ResidentialBathroom drains
Bathroom Sink, Tub and Shower Drain Clogs
Hair, soap and toothpaste form a stubborn mat in the first few feet of a bathroom drain. Reaching it cleanly, without scratching the tub or cracking a pop-up, is most of the job.
A variety of hand tools including wrenches, screwdrivers, and pliers on a wooden surface.
- Traps and cleanouts opened instead of forcing a cable through the fixture
- Cable heads and jetter nozzles matched to the pipe size
- Line run under load and proven clear before we pack up
- Camera look offered when the same line keeps blocking
- Licensing details confirmed when you call
- Residential
- Commercial
- Markham & York Region
How the job runs
- Shower water pools around your ankles before you finish rinsing.
- The lavatory sink drains slowly even with the stopper pulled out.
- A bubbling sound comes from the tub when the sink empties.
- Black slime collects on the pop-up stopper every week.
What's included on this job
What we open
The pop-up assembly in the vanity, the tub overflow plate, or the shower strainer screws.
What we bring
Hair snake, small drum auger, strainer wrench, and a flashlight to look down the tub shoe.
What we replace
Pop-up rod and ball seal, the tub drain shoe gasket, or a corroded shower strainer body.
How we prove it
Full basin and full tub drained while we watch the trap and the ceiling below for drips.
Signs you need this
- Shower water up to your ankles
- Vanity sink taking minutes to empty
- Tub drain making a slurping sound
- Hair visible just under the stopper
Why it happens here
Family bathrooms in Markham often serve four or five people a day, and long hair is the main culprit. Many houses built in the 1990s and 2000s also have tub drains with a trip-lever overflow, which hides the clog behind a plate. In older bathrooms, a pop-up rod set too low catches hair like a comb. Hard minerals in the water help the scum stick to every surface.
How we handle the job
- We pull the stopper or strainer and clear what we can reach by hand.
- For tubs, we go through the overflow opening with a small cable so the finish stays clean.
- For sinks, we remove the trap below to work straight into the wall line.
- We reset the pop-up linkage so it opens fully and stops catching hair.
- We fill and drain each fixture to prove it flows freely.
When the shower is the problem
Walk-in showers with a tiled base drain through a small grate that hides a deep trap. If the grate is screwed down or set into tile, we take care to lift it without chipping the grout around it.
From the van: A simple mesh catcher over the drain saves most households one service call a year.
What changes the cost
A sink clog at the trap is quick. A tub line that runs a long way across the floor to the stack, or a clog that has reached the shared branch with the toilet, takes more time. Seized metal fittings on older vanities sometimes need replacing as we go, and we will ask first.
Most bathroom clogs live within the first eighteen inches. We pull them out instead of pushing them deeper.
Call before it gets worse
Water that sits in a tub or shower overnight can find its way past caulking. A slow drain today is cheaper than a stained ceiling below tomorrow.