URINALS OVERFLOWING WITH URINE/CALCIUM UNCLOGGING - Drain Pros Ep. 32

Plug your nose....Urinals are the worst!
In this video we are unclogging two urinals in a can recycling factory with several different size cables on our general cable machine. We hit the secondary 1-1/2" copper drain line first to find out the 3" copper pipe was clogged under the floor. The urinals were also caked with old calcium build up from urine, we used a screw driver to reopen the holes to speed up the drainages on both urinals.
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[@rb89509]

That spot you cleaned on the floor is the cleanest part of that dump.

[@SOU6900]

Warehouses are usually dumps anyway

[@tripjet999]

Appears that entire building is treated like a s**t hole.

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

Something you guys might try for calcium build up is muriatic acid. You can get it pretty cheap at most hardware stores, and it'll even dissolve rust stains and other crap on porcelain. I've seen old fixtures work just like they're brand new from it.

[@ayunnxa]

I just watched one of your videos yesterday and now I super addicted

[@kempingerrohrreinigungberlin]

Oh come on, that surely satisfies both of you and you had real fun together...😅 Have both a nice weekend !

[@DrainPros]

Kempinger 😂! It’s always nice having a second guy on the job.. have a great weekend!

[@randomnotes4258]

His name still apears as kempinger rohreinigung berlin xd

[@RavynMancer]

I think I want to go somewhere quiet and safe now (and clean, jesus that place) and just be glad for guys like this in the world.

[@alternativeperception6949]

So chewing gum, pubes and piss crystals to unblock. I work in drainage and urinals still have potential to make me nearly spew

[@DrainPros]

😂😂😂! Thanks for watching Potato!

[@chrisgordon5719]

Sounds like your customers use Urinals for a Water Closet.

[@connorpriehs6548]

Hi can’t

[@krypton839]

Drinking my coffee at 6am and watching drain opening videos. Love watching you and Drain Addict. Thinking about doing this at my company as well. The things us drain guys see 🤣

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

[@DeadKoby]

Now that they are pushing for "waterless" urinals, and low-flow, I wonder if that makes the potential for pipe build up all the worse.

[@CopenhagenRayne]

I volonteer at a student bar in Denmark, the university sponsored us switching to waterless, after many many manhours Dealing with urine crystals, and very expensive filters breaking We have finally switched back to a standard, rinse the trap and plenty of warm water through the system every other month and and the bar stinks way less of piss

[@MrGGPRI]

Here in Californicate our corrupted politicians are promoting trees instead of urinals..

[@charlesmurphy1510]

Good job guys! Just shovel the mess over next to the other mess lol

[@DrainPros]

Charles Murphy Lol 😂 we try and clean it up to make it look like we were never there, unfortunately at this place that’s no possible! Appreciate you watching 👍

[@joshtaylor1553]

Good stuff fellas!

[@jamesw.houston4144]

The urinals when they get like that it gets very horrible and smelly and I don't have traps like that!! Very awesome video! Thank you

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

1:25 A blowtorch should help remove the hair from the tip...

[@erickmorton8085]

Drain addict brought me here

[@DrainPros]

Erick Morton Welcome!!

[@joeyshoez438]

Fact def found his channel through him too.. I found addict at 2am down a weird recommend video path lol woulda never thought about searching something like this... 😭😭

[@DrainPros]

Joey Shoez 😂 Welcome! I love watching his videos as well.. I decided to start my channel after seeing a couple different channels doing the same things I ran into during work daily!

[@PlasmaRaven]

me to

[@PlasmaRaven]

hey i got a ? to anyone in the world i chew alot of snuff does any one know if snuff is getting impacted by this virus i hope not or ill go crazy

[@lowceez2]

That bathroom is a mess! Nice clean up guys but I don’t think anyone would’ve noticed if you just left the drywall and calcium there. Tu at green dumpster was filled to the brim 🤣🤣

[@keithbuckenmeyer8659]

Great video! 🙂👍

[@DrainPros]

Thanks Keith, Have a great weekend! 👍

[@ryuchime9145]

I watch the same kind of things and to me its satisfying

[@RavynMancer]

Yeah. To me this is just like watching Dr. Pimple Popper. So gross and painful, until the end. ha ha when it's all over and fixed. lol.

[@sh2697]

also why didnt you go from under the urinal p trap to snake? Would that be easier than breaking the drywall?

[@ghosthunter5656]

I seen an Aussie use Hydrochloric acid and it worked great!

[@suckamc3232]

They sell a urinal drain cleaner it eats away at the calcium works awesome my local plumbing supply switched companies they were bought out and it sucks they no longer carry it I’ve been meaning to look on line for it and have our secretary order some

[@handymaninside]

I ran my little faucet augur $10 (lowes) into a modern urinal today many times and I could fell the calcium get pushed further in and bet broken up, then I used my $20 (Amazon) air blaster 5-7 times for good measure to with flushes to make sure it gets to the bigger drain line

[@mattwolf7698]

This is one of the nastiest places I've ever seen.

[@BridMhor]

I've seen other online plumbers use hydrocloric acid and a plunger and it's cleared easily, no digging into walls.

[@thatguy_jose]

From what I’ve seen and herd people use muratic acid to undo clogs. Don’t know if it’s true. Would like to know. Thanks :)

[@DrainPros]

StoneWell Forever Definitely! People have been burning the calcium out of urinals and toilets for years. It’s safe for the porcelain and plastic piping but weakens and thins out the metal pipes such as copper/galvanized/cast iron, so a lot depends on what kind of piping you have do the line if we are going to use it. We have some stuff that has an odor additives in it so while we let the acid sit, it doesn’t stink everyone out of the restaurant! 👍

[@gregt6688]

The only time I used vix under my nose was cleaning a line that served a boys bathroom at our high-school the line was put in 1960

[@RavynMancer]

oh my god that sounds unbelievably grim. salute to you.

[@Toe6918]

How are you handling that smell?

[@slicedbanana3968]

My nose is clogged, come unclog it 😂

[@oscar.gonzalez]

Damn! Didn't know urine caused issues. Is this more prevalent with those water saving urinals?

[@andrewkiwi1]

Do you clean the pipes out with caustic soda or is that frowned on these days.

[@DrainPros]

Frowned on now a days! If all the pipes were made of plastic it wouldn’t be an issue at all, but on this one it’s copper and cast iron under the ground so the acid eats away at the pipes as well as the clog. 👍

[@guidito01]

Love ur voice

[@DrainPros]

Thanks you Guidito ❤️! I cringe every time I hear it after uploading... feel like that’s common with most people tho hearing their own voice

[@guidito01]

@@DrainPros id love to see your face!

[@lossycompressed]

So, this was in my Recommended... What are you trying to say KZbin?!

[@DrainPros]

I swear with my recommendation it’s like KZbin is trying to get me out of my comfort zone 😂 welcome to the channel Daniel! Appreciate you taking the time to check us out 👍

[@kenrutigliano6569]

that poor screw driver lol

[@DrainPros]

😂 Yeah that one needed a good sanitation bath 🛁!!!

[@my400lbstruggle4]

I didn't see you clean out the trap on the second urinal even though you were able to get it to go down a little better you know good and well that trap is filled to the brim like the first one

[@dexterrodriguez2012]

That happend at my school once

[@lwing77]

So vinegar is good to use???

[@justaseagull8406]

What a filthy building. And he tried to wipe up a nasty floor at the end.

[@louietheplumber3609]

On a 2" drain go in with a 1/2" cable specially for urinals

[@mlonghammer8388]

Sizzle is your friend

[@mcoy12garcia]

If you have access from the back cut the vent go from there no mess

[@boysrback5690]

Easiest way pull urinals put in 2" plug fill with acid soak for 1hr or so done! do it all the time fastest way. In the long run no call backs now you see how our kidneys feel. Newer urinals are even harder to clean built in traps longer soak need plug to keep acid in contact. The ones with internal trap if its real chunky after soaking send piano wire thru and tie it to string and flush with water hose out bottom then use wire like a hand saw back and forth in trap just not super hard will cut gouges in porcelain. Will clean it right up. But in newer ones and customers are rushed. swap out is in order that's why I keep two three types of urinals on hand for that 8pm party on friday or satuday night middle of summer 100deg stinks like a pigfarm. Usually just dumping acid in drain won't work you cant keep trap totally full of acid. Just make sure you scrub under your nails nothing like bitting your nail and getting a bite of a piss pebble nasty. Rather shit hit me in the face. Then fermented who knows what. I will gag at some rotten ass urine then walking in and snaking a sewer or rotten grease trap.

[@DrainPros]

That’s a pretty cool idea! 👍 always the 8pm Friday party going on when 💩 hits the fan!

[@RavynMancer]

bloody hell. Ha Ha.

[@serjitgill3405]

I did one just today

[@SOU6900]

Are those drain pipes copper?😕

[@PlasmaRaven]

then it would last even alot longer for years and not have any issues i mean i gess i understand if people dont have alot of money like you know new toilets new plumbing new walls cement cleaned up etc

[@PlasmaRaven]

i mean heck they way that room looks like looks so old needs updated to modern

[@arthurnogood7450]

Yesterday you are the enterologist, today you are the urologist.

[@DrainPros]

Haha 😂!

[@slicedbanana3968]

If it was yesterday, you would have to say were. No offense

[@arthurnogood7450]

@@slicedbanana3968 Thank you. English is not my mother tongue, it's my bad not my grammar teachers', they did teach me that.

[@sh2697]

That looks like a 5/16 cable?

[@DrainPros]

Yeah we use 5/16” cable on most kitchen and bathroom drains.. 5/8” on the bigger stuff

[@johnschirloff836]

What about just Taking The 2 Urinals off The Wall and Cleaning it out????

[@erictaylor7996]

Was this ground zero for covid?

[@DrainPros]

Haha 😂 not sure, but it’s the first place I would check!

[@williamwilliams4559]

is it calcium or AJAX ??

[@flashy902]

How does a urenal Ger clogged

[@rhysspieces2436]

Over time the wee builds up in the pipes

[@amh75ify]

That bathroom looks like the seventh circle of hell. Probably smells like it too.

[@ohmimprovement5767]

You should get a spartan 100 machine, with a drop head. I can't stand them little machines like you have, they're such a pain in the arse! Lol

[@PlasmaRaven]

in my opion places that look like that should be redone and look new again like all new walls ne toilets etc

[@DrainPros]

Yeah some bathrooms are super dirty. This one is for the ware house guys out on the floor and looks like it’s been pieced together over the years as things have broken. I don’t see them changing anything any time soon. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!👍

[@PlasmaRaven]

@@DrainPros yea i know of this whole dam virus just wish it would disappear and everything go back to normal again

[@sabrinafelber]

Did you really say grab a rag and we will clean this up? You just cleaned off of a severly pissed on floor hard calcium from piss?lol! Sorry cleaning lady here and I couldn't bypass the ridiculiously futile effort but good on you for going for it and being professional.

[@xmasgrump2398]

Not all hero’s wear capes! Some deal with poop and pee pee. 😎😎😎😎😎

[@missstief8109]

What happened

[@chrisgordon5719]

Oh for Christ Sakes. Run a drain snake through a Urinal? Just tell the owners to put a cup or more of white vinegar in the water. Leave it as long as possible. Change it as often as possible. There is a lot of Calcium in human Urine. Most Urinal fixtures you can't even get it through the internal trap. It always depends on how the plumber piped the urinal drains. I never found one that couldn't be cleaned with Vinegar. Urinals have 2" drains. If they drain into 3", there is a good chance that a snake will go UP the pipe and not down. Over 50 years says I know what I am talking about.

[@mungrus]

White vinegar down the urinal to clear it out?

[@Ariccio123]

Maybe someone should design a urinal that auto dispenses a tiny bit of acid in every flush? Wait is that what urinal cakes are for?

[@chrisgordon5719]

@@Ariccio123 If Numb Nuts would stop shutting down the water flow to urinals, the problem goes away. Unless it is already calcified. Besides, on almost every ud=rinal I ever worked on, you couldn't get a snake through the trap-way.

[@Ariccio123]

@@chrisgordon5719 ...are you talking about water savings? I mean, that's absolutely a good thing, and even design changes like adding acid are preferable to water waste.

[@chrisgordon5719]

@@mungrus White Vinegar is a mild acid. What do you think Drain cleaner is? A stronger acid. If you wear any type of dental appliance in your mouth, it will get calcium deposits and turn white. You can buy commercial products to clean them. Or leave in in White Vinegar overnight. Cheaper and better.

[@qeelevators2960]

Most urinals have urinal mints (:

[@DrainPros]

Haha yeah not sure why they aren’t using them.. after most urinals we through them in with a pad that says “we aim to please, you aim too please” 👍

[@thomaslowdon5510]

Take the u bend pipe off under the urinal youll see the calcium build up

[@chrisgordon5719]

That's true. But it gets harder and harder to buy urinals with external traps. They don't make them anymore. So you have to get them from building salvage yards.

[@peterstepanov8062]

@@chrisgordon5719 Why'd they stop?

[@plumbcrazy375]

Muriatic acid will clean it up and make it shine

[@DrainPros]

Only time I love seeing acid is when it’s being dropped into a urinal.. does an awesome job 👍

[@cristobalcampos2011]

DATE 20/2/2020 ME: WOAH SO MANY 2!

[@thedon7536]

Make sure you wipe your feet on the way out lol

[@davidtourville6150]

What up man new to the channel but have seen a few vidRos and u do a good job. I work for Mr Rooter in MA. Have seen the vans in a couple vids. And yea urinals are the worst. I’d rather pull a shitter everyday of the week and twice on Sunday than a urinal 🤣

[@DrainPros]

Nice to meet you David! Definitely on pulling a toilet over a urinal any day of the week! Keep fighting the good fight brother 🍻

[@chrisreynolds2410]

Mass is pretty cool what part are you in?

[@alexchaffin6265]

If I had a dollar for every time the “snake went the wrong way” when trying to unclog something I’d be a millionaire.

[@NachoMega]

I found this by looking at #overflowing

[@chrisgordon5719]

As soon as a Urinal starts slowing down, they close off the water flow so it doesn't overflow. If it overflows, there isn't enough water flowing through the Urinals. That's by body sensing Flushometers help solve the problem. Then, no one wants to tough the Flushometer handle. So the urine gets super concentrated and the calcium crystals get worse and worse. Is that a Copper waste on those Urinals? No code in the USA allows copper tubing for Urinal Wastes. It MUST be IPS pipe. UPSTATE New York? Were exposed P-Traps ever allowed in New York? They aren't allowed in New York City and they aren't allowed in Massachusetts. For REASON.

[@DrainPros]

We don’t see them to often up here Chris. I think it was more of a handy man that put that bathroom together and that why they have to exterior traps. Really the only situation we run into them up here are the bars, and I’d say that’s for easy access when the place is crowded. I believe the code is only interior traps but I’d have to break out my book to be 100%!

[@chrisgordon5719]

@@DrainPros That looks like used equipment. However, never forget or underestimate the effect of the toilet tank not having enough water in it. Especially with those Hunter ball cocks that I never could figure out how to adjust them. Some toilet tanks need the water level in the tank just below the overfill tube.

[@jstu45]

Sizzle for 30 minutes

[@pieroelias3545]

Canada

[@coltongoff456]

Lemonade anyone!?

[@donstantonhobbiesandworkvideos]

Or u could of just taking off the two traps first.....FFS

[@johnschirloff836]

Do Urinals like That have WAX Seals????

[@serjitgill3405]

Open up the p trap under the urinal buddy

[@stevenolsen6360]

water is cheaper than a plumber- what fool boss told the men to flush once a month

[@riverpheonix6730]

How the hell do you clog a urinal?

[@DrainPros]

Larry Johnson Almost always with a hoot best down of the pipe with a cable machine. The pipes for urinals get loaded with calcium build up from urine and it’s when it hardens in its rock form it can be a pain in the butt! 👍

[@thomaslowdon5510]

Its calcified salt from urine dries and clogs ..not enough flushes

[@DrainPros]

Thomas Lowdon Absolutely! What a pain it can be sometimes 👍

[@Highstranger951]

By being a sloppy lazy asshole, that’s how

[@77cuzigetatemore]

For some reason men piss in the urinal and walk away and don't flush. This causes uric salt to build up quicker. The urinals in my factory have no drain covers just a gaping hole, with a rubbery deodorizer screen sitting in there. U can see the build up, reminds me of stalactites in a cave or the crystals of a geode.

[@kaib1125]

quick and easiest way of getting rid of hair is burn it (:

[@DrainPros]

Seems like that’s one of the only ways to get rid of hair. Even the drain acids don’t really break the hair down. 👍

[@kaib1125]

@@DrainPros i agree tbh

[@nadireakgullu332]

You can watch this full 2160p what

[@poppypuff]

Be better to just flatten the whole building, yikes

[@DrainPros]

poppypuff Lol bring in the dozer! 🚜

[@RavynMancer]

Oh I know. What a mess!

[@lianasmith2589]

Why can I smell pee after watching this? Made my nose hairs burn off and I am not even there

[@DrainPros]

😂 Weird how the brain plays trick on you!

[@rustywilliams9044]

Yummy

[@rhysspieces2436]

is that all piss?

[@kurtismckemmie4850]

CLR will break that up.

[@DrainPros]

Funny that you say that.. the manager was going to dump some in the next few night after to see if it would break up some of the calcium before entering the trap 👍

[@yensabi]

There is not enough fall on that urinal pipe that goes into the main stack , there lies the problem and will keep getting blocked until re piped properly.....👍

[@DrainPros]

Yeah looks pretty flat.. I’m not entirely sure that the warehouse workers are twisting the knob to flush either, so it pretty much straight urine non diluted slowly flushing out causing the calcium to form up! 👍 Thanks for watching yensabi!

[@purplewizards]

You could have done that without drilling any holes in behind there 😒

[@mikespikedog5293]

The only way to fix that bathroom is 5 gallon of deasel fuel and a match. I don't care if it is a factory there is no reason for a restroom to be that filthy.

[@rabidgurly5989]

ok so ik shit is bad but 4 some reason piss is just....💀💀

[@islndaze]

Those are like the worst urinals! What brand is that, so I know not to buy those!

[@yoboi5775]

Ooof

[@friendlyneighborhoodcow8776]

Jesus

[@papabits5721]

That ain’t water

[@DrainPros]

papa bits Definitely wouldn’t drink that stuff 😂😂!

[@SGCgleaton]

If you know its out of order stop using it

[@chrisreynolds2410]

Your comment is out of order

[@braniganirby7676]

Vac

[@Aestriagtag]

OFF

[@loulou7983]

Jeez man lay off the fiber just sayin🤣

[@loulou7983]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@donniecatalano]

the place is pretty disgusting, damn

[@pmesoy]

I can litterly see paper DONT BUT PAPER IN MENS TOILETS!😡

[@ameerawaqleh6632]

يطن

[@DrainPros]

Absolutely buzzing! 👍

[@oxnard8316]

Jesus pull the urinal Instead if drilling a hole in the pipe

[@slicedbanana3968]

Are you a expert plumber? If not, shut the fuck up

[@slicedbanana3968]

Also you can't just "pull" a random pipe like it's not tightly closed. Also the pipe was old, so if you did pull it, it would break and the urine would run around the walls and basically, only rebuilding everything would work

[@oxnard8316]

Sliced Banana damn man are you good haha

[@lwing77]

I am a cleaner urinals are the most disgusting things on earth

[@19RioR93]

Your soon Intense about your job😂 easy man.... Its just unclogging pipes.

[@ac-130fan]

You’ve clearly never had a bad backup. Now just imagine one on an 8inch sewer pipe every week. Take into consideration the stench, time, energy, and disgust that goes into each job.

[@missstief8109]

GROSS