{"id":18754,"date":"2011-09-29T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/?p=18754"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T17:01:01","slug":"use-baking-soda-as-a-natural-way-to-unclog-drains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/use-baking-soda-as-a-natural-way-to-unclog-drains\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Baking Soda as a Natural Way to Unclog Drains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do your drains get clogged? Mine do. I found that clogged drains were especially bad in rental houses because people would move in and out so often no one worried about a slow drain.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sinking Feeling by leosaumurejr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18325571@N00\/4430791211\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4048\/4430791211_37a6befb3d.jpg\" alt=\"Sinking Feeling\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I have used the industrial stuff to unclog my drains I&#8217;ve found a natural method that works really well. Not only will it not poison your children you probably have these supplies around your home so you won&#8217;t need to run out to the store.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you unclog a drain naturally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baking Soda<\/li>\n<li>Vinegar<\/li>\n<li>Plug<\/li>\n<li>Hot Water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pour about a cup of baking soda down the clogged drain. Then pour about 3\/4 cup of vinegar down the drain. Plug or cover the drain.<\/p>\n<p>Wait 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the part where people go wrong and then complain it doesn&#8217;t work. You must wait 30 minutes before the next step to allow the baking soda and vinegar to work together to break up the clog.<\/p>\n<p>After 30 minutes slowly pour about a 1\/2 gallon of boiling water down your drain. The water must be boiling, not hot so make sure your kids are a safe distance away while unclogging the drain.<\/p>\n<p>It usually works the first time, but if not you can repeat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do your drains get clogged? Mine do. I found that clogged drains were especially bad in rental houses because people would move in and out so often no one worried about a slow drain. While I have used the industrial stuff to unclog my drains I&#8217;ve found a natural method that works really well. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2555],"class_list":{"0":"post-18754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-and-tricks","7":"tag-cleaning","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18754"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31831,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754\/revisions\/31831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}