before i go dumping a bunch of random chemicals down the drain...

[TheSnakeGeek]

i wash my snakes hide and water bowl in our bathroom sink. i've recently noticed our sink has started to have the wonderful aroma of snake feces creeping out. lovely. i never wash turds down the sink so it must be from the residual slime. what works good for making your sink smell like roses?


(sorry if this is in the wrong section, i've been up since this morning cramming for a final and i'm long past delirious )

[pigfat]

I would get some drain cleaner, or run bleach through it and then lots of hot water.

[kevinb]

Be careful with bleach though, its highly corrosive. Coming from experience.

[Mike41793]

Diluted bleach solution or a cleaning product like drain-o would probably do the trick

[3skulls]

Get a foaming cleaner so it cleans the sides of the pipe.

[Chkadii]

It might be from debris hanging from the top of the drain catching fecal matter and keeping it.

I kept having trouble with clogs in our apartment's sink and maintenance was no help. I tried drain-o a few times but it didn't seem to work long, if at all. Eventually I bought a drain snake thing for $2. It's a long bendy plastic piece with little "arms" all up the sides to grab hair. I pulled up a kittens worth of hair and had no trouble after that.

Even if your sink is draining fine it's worth considering on top of drain cleaner... The product is $2 and reusable, much better than spending $40 on drain-o if the smell remains.

[EAC Reptiles]

Clean out the trap in your sink. It is most likely filled with nasty crap and needs to be cleaned. Then use some kind of drain cleaner followed by a lot of hot water.

[schrammalot]

Have you tried a crapton of baking soda and vinegar? Usually gets rid of the smell (plus, who doesn't like to make a giant volcano in the sink?!)

[kitedemon]

Vinegar and baking soda does well for me I actually plug the drain so it foams in the pipes and out the over flow. Bleach will also work. NEVER NEVER use bleach and then try drain cleaner or vise versa with out running lots LOTS of water the two mixed will make chlorine gas !!! just because it is for household use doesn't mean it is safe and can be treated haphazardly.

[sorraia]

Have you tried a crapton of baking soda and vinegar? Usually gets rid of the smell (plus, who doesn't like to make a giant volcano in the sink?!)

I've done this in my kitchen sink. Have also used hydrogen peroxide (separately) and had success.