VIDEO: How to Unclog Your Bathroom Sink Manually

Hey, first-time homeowners, if you wanna stop bathroom sink blockage from blocking up your bathroom sink, you need to know how to disconnect the pivot rod from the pop-up stopper. Don’t look so guilty, your parents probably just dumped corrosive chemical drain cleaner into their pipes. But such cleaners can damage your home’s plumbing, causing bigger problems in the long run when you could simply extract the obstruction — likely a repulsive congealed mass of hair, toothpaste, soap scum, mucus and anything else you washed off or spit out. All you’ll need is soft skills and a strong stomach.

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Bathroom sink not draining? Watch the video below to learn how to dismantle your pop-up sink-stopper assembly in order to clear a bathroom sink drain clog manually.

Follow these steps:

1. Find the pop-up stopper assembly

2. Keeping ahold of the stopper with one hand, use your other hand to unscrew the pivot rod

3. Disconnect the pivot rod from the stopper

4. Pull the stopper out

5. Use needle nose pliers or some other slender, grabby instrument to pull out the repugnant mass.

6. Now replace the stopper.

7. Again, holding the stopper with one hand topside, thread the end of the pivot rod back through the eye of the lift rod.

8. Re-tighten the pivot rod and test that your stopper.

9. Run some water in the basin to check your work; it should drain freely

In our helpful DIY video on how to unclog a bathroom sink, we cover the following topics:

• How to unclog a bathroom sink with a pop-up stopper

• How to fix a slow-draining sink

• How to remove the pop-up stopper in a bathroom sink

• DIY bathroom sink unclogging hacks

• How to unclog a sink without chemicals

• How to remove a hair clog in your bathroom sink manually

• Bathroom sink maintenance

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