Comments on: Can plumber snakes can be used without electricity or gas?

By: Landon Burn

Landon Burn — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:20:51 +0000

Yes there are. Are you wanting to clear a certain problem ? Or do you just want to keep one on hand when and if you do get a plug ?
Sink drains just use plunger.
Stools they have a stool snake, hand held and operated.
Main drain is what the other answers are talking about.

By: Kelan Dent

Kelan Dent — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:06:19 +0000

There is a hand held snake with a handle on the rear housing of the unit. You turn the drum by turning the handle, but you have to feed the snake down any drain by hand. You can get them with various lengths of the snake that’s inside the rotating drum. I have a 35′ snake with mine, but if you can find one with a swivel on the end of the snake, it’s allot easier to make it past the P-trap. Especially in a bathtub drain.

By: Devyn Calvert

Devyn Calvert — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:40:01 +0000

My landlord had one that was wind up and she turned the lever to snake the drain. If the clog isn’t too bad, they have the snake “cans” where you put them over the drain and then push down and it “snakes” with air pressure, but unfortunately, when I did that it blew up in my face. I ended up taking the plumbing apart and cleaning out the pipes but what a mess that was.