I live on the bottom floor in a building in beautiful Portland, OR and above me are a few people with long hair. As nice as my neighbors are, once in a while their drains clog up and when they unclog, it all shoots down to mine and I'm stuck with double the headache.

One of the last things I want to do is pour chemicals that could strip the paint off a steel bridge down my drain to clear a clog.

While thinking of a way to solve my puddle problem during a shower, I decided to Google around for a bit and try a few things.

My finding show that baking soda and vinegar works well at loosening a clog. Then hitting it with a 6 or 7 cups of boiling hot water from a tea pot usually puts the nail in the coffin for that annoyance.

The hot water trick worked so well, I run a tea pot full of it through the drains once or twice a week.

Now go keep your drains clear.