IF you’ve ever struggled to clear a blocked drain, you’ll know how expensive it can be.
And while there are a multitude of products on the market that claim to be able to help aid the situation, there’s actually a hack plumbers swear by that’s a whole lot easier, and tonnes cheaper.
Plumber Chris Loftus shared the trick in a video on his TikTok page, as he showed how you can do it yourself with just some cable ties and a pair of small scissors.
Holding up one of the black plastic cable ties, he used the scissors to cut diagonally almost all the way across.
He didn’t cut through the cable tie, but then did more cuts all the way up – creating a jagged effect.
Chris was then able to put the cable tie down the plughole, with the jagged edge “catching” the hair and pulling it out.
In fact, it managed to successfully dislodge a huge mass of hair and gunk that had been blocking up the plughole.
“Bath blocked? No problem!” he captioned the video.
And the comments section was almost immediately filled with impressed people praising Chris for sharing the hack.
“Genius!” one wrote.
“Brilliant hack,” another said.
“My daughter has really long hair & yes I’ve pulled out a ‘hair mass’ just like it.”
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“How amazing! I need that idea in my life,” someone else said.
“Such a clever hack,” another wrote.
“I’m a cleaner & the actual excitement of watching the reveal!” someone else laughed.
While another said they were “horrified and impressed in equal measures”.
“I’m watching this after a 2 day fight with my blocked bath!” someone else raged.
“So simple ffs! I feel I really went through it!”
“The way my jaw kept dropping the more you pulled up, great idea,” another said.
“I’m actually impressed by this,” someone else raved.
“I took my bath tub apart a few back and it was some job!”
