Not that long back I bought a drain snake to clear the clogs from my kitchen sink. That little adventure ended up requiring me to replace the U pipe below my sink, but was on the whole successful.
The trick is knowing that the turning mechanism is not a way to feed the snake, instead it just makes the head on the end turn. Clockwise turning is good for drilling into clogs, counterclockwise for maneuvering through pipes. I'd have never figured this out if my friend Omar didn't explain it (the instructions on the thing were most unhelpful).
Anyways, since then the only plumbing problems I've had are the occasional leak. My approach has been to put a bucket under the leaky pipes and wait until the leak stops. Its taken a couple weeks, but this approach, bizarrely, has worked twice. I'd figured I'd eventually have to call a plumber but I've managed to dodge that expense. I'm not sure how the leaks just stopped, but I'm certainly not complaining.
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