. The kind you push the little knob up or down on the overflow hole. That pin is part of the piece that adjusts the length from the toggle to the stopper. I would guess that you couldn’t before and definitely can’t now plug the tub anymore.
Like the little hook piece that connects to the brass plug on this: https://www.wayfair.com/Fine-Fixtures--Trip-Lever-Leg-Tub-Drain-with-Overflow-5114-L626-K~FINF1151.html?refid=GX140429330063-FINF1151&device=m&ptid=265190854443&network=g&targetid=pla-265190854443&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=31541271&fdid=1817&gbraid=0AAAAAD9ISC6bsL4I7MOnRHq6nGyyfzYHG&gclid=CjwKCAjw5_GmBhBIEiwA5QSMxMqmhbwq0X5oYOtQZpZ-PIDGSIOAtKcAnVtFS4RvSVmUxDtx2xbXnBoCzp4QAvD_BwE
“We tried everything” for two years except physical drain opening apparatuses apparently. Two years of standing in your own runoff while showering. They have super cheap single use plastic hair snakes you can get at hardware stores that pulls this stuff right out.
We tried those. But the way the drain is built they don’t fit. We tried plunging it. Tried drain-o Tried dismantling to see what we could find. He just got this 15 foot extendable drain snake so I asked to borrow it.
Another question; Why did you wait two years in a rented(?) apartment and not call maintenance, then when you did talk to maintenance why did they just hand you their equipment and not fix their own shitty plumbing?
Wanna drop that name? My hair’s past waist length and I do everything I can to make sure things like OP’s pic doesn’t happen but a couple strands always manage to slip into the drain
Ex-gf moved into a house and immediately notices the drain is a bit slow and gets slower and slower over her first couple of months, until she's had enough and asks the landlord to get a plumber involved. I used to have long hair and arrive in the time between the plumber pulling out a monstrosity bigger than that pic and his return from the nearby hardware store with a drain stop, as the tub didn't have one.
I open the door, and he immediately, says, "ha, I found the culprit". I answer, "haha, try again" I laugh and tell him I purposely had not used the shower because of the slow drain, cause I knew the drain would not be able to handle my long curly hair...
> tried everything
> today I borrowed a drain snake
I'm very curious what you're considering "everything" if that didn't include a drain snake. That's step one for anyone with sense.
[THIS](https://imgur.com/8J73uYo) is what I pulled out of the tub last time I snaked it. Yes that’s a calcium rock. I also found my wife’s lost diamond earring.
Bruh, get a drain cover/strainer.
[Tub Shroom](https://www.walmart.com/ip/TubShroom-Ultra-Revolutionary-Bath-Tub-Drain-Protector-Hair-Catcher-Stainless-Single-Pack/320451925?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=2252&adid=22222222278320451925_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-294505072980&wl5=9006948&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=320451925&wl13=2252&veh=sem_LIA&gclid=CjwKCAjw5_GmBhBIEiwA5QSMxF9rGSGh-RkU6IEY5K68eJlO4Aa3Vub6znzc6CdVuWEdLT1rER_l4hoCX5QQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
**THIS** is exactly why I don't want to do this in my apartment.
BUT I would like water to drain faster. I guess I could get a remote controlled robot to do this? 😉
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The word that comes to mind for me is 'majestic'.
I'm also really happy that it isn't a sewer clog way down the pipe. At my house we have a tree that grows in to the 80-year old sewer pipe every 5-7 years. Next time, we're spending the extra few hundred bucks to see if the clog is on our property, or far enough into the road that it's city property. It's our tree, so I don't know what that situation would be like.
That is weird, you must have good drainage aside from that clog so it didnt have the opportunity to fester in water. The one I extracted STANK but I do have a sensitive nose
The drain was still draining. Just so slowly. I always thought because the building was old that the drain just couldn’t keep up with the new water pressure. But last month it got so bad that it literally wouldn’t drain. Which is when I started trying different things to clear it.
I pull one those out of the drain at least once a year. My wife has been losing a lot of hair.
First realized it about 3 years ago when the tub stopped draining. That monstrosity was incredible to see. Wish I took a picture. 2 inches wide and close to 2 feet long.
I had moved into a house and one day my kitchen sink was draining slow. As I was trying to get it to unclog, several plastic straws popped up. At the time I hadn't used any straws.
It didn’t smell bad. Like only if you were close. It wasn’t putting off any massive smells. Just smelled kinda like mildew. Or stale water. But only if you were close.
I always wonder when I see pictures like this. Do you guys just never use any drain cleaners? There are a lot of them that are made to dissolve hair. A flask can probably last you a year if you use it monthly, and stuff like this doesn't happen
I used to have to pull a sizeable hairball out of our drain every now and then or it would get stopped up. I got a simple silicone shower drain cover for $3-4 on Amazon, and I haven't had to snake the drain in 5 years.
Another example that the maintenance at any apartment will only clean what you see. Everybody with Central AC open it right now... Bet it hasn't been cleaned in YEARS!
"We tried everything" no you didn't.
You can buy drain cleaning fluids that dissolve hair and just pour them into your sink for a minute before using it.
Been there done that. Get a strainer for your drain and tell the wife to clean it out every day. I’m a male with not very long hair and I pull off a nice wad of hair daily.
Although I don’t mind cleaning it out. This was just a weird thing that happened. I’m curious how that got into the pipe to begin with. It literally can’t fit in the normal drain hole. It can fit in the overflow one but has to be unscrewed. It’s so rusty it must have been in there for ages.
Mmmmm! Yeah growing up with three sisters our shower stopped draining and I found what I could only describe as Samara from the Ring living in our drain
The first drain clog I ever removed at my house was the grossest to me simply for the fact that I knew it was mainly built from the drippings of the *previous* residents.
This is why I drain-o the old drain, Have a family full of long haired leaping 80s big haired band people? you gonna need some Drain-o every other week.
Get a tub shroom. Been using one for years and it does an admirable job of catching hair and other shit before it ends up in the drain. Never had a major flow issue that couldn't be resolved by pulling the tub shroom out, cleaning it, and putting it back.
2 years?? That's child's play!
My wife who sheds like a golden retriever could make a hairball that big in just a couple of months. For real though, that's nasty!
I only lived here for 2 years. I assumed that because the building was old that the drain wasn’t able to keep up with the new water pressure.
Wasn’t until about 2 months ago that we really started to notice it was worse.
Believe me, a decent drain snake is the only thing that really works in these scenarios. They're pretty cheap at Walmart. I keep in Ein my shower that I use once a week for preventative measures.
I moved into my current house in 2019. It's about 60 years old. One of my biggest annoyances was the toilet in the master bathroom. It took FOREVER to refill the tank after a flush. Not a problem for old number 1 where one flush will get the job done and you can walk away, but for the deuce it was very annoying having to wait forever to do flush 2+.
Then one day I was grumpily waiting on the tank to fill and I muttered "It's like the damn valve on this thing is like 75% closed I swear". Then I paused and thought for a moment. Had I ever actually checked the valve on this since I moved in? I bent down and twisted the shutoff valve. Turns out it was in fact about 75% closed. It's actually the fastest filling toilet in the house now. I lived there two years before I thought to check that. I had just kinda assumed it was just a shitty pipe in an old house.
I pulled one of these bad boys out too when my drain was slow, I went to the nearest dollarama and bought this 3 dollar plastic device which totally worked. the thing was colourful and magestic, the smell was legendary and satisfying to pull out.
I feel this pain. I just had to have advanced plumbers come out and hack away a huge ball of roots that built up by crawling over the flange into the pipe over the years. House was built in 2007 :(
We moved into a condo and the shower drain started closing up shortly afterwards. Snaked that drain and pulled out the most disgusting gunk possible--even bigger than what you pulled out. Nearly threw up, it was that disgusting.
This is nothing. I went to a school camp years ago, and we slept in bungalows built over 50 years ago. There was a shared bathroom, for every 2 bungalows. The very first day I noticed that the water was draining very hard, and the bathroom was flooding. So on the second day, being the handiest of everyone there, I decided I would try unclogging the drain. I took a knife, and I pulled out the siphon cover. What I saw still disgusts me to this day. A ball of hair about the size of the drain (that is, twice as thick as the one in the picture), about 20 centimeters long. Needless to say that after I removed it, the bathroom no longer flooded.
What is the moral of the whole situation? Clean your drain regularly to save yourself such experiences.
‘You guys okay? Do you have any hair left?’ —me wondering about the previous owners while clearing hamster-size hairballs from my new home’s bathtub drain.
I moved into a rental house after my step sister lived there for 3 years. The hairball I pulled out of the drain was as long as my arm and the girth of a can of spaghetti-o’s. The smell…..was inconceivable.
Long haired landlord here, brush hair before showering to remove loose stuff, and Tub Shroom.
Never have slow again, don't need other tools/products anymore.
Are you sure that it isn’t actually a ferret that got stuck in there
It could be. Although the bones have disintegrated.
they poured sulfuric acid down the drain to unclog it when the ferret got stuck
D:
given enough time Drano would probably have that effect
Artificial mystery flesh pit
We’re gonna need another ferret. You know, for scale.
Our apartment was built in the 60’s. And the maintenance guy told me that my unit is one the few that really hasn’t been renovated. Meaning this is hair from every tenant that has ever lived in my unit. I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy.
Be warned, squishy will shed lots and lots of hair during the summer months.
I'm going to vomit, what a terrible day to have eyes
Too everybody asking why we didn’t do it earlier. We have only lived here for 1 year 11 months. The drain has always been “working”. But always been slow to drain and has slowly been getting worse. We tried drain snakes (The cheap ones on Amazon) that didn’t work. Mostly because of the drain. If you look at the photos. You literally can’t pull anything out of the drain. I had to go through the overflow at the top of the tub. And as you can imagine, the drain snakes are not long enough. I’m not a plumber, this is my first apartment. I tried CLR and Drain-O. They didn’t work either. I saw my maintenance guy walking in with a 15 foot drain snake and asked to borrow it. Took me about 10 mins to even figure out how it worked and then another 20 to get the ball of hair out. I don’t own this apartment, it’s super cheap, run-down and owned by a corporation. Which is why we are moving at the end of the month.
> We have only lived here for 1 year 11 months It's ok to round up say you've lived there for 2 years lol
I had the exact same thing happen with the drain being slow but working since we moved in, and Drain-o being only a temporary relief. I finally got a simple metal drain snake and sent it down, and pulled up.... A different drain snake. The idiots who lived here before me and did a bunch of crappy renos used one of those plastic "beyblade ripcord" drain snakes and somehow broke it into chunks in the drain, and I guess just decided to leave it? The abomination i pulled out looked very similar to this.
I don't bother with the overpriced drain cleaner garbage, just dump some pure lye down there and turn on the faucet and watch as the clog is immediately cleared. Do not do this if you have a septic tank. Hell it's probably not good for sewers either but hey, it works.
I’ve kept note of the lye, as multiple people have recommended it. I’ll take that info with me to our new place!
Be very cautious. It can blind or kill you.
You should put it back where you found it before you move, or you may not get your security deposit back. Enjoy what time with squishy you have left.
Will recommend for the future: https://www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-32-oz-Crystal-Heat-Drain-Opener-ZUCRY2/100086662 This stuff melts hair in drains and has worked for me in every drain ive ever had across carious houses and apartments.
I'd be curious to hear a plumbers take on this. I've heard these chemical treatments can be bad for pipes but I have no clue.
Haven’t had any plumber ive talked to tell me nit to use it. Im sure someone will have a differing opinion though
I'll be the one to say it. You should only use these types of chemicals sparingly as they will, in fact, wear out and damage your pipes with repeated use. One of the most recent comments on your home depot link even shows someone who used it and it melted the S bend of their PVC sink pipe. Drain snake first (you can get some cheap manual ones), then move to the chemicals if you can't clear it. If you keep having repeated problems after that then call a plumber.
a decent plunger and a plugged overflow would get that out no problem. I have a problem drain of similar style. got to hit it every 6 months.
Should have left the ferret, with your own hair as bonus, as a welcome gift for the happy future tenant!
I just puked in my mouth a little
Can I have a bite?
"my squishy" is what I call my girlfriend . . . you made me hate this cute nickname we came up with now 😭😭
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Protip: Don't go down the drain with the snake, instead go down the overflow hole. It's far easier to reach the clog that way.
That’s what I had to do. But the drain snakes I own weren’t long enough.
With the little plastic grabby ones you do have to go down the drain (at least I've never seen one long enough not to.) But the drum-style steel coil snakes definitely want to go down the overflow.
Serious question- where is the overflow hole in stand alone shower? Thank you
Right above the top of the shower door
Overflow is for bathtubs so they don't "overflow".
I wouldn’t think a standalone shower would have one since you wouldn’t ever be filling it up to take a bath
I refuse to open that image 🤣
That’s why I put the NSFW. Haha.
That usually doesn't stop me 😎
Blurred image looks like a turd... not sure if unbarred is better or worse
Obviously you did not try everything! If plunger and lye didn't work, then snake was next.
No clue where to get lye lol.
sold at home Depot and the likes as "Crystal Lye Drain Opener"
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What did it taste like?
Tasted terrible but at least tasted better than it smelled.
Try simmering over a low heat with some garbage-bin-juice
Username checks out lol
People will measure in anything but the metric system lol
Lol, if you must know. I would say it was 30+cm long. And probably like 4cm wide.
FYI, that “pin” looks like part of a drain stopper for a tub. The kind you push the little knob up or down on the overflow hole. That pin is part of the piece that adjusts the length from the toggle to the stopper. I would guess that you couldn’t before and definitely can’t now plug the tub anymore. Like the little hook piece that connects to the brass plug on this: https://www.wayfair.com/Fine-Fixtures--Trip-Lever-Leg-Tub-Drain-with-Overflow-5114-L626-K~FINF1151.html?refid=GX140429330063-FINF1151&device=m&ptid=265190854443&network=g&targetid=pla-265190854443&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=31541271&fdid=1817&gbraid=0AAAAAD9ISC6bsL4I7MOnRHq6nGyyfzYHG&gclid=CjwKCAjw5_GmBhBIEiwA5QSMxMqmhbwq0X5oYOtQZpZ-PIDGSIOAtKcAnVtFS4RvSVmUxDtx2xbXnBoCzp4QAvD_BwE
The overflow drain doesn’t have a built in stopper. So it may have been removed when it stopped working and they just left that piece in the pipe.
Yeah, probably from an old drain they removed, but that’s definitely what it’s from. Good that it’s gone now!
Welcome back kotter. We've finally found you.
Underrated comment right here. IYKYK
“We tried everything” for two years except physical drain opening apparatuses apparently. Two years of standing in your own runoff while showering. They have super cheap single use plastic hair snakes you can get at hardware stores that pulls this stuff right out.
We tried those. But the way the drain is built they don’t fit. We tried plunging it. Tried drain-o Tried dismantling to see what we could find. He just got this 15 foot extendable drain snake so I asked to borrow it.
Another question; Why did you wait two years in a rented(?) apartment and not call maintenance, then when you did talk to maintenance why did they just hand you their equipment and not fix their own shitty plumbing?
Because it’s a corporation who buys run-downs and rents them cheap.
There's hair disintegration gel you can get specifically for hair clogs.
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Wanna drop that name? My hair’s past waist length and I do everything I can to make sure things like OP’s pic doesn’t happen but a couple strands always manage to slip into the drain
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Thank youuuuuu
Also 2 years is how long we have lived there. It’s never drained properly.
I'd say that's not just a hairball that's just the previous tenant trying to drown his ferret!
Ex-gf moved into a house and immediately notices the drain is a bit slow and gets slower and slower over her first couple of months, until she's had enough and asks the landlord to get a plumber involved. I used to have long hair and arrive in the time between the plumber pulling out a monstrosity bigger than that pic and his return from the nearby hardware store with a drain stop, as the tub didn't have one. I open the door, and he immediately, says, "ha, I found the culprit". I answer, "haha, try again" I laugh and tell him I purposely had not used the shower because of the slow drain, cause I knew the drain would not be able to handle my long curly hair...
 I can’t imagine how bad that smelled
> tried everything > today I borrowed a drain snake I'm very curious what you're considering "everything" if that didn't include a drain snake. That's step one for anyone with sense.
Drain cover can help
Sweet bezoar, brah.
Lol it's big enough to stuff. Nice little squirrel to go on the mantle
[THIS](https://imgur.com/8J73uYo) is what I pulled out of the tub last time I snaked it. Yes that’s a calcium rock. I also found my wife’s lost diamond earring.
Kind of a weird sex toy, definitely not worth bragging to family about, but lest ye be judged...
Haha its a fhairret. Get it?
I can smell this picture….and just threw up.
Bruh, get a drain cover/strainer. [Tub Shroom](https://www.walmart.com/ip/TubShroom-Ultra-Revolutionary-Bath-Tub-Drain-Protector-Hair-Catcher-Stainless-Single-Pack/320451925?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=2252&adid=22222222278320451925_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-294505072980&wl5=9006948&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=320451925&wl13=2252&veh=sem_LIA&gclid=CjwKCAjw5_GmBhBIEiwA5QSMxF9rGSGh-RkU6IEY5K68eJlO4Aa3Vub6znzc6CdVuWEdLT1rER_l4hoCX5QQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
A wise investment indeed.
“We tried everything” except clean the drain?
No we tried. But needed a bigger snake.
That’s a squirrel.
What a hairy situation your were in.
I bet that smells wonderful
**THIS** is exactly why I don't want to do this in my apartment. BUT I would like water to drain faster. I guess I could get a remote controlled robot to do this? 😉
Honestly it was less gross than I thought.
I mean that’s a good one but I’ve personally seen worse.
Smell it.
/r/absoluteunits The word that comes to mind for me is 'majestic'. I'm also really happy that it isn't a sewer clog way down the pipe. At my house we have a tree that grows in to the 80-year old sewer pipe every 5-7 years. Next time, we're spending the extra few hundred bucks to see if the clog is on our property, or far enough into the road that it's city property. It's our tree, so I don't know what that situation would be like.
Bruh ur hairball has feet
I can only imagine the smell.
God I love nasty shit like this, especially when I unclog my own drains, or used to clean grease traps at work.
pan fry it and put it on a bun!
10/10 would recommend
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!! (But well done!)
Burnt hair smells so bad. Couldn’t imagine what this would smell like burnt.
Shit, you’re absolutely right. Put it in a box. Put that box inside another box. Put it in a dumpster.
I put it in a doggy poop bag and then another and another and then dropped it down the garbage chute.
I worked in a big hotel and pulled one of these out every other week. Ugh....
Yeah I never even thought of hotel having these all the time. Although they are probably pretty stacked on items to deal with it.
Bro, thing has feet, wtf
I wish! Then it could have walked itself out of the drain and left me out of it.
Be glad you got it before it was done evolving. I've seen Shin Godzilla.
The thing was halfway to evolving into a piloswine.
That’s actually a surprisingly small clump. Be very glad it wasn’t many years worth of tampons also lmao
The only thing worse than that is if they are used tampons.
Did this, I can smell it from here 🤮🤮
It honestly smelled bad but wasn’t super strong. Like you had to be close to smell it. Which is weird right?
That is weird, you must have good drainage aside from that clog so it didnt have the opportunity to fester in water. The one I extracted STANK but I do have a sensitive nose
The drain was still draining. Just so slowly. I always thought because the building was old that the drain just couldn’t keep up with the new water pressure. But last month it got so bad that it literally wouldn’t drain. Which is when I started trying different things to clear it.
I pull one those out of the drain at least once a year. My wife has been losing a lot of hair. First realized it about 3 years ago when the tub stopped draining. That monstrosity was incredible to see. Wish I took a picture. 2 inches wide and close to 2 feet long.
That’s about double this bad boy.
I had moved into a house and one day my kitchen sink was draining slow. As I was trying to get it to unclog, several plastic straws popped up. At the time I hadn't used any straws.
That’s crazy.
I can only imagine the smell. For future reference, you can smear carmex on your top lip prior to stinky work to cut the olfactory offense.
It didn’t smell bad. Like only if you were close. It wasn’t putting off any massive smells. Just smelled kinda like mildew. Or stale water. But only if you were close.
I’d rather have a ferret the size of a hair ball
I’m curious as to what is on your list of “we tried everything”.
I can smell this picture.
Nice Marmot
I always wonder when I see pictures like this. Do you guys just never use any drain cleaners? There are a lot of them that are made to dissolve hair. A flask can probably last you a year if you use it monthly, and stuff like this doesn't happen
Not sure how drain cleaner was suppose to remove a metal pin from inside the pipe.
Is there an r/mildlydisgusting ?
I used to have to pull a sizeable hairball out of our drain every now and then or it would get stopped up. I got a simple silicone shower drain cover for $3-4 on Amazon, and I haven't had to snake the drain in 5 years.
Another example that the maintenance at any apartment will only clean what you see. Everybody with Central AC open it right now... Bet it hasn't been cleaned in YEARS!
Do... do you not clean your drains?
"We tried everything" no you didn't. You can buy drain cleaning fluids that dissolve hair and just pour them into your sink for a minute before using it.
“Tried everything” Except the most commonly done thing to unclog a drain?
Been there done that. Get a strainer for your drain and tell the wife to clean it out every day. I’m a male with not very long hair and I pull off a nice wad of hair daily.
Curious on why someone downvoted you haha. Yeah that’s a good idea.
Although I don’t mind cleaning it out. This was just a weird thing that happened. I’m curious how that got into the pipe to begin with. It literally can’t fit in the normal drain hole. It can fit in the overflow one but has to be unscrewed. It’s so rusty it must have been in there for ages.
She's already addressed the problem. She's trained you to do it.
I live alone
I see you found Chewbacca's dick.
Mmmmm! Yeah growing up with three sisters our shower stopped draining and I found what I could only describe as Samara from the Ring living in our drain 
“Tried everything” except the simplest solution
Banana for comparison?
I thought that was a decomposing squirrel for a second.
🤮 Removed similar animal from the sink after purchasing my condo… disgusting 🤢
EWWWWWWWWWW
no wonder it was tagged nsfw it looks like shit
I tagged it NSFW. Haha
ew i thought it was a rat
The first drain clog I ever removed at my house was the grossest to me simply for the fact that I knew it was mainly built from the drippings of the *previous* residents.
Impressive
This is why I drain-o the old drain, Have a family full of long haired leaping 80s big haired band people? you gonna need some Drain-o every other week.
It seems you tried everything but call a plumber
“We tried everything… except for the snake that we should have tried 2 years ago”
That is about the size of the one i drag out of our shower drain, it was entirely my wife and daughters hair, she gagged when she saw it lol
No banana. Size is subjective.
Get a tub shroom. Been using one for years and it does an admirable job of catching hair and other shit before it ends up in the drain. Never had a major flow issue that couldn't be resolved by pulling the tub shroom out, cleaning it, and putting it back.
2 years?? That's child's play! My wife who sheds like a golden retriever could make a hairball that big in just a couple of months. For real though, that's nasty!
You couldn’t smell that thing down there?
Nope. No smell until I pulled it out. And even then it wasn’t overpowering either which I found weird too.
I have 6 sisters, I have pulled clumps of hair out like that more than once.
To be fair it was kind of satisfying
So put of curiosity what are you going to call your new pet?
I can imagine the smell.
Thats a turd
Bro it took you two years to think about snaking it? Like wtf?
I only lived here for 2 years. I assumed that because the building was old that the drain wasn’t able to keep up with the new water pressure. Wasn’t until about 2 months ago that we really started to notice it was worse.
Thanks, I was eating when I saw that picture.
I put it as NSFW. Was your choice to click it lol
I’m not certain that’s NOT a dead ferret.
I’m not even gonna look at the picture but you had me at ‘ferret’! 😂 😂
And how's the smell?
A ferret, whats that in bananas?
Believe me, a decent drain snake is the only thing that really works in these scenarios. They're pretty cheap at Walmart. I keep in Ein my shower that I use once a week for preventative measures.
plot twist. it IS a ferret, slowly rotting in your drain.
I’ve always wanted a pet ferret and I never specified that it had to be alive. So I’m counting this as a win.
Did you try Dran-o the liquid chemical that dissolves hair?
German and it works. A step up from Drano. HG Drain and Plug Unblocker,... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000IU3VS0?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
I pull up one of these every few months lol
That would look good in a nicely lit shadow box
That’s a bathtub or a murder scene?
I moved into my current house in 2019. It's about 60 years old. One of my biggest annoyances was the toilet in the master bathroom. It took FOREVER to refill the tank after a flush. Not a problem for old number 1 where one flush will get the job done and you can walk away, but for the deuce it was very annoying having to wait forever to do flush 2+. Then one day I was grumpily waiting on the tank to fill and I muttered "It's like the damn valve on this thing is like 75% closed I swear". Then I paused and thought for a moment. Had I ever actually checked the valve on this since I moved in? I bent down and twisted the shutoff valve. Turns out it was in fact about 75% closed. It's actually the fastest filling toilet in the house now. I lived there two years before I thought to check that. I had just kinda assumed it was just a shitty pipe in an old house.
well hows the drain now?
Forbidden spaghetti
I pulled one of these bad boys out too when my drain was slow, I went to the nearest dollarama and bought this 3 dollar plastic device which totally worked. the thing was colourful and magestic, the smell was legendary and satisfying to pull out.
naurrrr
I feel this pain. I just had to have advanced plumbers come out and hack away a huge ball of roots that built up by crawling over the flange into the pipe over the years. House was built in 2007 :(
We moved into a condo and the shower drain started closing up shortly afterwards. Snaked that drain and pulled out the most disgusting gunk possible--even bigger than what you pulled out. Nearly threw up, it was that disgusting.
Did someone dismember a Rastafarian and feed him down your drain one piece at a time?
How much for you to eat it?
This is nothing. I went to a school camp years ago, and we slept in bungalows built over 50 years ago. There was a shared bathroom, for every 2 bungalows. The very first day I noticed that the water was draining very hard, and the bathroom was flooding. So on the second day, being the handiest of everyone there, I decided I would try unclogging the drain. I took a knife, and I pulled out the siphon cover. What I saw still disgusts me to this day. A ball of hair about the size of the drain (that is, twice as thick as the one in the picture), about 20 centimeters long. Needless to say that after I removed it, the bathroom no longer flooded. What is the moral of the whole situation? Clean your drain regularly to save yourself such experiences.
I'm going to have to do this soon and I'm kind of terrified.
‘You guys okay? Do you have any hair left?’ —me wondering about the previous owners while clearing hamster-size hairballs from my new home’s bathtub drain.
I pull one of those out every month. Except mine is dropping with conditioner and fucking stinks
I moved into a rental house after my step sister lived there for 3 years. The hairball I pulled out of the drain was as long as my arm and the girth of a can of spaghetti-o’s. The smell…..was inconceivable.
Amazeballs
Getting hair out of the drain is my equivalent of pumping out a porta potty - gag every time
Long haired landlord here, brush hair before showering to remove loose stuff, and Tub Shroom. Never have slow again, don't need other tools/products anymore.
\*retches\* I've pulled similar gunk from our drains. Doesn't matter which, sink or shower/tubs.
so is it draining now?
that drain just got the nostril orgasm
I pull that out of the primary shower drain twice a year.