- Hi, I'm Parris and I'm back with a quick follow-up today
of a product I reviewed about two months ago
called The Drain Strain.
I can't show it to you here
because it's actually in the drain of the kid's bathroom.
The idea is that it has a little basket
connected to the replacement stopper they give you
and it catches the hair and what-not
that falls down in the sink
and the reason I'm doing the review today
is that the sink has clogged up.
Took about two months since I installed The Drain Strain.
Now, it doesn't prevent clogs
so it's normal that it would clog up again
since the kids brush their hair over the sink there
but what it does
is it makes it easy to clean the clog out.
Instead of having to go down underneath the sink
and undo the trap and the water comes out,
and all the gunk there,
it's supposed to be caught in this little basket
that is in the replacement stopper piece
they give you for your sink
and that's supposed to be as easy
as twisting the thing and pulling it out
and then you can clean it out and put it back in.
You're good for another month or two.
So I'm going to pull that out now and see what's in there,
and I'll also remove the trap underneath the sink
to check it and make sure
that it isn't accumulating more gunk
and resulting in part of the problem with the backup.
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The Drain Strain goes for about 15 to 25 dollars
depending on if you want to buy just one
or if you want to buy two for two different sinks
and how many replacement baskets you want.
You can just wash out the baskets
but if you don't want to touch the stuff that's in there,
you can just dispose of them and put a brand new basket on.
If you'd like to find out more about The Drain Strain,
there's a link right down below the video.
Oksana was doing some face painting yesterday,
so there's more than the usual amount of weird stuff
here in the sink.
Let me turn on the water and show you
(water running)
that it is indeed plugged up now.
Okay, so, let's see if I remember how to take this off.
It's simply a twist and a pull, I think.
Okay, well that seems to have taken care of the plug.
It's all in this basket now.
Hmm, let me see about cleaning this out
and showing you what the trap
underneath the sink looks like.
As I remember, there's a button here and here
and I'm just supposed to squeeze those
and the basket should pop off, I think.
There we go.
So there's my stuff to clean out.
That only took about 10, 15 seconds to clean out.
The nasty stuff just pulled out.
It still as the shape of the basket as you can see.
I'll now reattach the basket
and put it back into the drain.
That took about another 10 seconds.
(water running)
There we go, and as promised,
here is the trap from under the sink.
I hate having to go down and take this out.
It's got a little bit of nasty stuff in there
but it did when I put it back on last time.
I didn't actually clean it out completely.
Nothing else has accumulated in it,
certainly nothing that's going to cause the sink to plug
and back up.
So, The Drain Strain strained out all the crud.
It was very easy to take it,
throw it into the trash,
put the now clean basket back into the device,
back into the drain
and I'm ready to go for probably another month and a half
to two months.
That's how long it took them, this time around,
to plug up the sink.
Now I have to go reinstall the trap under that sink
and make sure it's not leaking
but maybe for the last time,
at least for a long while,
because as long as I'm using The Drain Strain,
I'm hoping I won't have to climb down there
on my knees and undo that anymore.
If the idea of The Drain Strain intrigues you,
check it out at the link down below this video,
also, just in case you hadn't noticed,
our previous video was me
installing this decal decoration set
on our wall, of the world.
It turned out very nice
and we're gonna use it for a while
as a backdrop to our videos.
This is courtesy of The Decal Guru
and we'll put a link to their website
down below this video as well.
It's always nice when things work
the way they're supposed to.
You can keep checking back for our future videos
where you'll see things whether they work
or whether they really don't work for us
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See you on the next review.
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