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hair in shower trap. whose responsibility?

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    #32
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,613 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Gravelly wrote: »
    The brand I mentioned earlier is 97% hydrochloric acid (according to the label).

    What's the brand? 97% HCl sounds very unlikely.


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    #33
    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    What's the brand? 97% HCl sounds very unlikely.

    It's Rothenberger - and you're correct, it isn't 97% HCI it's actually 97% sulphuric acid - my bad.


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    #34
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,613 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Gravelly wrote: »
    It's Rothenberger - and you're correct, it isn't 97% HCI it's actually 97% sulphuric acid - my bad.

    Link?

    I'm curious.


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    #35
    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Link?

    I'm curious.

    Discussing drain cleaner isn't how I envisaged my day off.

    A quick google brings up:

    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/331800370317

    https://www.in-excess.com/products/rothenberger-plumbing-tools-toilet-drain-unblocker-1-litre


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    #36
    spaceHopper
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    Gravelly wrote: »
    It's Rothenberger - and you're correct, it isn't 97% HCI it's actually 97% sulphuric acid - my bad.

    Never use that it will melt the pipes it's only for unlocking toilets and ceramic pipes it is very dangerous to use too. Keep well clear.


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    #37
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,805 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Buy them the drain unblocker and tell them nexttime it blocks simply follow the iinstructions.
    And if they can't do that... evict the useless bassstards!*


    *Perhaps don't do that


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    #38
    professore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭professore


    Gravelly wrote: »
    It's Rothenberger - and you're correct, it isn't 97% HCI it's actually 97% sulphuric acid - my bad.

    Holy sh1t ... you think advising a DIY incompetent tenant to handle battery acid is a good idea? I can see the law firms drooling from here.


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    #39
    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    professore wrote: »
    Holy sh1t ... you think advising a DIY incompetent tenant to handle battery acid is a good idea? I can see the law firms drooling from here.

    It sold in Mr. feckin Price, and every hardware store. It's not exactly uranium. If people can't handle household chemicals they'll probably have succumbed to domestos or toilet duck before reaching adulthood.


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
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    professore wrote: »
    I can see the law firms drooling from here.

    You must be drinking the stuff if you think a LL advising a tenant to use a product could end up in a court case. Honestly some people are so afraid of being sued or non-existent reasons I'm surprised they get up in the morning.


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    #41
    beauf
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    They should put a filter on the drain if they lose a lot of hair.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/shower-hair-trap


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    #42
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Lincoln Many Octogenarian wrote: »
    You must be drinking the stuff if you think a LL advising a tenant to use a product could end up in a court case. Honestly some people are so afraid of being sued or non-existent reasons I'm surprised they get up in the morning.

    In fairness, you probably shouldn't be telling random people to use something which is labelled as for trade use, and is sulphuric acid based, and warns that it's not suitable for showers, on their shower. I would have thought that advising an appropriate shower-safe agent would be fine, tho?


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    #43
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Gravelly wrote: »
    It sold in Mr. feckin Price, and every hardware store. It's not exactly uranium. If people can't handle household chemicals they'll probably have succumbed to domestos or toilet duck before reaching adulthood.

    It's what yobs in england are using in acid attacks. My wife bough it for a sink in our house by mistake. I wouldn't let it in the house incase the kids found it. Offered it to a plumber who lives next door and he said no way he never uses it. Ended up taking it to Council disposal site


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    #44
    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    spaceHopper wrote: »
    It's what yobs in england are using in acid attacks. My wife bough it for a sink in our house by mistake. I wouldn't let it in the house incase the kids found it. Offered it to a plumber who lives next door and he said no way he never uses it. Ended up taking it to Council disposal site

    Jaysus, who'd have known it was so scary.


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    #45
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Maybe I'm a wimp, but I'd rather throw a couple of euros of chemical in there than go rooting around in someone else's dead skin cells, hair, and (probably) bodily fluids.

    Rubber gloves ;)


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    #46
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,465 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Most shower drains have removable traps that simply unscrew and pull out for cleaning. Most of the hair ends up tangled around this, and is easily removed without wasting money on nasty corrosive chemicals, and is much more effective. Plenty of YouTube videos explaining how to do it.


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