Author: Jason Fitzpatrick / Source: reviewgeek.com
You or somebody in your household has long hair. The hair wages a constant battle against the shower drain. If you’re tired of dealing with a slow draining shower, we’re here to help.
Even if you do your best to catch the hair and stick it to the side of the shower stall to dispose of after your shower, a bunch of hair always makes its way to the drain despite your best efforts.
The following tools are inexpensive and will help you prevent and deal with the inevitable clogs.A Good Hair Catcher: The TubShroom ($13)
We gave the TubShroom a shoutout in our article Five $20 and Under Bathroom Upgrades You Should Buy Right Now, for good reason. It’s ridiculously good at what it does.
When it comes to hair clogs, the single best thing you can do is to keep the hair from getting in the drain in the first place. The TubShroom’s design is excellent at both preventing the hair from getting into the drain and keeping the water draining while you’re using it.
Unlike most hair catchers, it doesn’t slowly clog up with hair and start backing up. The mushroom-like design helps the hair wrap around the base and the top keeps the drain open so you don’t have to empty it while you’re showering. There’s even a wide version for bigger shower-stall drains called, naturally, the ShowerShroom.
A Flexible Snake: The Cobra Zip-It ($6)
You might only think of drain snakes in terms of the big ol’ steel cable monsters your plumber busts out to clear the main drain of your home. For nabbing a hair clog that’s right at the drain opening, however, a much lighter (and cheaper) tool is perfect.
The Cobra Zip-It is a 17-inch long flexible plastic rod with a pull ring and a narrow shaft with barbs on it. The idea is that you feed the rod down into the drain where the barbs slide past the clog and then you wiggle it and pull it back out. The barbs dig into the clog on the whole thing comes sliding out. It works incredibly well and we’ve pulled numerous hair clogs out with it over the years.
Although the company labels the Zip-It as…
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