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NYDRAINS (NYDRAINS @ YouTube) shows a couple of quick and simple drain-clearing jobs.

The first job is at a bathroom with a walk-in shower that isn’t draining properly. The shower’s water is turned on to allow some to accumulate, and then a motorized drain snake is fed through the shower’s drain. After snaking the drain for a little while, the water that collected earlier in the shower eventually begins to drain away. When the snake is removed, some hair and an unidentifiable piece of hard white plastic is found on the end.

The second job also involves a walk-in shower where the water begins to back up when the shower is on. The drain’s grate is removed using a screwdriver, and a motorized drain snake is inserted into the drain. It doesn’t take long for the water that had pooled to begin draining away. When the snake is pulled back, there is some hair on the end of it. The drain’s grate is then replaced.

Gavin (Penetrator Blocked Drains @ YouTube; Turbo Plumbing Solutions) is at a home with a bathroom drainage system that appears to be obstructed.

He uses a drill-powered drain snake that’s fed into the pipe via a drain in the bathroom floor. Although the system is draining somewhat after a little while of using the drain snake, Gavin becomes suspicious about what’s actually going on inside the pipe. He puts the drain camera down and does see roots, but begins to think that they may be in an overflow relief gully.

After going outside the house, he uses the pipe locator and determines that the camera is below ground in a landscaped area just outside the bathroom’s window. After brushing aside the loose landscaping material using his hand, he quickly discovers a grate covering a gully. Some roots can even be seen growing in through the grate’s openings. Gavin removes the grate, and he’s then able to manually pull out some clumps of roots, thus clearing the obstruction.

NYDRAINS (NYDRAINS @ YouTube) is working in a narrow bathroom, with a clogged toilet at one end, a sink in the middle, and a shower at the other end. When the sink is turned on, water begins to back up into the shower.

A pit with the U-shaped trap connecting the building to the external sewer system is located down a hallway from the bathroom. Some water seepage is noted around one of the trap’s two lids, suggesting that the trap is probably clogged.

The lid that doesn’t exhibit any obvious seepage is removed by tapping at it with a hammer, and once it’s open, the pipe appears empty on that side of the trap. The other lid is then tapped open using the hammer, and it is under pressure. The backed-up sewage leaks out into the pit, where it eventually drains out through the other opening. What appears to be some wipes are visible in the pit after the sewage drains away.

A motorized plumber’s snake is used to clear the clog in the trap. When the snake is removed, wipes are found wrapped around the end of it, and they’re peeled off by hand. The pipe leading back toward the bathroom is briefly cleaned with the auger, too, to ensure there are no additional obstructions in that direction.

Back in the bathroom, the previously-full toilet bowl appears to have drained. The water in the sink is still running, and no water is observed backing up into the nearby shower. The toilet is flushed, and it drains away fine.

At the trap pit, water can be observed flowing through the system via both of the trap’s inspection openings. The lids covering those openings are then put back in place, and tapped in with the hammer. The pile of wipes that were removed from the trap is shown.

Oliver (Drain Addict @ YouTube; Drain Go) is working in an apartment suite in a multi-unit building with an amazing view of the Sydney, Australia skyline. One of the suite’s bathroom sinks is not draining properly. He notices that a chemical, likely acidic, has apparently been used by somebody else earlier to try to clear the drain.

While trying to get access to the drain by removing a section of the pipe in the cabinet underneath the sink, he accidentally gets splashed with some of the potent chemical. After washing it off in the bathroom’s other sink, he manages to remove the pipe.

A drill-powered drain snake is used to pop the blockage, but some of the chemical remains in the pipe. A bucket is then used to pour some water from the shower down the sink’s drain to flush away the chemical.

The drain camera is used to inspect the pipe, and the blockage appears to be scale, concrete, or something similar. Using the drain snake again, Oliver manages to break up most of the obstruction.

After putting the previously-removed drain pipe back in place, he wipes up some water that splashed around while he was cleaning the drain. The sink is then partially filled with water with the drain plug in, and the plug is then removed to show that the sink is able to drain.

While inspecting the pipe beneath the sink, Oliver notices some water on the floor, near the drain pipe. He wipes it up with a towel, and then partially fills the sink with water once more. After the water is released, there doesn’t appear to be any more water ending up on the floor.

At the very end of the video, he shows how the chemical that he’d encountered during the job had caused some significant damage to his work pants.

Carsten (Kempinger Rohrreinigung Berlin @ YouTube; Kempinger GmbH) is in a bathroom with a toilet that isn’t flushing well. He takes the toilet off of the wall to inspect its drain, as well as the drain pipe it connects to. An inspection with a camera shows that there don’t appear to be any blockages in the toilet or the pipe, but there is some scale buildup in both. A chain attachment on a drain snake is used to try to dislodge some of the buildup from the pipe and the toilet, and what appears to be a bent screwdriver is used to manually help scrape some remaining buildup from the toilet’s drain in order to get it flushing properly.