Nirox Plumbers Snake 7.6m x 6mm - Pipe Cleaning Spiral Tool (1.1cm) extendable - Plumbing Snake Ideal for Removing Hair from drains - Drain Auger

Excellent product. Used this drain snake to clear the bathroom sink blockage. It took 5 mins and the job is done, blockage is cleared. Never use unblock gel or harmful liquids, it can damage the piplines. There is no manual to read or how to use, but there are diagrams on the box that serves as a manual.Tips - I would recommend to remove the S-Trap on the sink if possible thus you will have a big opening for inserting the steel wire and try to insert the steel wire slowly small by small so that it is easy to handle and not damaging the pipeline. If you find the steel wire stuck inside, it may be due to a bend or very bad clog. In that case you should tighten the screw and rotate the steel wire using the lever. Rotating the lever will help to remove the clog or easy inserting through the bend. Do not pull the steel wire very hard, take it slowly and rotating the lever anti-clockwise will help to bring all the steel wire back in place. Hope this helps.

It's OK

This drain cleaner tool seems of good quality I think, the only trouble and my own fault - the initial coil is too wide to fit through plug hole. Therefore I cannot comment on if it worked. Sadly returning it and will have to find a narrower tool. Also weird that the box was unwrapped and the Amazon delivery sticker was stuck over the instructions which are on the outside of the product box which I then had to try to peel off. No instructions inside at all.

I might be doing something wrong but the one I received is rubbish. It does not wind back in, hard to understand if it’s faulty or I just don’t get how to use it properly. I assumed the idea of it was to feed the ‘wire’ down and there’d be a way to add tension to the coil. I just get a long flacid wire that would just bunch up if it hit anything, then I have no way to reel it back in as the turning thing does nothing.

This is great. I bought it due to slow running water in my shower drain but it’s so simple to use that I now routinely use it in all my sinks too.Once you learn what to do it works like a dream. By locking the ‘snake’ in place - once extended - and turning the handle, the clever bit on the end really shifts blockages or pulls them back when you pull back the - very long - snake into its holder.Only today I removed an accumulated clog the size of a potato (ugh!!) that I didn’t even know was in my pipework!!Highly recommended.

Struggled to find a viable alternative to the basic plungers, this thing goes every which way, mega useful and easy to use.

I found that the 'snake' will still rotate within the target pipe even when it has to go around a couple of bends and is extended to its full length. I fed it carefully into the pipe and rotated copiously - I imagine that used clumsily it would twist up on itself and become damaged. But as I say it did what I needed very well.It's most convenient that the 'snake' disappears into its housing, so storage is easy. A good tool.

Needed for gutter drain ,didn’t do anything