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Ice Auger Review 3yrs

Ice Auger Review 3 Yr

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Mastering the Plumber's Snake: A Comprehensive Guide to Clearing Clogs

When it comes to household plumbing issues, clogged drains are among the most common and frustrating problems. While minor blockages can sometimes be resolved with a plunger or a liquid drain cleaner, more stubborn clogs often require a more robust tool: the plumber’s snake. Also known as a drain auger, the plumber's snake is an essential tool for any DIY enthusiast looking to tackle tough clogs without calling in a professional. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about using a plumber’s snake effectively and safely.

What is a Plumber’s Snake?

A plumber's snake is a long, flexible, metal cable with a corkscrew-like tip that is manually or electrically fed into a drain to break up and clear blockages. Unlike plungers, which use pressure to dislodge clogs, a plumber’s snake physically breaks up or grabs the material causing the obstruction.

Types of Plumber’s Snakes

Before we dive into how to use one, it’s important to understand the different types of plumber’s snakes available:

Hand Auger: This is a manual tool ideal for small to medium clogs in sinks, bathtubs, and showers. It consists of a flexible cable wound inside a drum, with a handle that you crank to extend the cable into the drain.

Toilet Auger: Specifically designed for toilets, this auger has a shorter, more rigid cable and a protective rubber coating to prevent damage to the porcelain.

Drum Auger: Available in manual and electric versions, drum augers are suitable for a wide range of drains and are capable of reaching deeper clogs.

Power Auger: These are electric or battery-operated tools used for severe clogs in large pipes, such as those found in main sewer lines. They can extend much farther than manual augers.

When to Use a Plumber’s Snake

You should consider using a plumber’s snake when:

Plungers and liquid drain cleaners fail to clear the clog.

You’re dealing with a slow-draining sink, tub, or toilet.

There’s a recurring clog that keeps coming back.

You suspect the clog is deeper within the plumbing system.

How to Use a Plumber’s Snake: Step-by-Step Guide

1. Prepare the Area

Before you start, make sure the area around the drain is clear. Wear rubber gloves to protect your hands and have a bucket and some towels handy to catch any water or debris that might come out of the drain.

2. Insert the Snake

For sinks and tubs: Remove the drain cover or stopper.

For toilets: Insert the toilet auger directly into the bowl.

3. Extend the Cable

Feed the snake into the drain until you feel resistance, which indicates you’ve reached the clog. If you're using a manual auger, turn the handle clockwise to extend the cable. For power augers, follow the manufacturer's instructions for extending the cable.

4. Break Up the Clog

Once the snake reaches the clog, continue to turn the handle or operate the power auger. This action will either break up the clog or entangle it so you can pull it out. You might need to push and pull the snake to get through particularly stubborn blockages.

5. Retrieve the Snake

Carefully retract the snake by reversing the direction of the handle or power auger. Pull out the cable slowly, as it may bring up debris and water. Have your bucket ready to catch any mess.

6. Test the Drain

Run water through the drain to ensure the clog is cleared. If the water still drains slowly, you may need to repeat the process. For toilets, flush to see if the blockage is gone.

7. Clean Up

Once the clog is cleared, clean your plumber’s snake thoroughly to prevent rust and prepare it for future use. Dispose of any debris properly and sanitize the area around the drain.

Tips for Using a Plumber’s Snake

Go Slow: Being too forceful can damage your pipes, especially if they are old or fragile.

Use Proper Tools: Always use the appropriate type of auger for the job to avoid damaging your plumbing fixtures.

Safety First: Always wear gloves and protective eyewear. If using an electric auger, be mindful of electrical safety, especially around water.

Regular Maintenance: Regularly cleaning your drains can help prevent clogs from forming in the first place.

When to Call a Professional

While a plumber’s snake can handle many clogs, some situations call for professional intervention:

Persistent Clogs: If the clog keeps coming back despite your efforts, there may be a deeper issue.

Complex Plumbing Systems: Homes with intricate plumbing systems might require advanced tools and expertise.

Sewer Line Issues: Problems with the main sewer line often require specialized equipment and professional know-how.

Using a plumber’s snake is a practical and cost-effective way to handle common clogs in your home. With a bit of practice and patience, you can master this tool and keep your drains flowing smoothly. Remember, while DIY solutions can be effective, don’t hesitate to call a professional when faced with persistent or severe plumbing issues.

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Reconstrained Design (the book)

We have a new book, a catalogue of sorts, covering certain aspects of our work as the Reconstrained Design Group* over the past couple of years. It’s a handsome object full of nice words and images - some of which you may have seen first on this blog. There is also new material: for example, it features essays on Reconstrained Design by Lucy Suchman and Clive Dilnot. Please send us a message if you’re interested in receiving a copy.

Here is a short piece from the book, ‘DIY Reconstrained’, written by ourselves and Enrique Encinas:

The three words that form the DIY acronym send a clear and empowering message: anyone can do it. You can do it. But do what? What needs to be done? For some, DIY resides in a shed at the back of the garden—the Reader’s Digest manual from the 1970s that tells you how to fix everything from a drainpipe to a typewriter. For others DIY suggests punk rock, a form of expression that requires only minimum skill to achieve satisfying results, and that builds around it an active community, rejecting the passivity of corporate consumerism.

DIY is rational resistance to an irrational consumer culture. Paul Mazur of Lehman Brothers declared in 1927: ‘We must shift America from a needs, to a desires culture.’ Public relations, advertising agencies, and designers answered Mazur’s call with methods appealing not to the rationality of citizens but to the irrational and subconscious drives of consumers. The marketplace boomed as selling bypassed the intellect to interact directly with the emotions. This near complete alteration of perspective puts DIY in a fragile position—impoverished by its more complex appeal, its objects struggle to compete with the hi-gloss culture of brands and fashion. For many consumers, the latest iteration of consumer electronic products exhibit a near sacred aura.

In Mythologies (1957) Roland Barthes describes this elevation of object status through the example of the Citroën DS, the ‘Goddess’—‘a superlative object’. He comments on the seamless perfection of the vehicle, likening it to the ‘unbroken metal’ of science-fiction spaceships and even to the smooth and seamless robes worn by Christ. Seams, he argues, reveal the hand of the (human) maker—methods of assembly and therefore dis-assembly (or fixing). In a sinister shift, this godlike approach to artefacts has become the celebrated norm of product design—think of Apple—where ‘perfection’ means not letting any grubby hands inside the pristine carapace of the technological device, not meddling with divine creation. How can DIY compete with such perfection?

The deskilling of a generation of young people presents another problem for DIY, as schools focus too exclusively on new ways of making such as 3D printing and laser cutting. This has severely limited the scope of what can be made and by whom.

It was in the early 20th century that DIY, the ungenteel inheritor of the Arts and Crafts movement, got its name. Then and now, in the Maker Movement, DIY is viewed as a creative and/or recreational and/or money-saving activity. It is helpful, useful, and fun. It is as straightforward a practice as the end it wants to accomplish. Through a set of accessible premises, ‘shed’-style DIY launches the rational individual into a journey of self discovery and learning—a journey that normally ends when function is met and hence need is no more. As a good citizen, one finds in DIY the sensible alternative to a trip to the store. As a consumer embedded in a culture of desire, however, the workshop presents a real challenge—who has the time, access, or requisite knowledge? As with the Arts and Crafts movement, the Maker Movement risks simply being a mouthpiece for the middle classes, an outlet for those with the disposable time and income to temporarily reject the mainstream attitude towards objects and our interactions with them. So what can be done?

Royal detested this orthodoxy of the intelligent. Visiting his neighbours’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee pot, by the well-modulated color schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture, and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.

- J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

Consumers have been programmed for sleek, seamless products far too long to accept the standard (non-designed) DIY aesthetic overnight. The desire for award-winning coffee pots (and phones, juicers, hair dryers, etc.) is strong, and for the time being Ballard is most likely right—there is no possibility of escape. This leaves two options: one easy, one very difficult.

The hard route: Adapt consumer desires to a maker aesthetic. Reprogramme people to be less obsessed with brands, or to see value in what is rough, cheap, or practical.

The various gravity batteries described in the Newton Machine project exemplify the approach with their focus on easy making over high-level production, found components over highly-refined, open-source over heavily patented and local materials over globally sourced. This is the first challenge we set in our manifesto—to reverse Mazur’s statement and return to a needs-based culture. But this is a slow-burning, long-term strategy.

The easier route: Adapt the DIY aesthetic to what people want. Introduce a better sense of design that allows maker products to compete with mainstream exemplars of good design such as Apple and Dyson. What would a DIY artefact like if it had the touch of Charles and Ray Eames? Or Dieter Rams? Or Enzo Mari? There aren’t many designed maker objects to be found. The OpenStructures WaterBoiler is one example of how such things could look. Originally designed by Jesse Howard and Thomas Lommée, it was adapted by Unfold, who replaced the PET bottles with a cut-through bottle (see Tord Boontje’s Transglass project for the potential of cut recycled glass) and used a combination of 3D-printed ceramic, off-the-shelf plumbing material and simple folded steel. If more objects like these were produced by the Maker Movement, there might be a chance of shifting consumer habits.

To complement our sometimes utilitarian approach, we are developing more designerly examples of Reconstrained Design addressing the complex notions of desire that drive conspicuous consumption. The Gravity Lamp and Gravity Turntable, for example, aim to provide a more direct challenge to contemporary design, by removing constraints imposed by its relationship to the market. The aim is not only to address stylistic issues but also the problem of making—that the route to ownership should not be constrained by a lack of skills or access to tools. The solution is to build a network of experts, professionals, and craftspeople, essentially decentralising DIY by engaging with the local community, its expertise and its resources. A DIY manual for a product could, for example, be a wiki that shows the constructive steps but also points the way to local cabinet makers or metal shops that will help to build sophisticated elements of a project. This approach would also support the survival of craft knowledge in local communities.

* The Reconstrained Design Group is James Auger, Julian Hanna, Laura Watts, Enrique Encinas, Mohammed Ali, and Parakram Pyakurel

Images: 

Citroën DS 19; Enzo Mari by Adriano Alecchi (Mondadori Publishers) - both via Wikimedia Commons.

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Best Cordless Drill Under $100 In August 2017.

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