Throw THIS in Your Sink and the Drain Will Never Clog Again (The Mexican Way)

#drain #cleaninghacks #themexicanway 📖 Get Bertha's Cleaning Book, every method for the whole house, written down: https://berthacleans.com Turn on your kitchen tap and watch the drain. Slow, with a little pool that turns before it goes, and that sour smell when you lean over the hole. You poured the blue jug last month and it ran fast for a week. Mija, it is not your old pipes. A clog is not an accident, it is a coat of grease that goes on the inside of the pipe every night you cook, one hair's width at a time. And the way you stop it is also a habit. THE JAR (lives under the sink): half sal gruesa (coarse salt), half bicarbonato (baking soda), in a glass jar with a lid. - At night: half a cup down the drain, dry. Leave it. Do not run the water - In the morning: one kettle of hot water, poured slowly in two or three pours - Salt scrubs the wall, soda swallows the sour smell, hot water softens the grease and carries it out - Every night the first week, then twice a week HONEST WORD: baking soda and vinegar poured together cancel each other. The fizz is for show and it goes UP into your kitchen, not down the pipe. In this house the vinegar comes once a week, by itself, after the soda has sat all night: one cup, ten minutes, then the kettle. It eats the slime at the top of the drain where the smell lives. It does not open a clog. THE PLUMBER'S TRICK (once a week): pull the strainer, a long squeeze of dish soap down the hole (a quarter of the bottle if it is slow), wait ten minutes, put the stopper in, fill the sink to the rim with the hottest tap water, pull the stopper. A kettle is a cup. A full sink is a flood. Two basins, one at a time. Disposal: run it a moment under cold water first. MY MOTHER'S LEMON CUBES: half a lemon, peel and all, in the blender with just enough water to cover and two spoons of salt. Strain it (pulp to the garden, never the drain), one drop of dish soap, freeze in the ice tray. One cube down the drain at night, the kettle in the morning. WHAT NEVER GOES DOWN: grease and oil (la lata de la manteca, the coffee can by the stove), rice, beans, masa, coffee grounds. Scrape every plate into the trash first and keep a strainer basket (coladera) in the drain, emptied every night. HONEST WORDS: the jar is for a slow or sour drain and for keeping a good one good. A sink full of standing water needs the plunger done right (wet rag stuffed into the other basin and the overflow, ten good strokes), then the P-trap: bucket under the U, two plastic nuts by hand, rinse, screw back, check for drips. FOUR CAUTIONS: no boiling water down plastic pipe (hottest tap water, poured slowly). Never the jar, the soap or hot water after the blue jug (caustic, it can splash back). Never with the disposal running. More than one slow drain at once = the main line, call someone. THE HABITS: scrape the plates, grease in the can, the jar at night and the kettle in the morning, the full sink on Sunday, the strainer emptied when you close the kitchen. Quien no arregla la gotera, arregla la casa entera. Tonight, fill the jar and pour the first half cup. Tell me in the comments what your mother kept by the stove for the grease, the can, the jar or the old pan, and your county. I read every one. CHAPTERS 0:00 Turn on the tap and watch your drain 0:49 Why your drain keeps slowing down 1:39 What is really inside the pipe 2:40 The jar: coarse salt and baking soda 3:20 Why each one works 4:00 Baking soda and vinegar: the fizz is for show 4:52 The plumber's trick: fill the sink and release 5:48 My mother's lemon ice cubes 6:35 The grease can, and what never goes down 7:33 Honest words: standing water, the plunger, the trap 8:28 Four cautions 9:09 Who profits 10:01 The habits 10:29 What did your mother keep by the stove? #cleaningtips #kitchenhacks #cleanhome