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hello Sue, here is a country sink clearing routine which works : eggshells!! don't bin them, crush them and pound them down the plughole the more the merrier and carry on as usual. They will scoop up anything lurking and sweep it away. If you have an open drain outside, in the morning you will think you have a dead rat lying there. It worked for us, always, and costs nothing!


And hope you are not eating omelettes all week ha ha


Also, when we have boiled the kettle for tea whatever and there is water remaining we tip it down the sink plughole.


When you use lemons, cut up whats left and boil it up in a pan of water for instant air freshener, especially after cooking fish, then tip the water down the plughole. Happy gurgles !

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Someone told me used coffee grounds work (not

> tea).


also gritty - I will try this, I usually scoop them into the little green bag. All these natural cleaners we can use without resorting to chemicals.


I came back to say, we always use a sink strainer in the plughole, it's amazing how much debris is collected, and in the shower also, although we had to modify the trap a little. Prevention is better than cure and all that.

aerie Wrote:

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> hello Sue, here is a country sink clearing routine

> which works : eggshells!! don't bin them, crush

> them and pound them down the plughole the more the

> merrier and carry on as usual. They will scoop up

> anything lurking and sweep it away. If you have an

> open drain outside, in the morning you will think

> you have a dead rat lying there. It worked for us,

> always, and costs nothing!

>


Blimey.


I put my eggshells in the compost.


Has anybody else tried this? I'd be worried they'd block the pipes and I'd end up with a worse problem than I started with :(

You gotta have faith.


bash into small pieces : the rough edges scoop up anything nasty, and shells absorb smells.


It is the drain equivalent of muesli.


If you are nervous Sue, start small, with one shell, and build up? (to raiding your compost)

By the end of next week you will have a post up here, 'eggshells wanted'

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