I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.
Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25’ snake. Giant PITA.
After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.
I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn’t work I’ll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.
Damn how much hair you losing in there. People shaving animals in your shower or what!!?
As a father of a girl who inherited my both curly and wavy hair that refuses to ever get a haircut, a hair trap in the shower is a godsend.
And cleaning it out is gross.
Yeah, I always glove up when I clean out the p-traps under the sinks. The smell is the worst part.
I mean if you think about it- there’s also pubes there.
Pubes are just different kind of body hair. No big deal.
When it’s your teenage daughter’s pubes, it’s a lot grosser.
I guess everyone gets wierded out by something else. Pubes of an offspring seem to me like a breath of fresh air after all the urine and poo and puking… well, puking may come again, but their babyhood prepares you for the things to come ;)
I think the part that stinks is all the dead skin sticking to the hair and all the skin oils and bacteria accumulating on that mass.
Oh probably, but it’s the pubes I think about.
I don’t like thinking about the fact that I’m having to clean up my kid’s pubes.
That sticky white mass is buckets of cum btw
I’m the only person in this house able to produce any amount of sticky white cum and that’s not where I produce it, so that would be quite surprising.
and like… worse.
I don’t want to think about what might be worse. We’re talking about my teenage daughter here. If it was just gross stuff coming off of me and my wife’s body…
Hair traps are how poachers catch wild toupees to sell on the bald market.
Word of warning: they tend to trap more than hair. If you have a teenage boy in the house you’ll find out real quick what I mean.
As a former teenage boy, sometimes it’s really just soap and soap scum and dirt and whatever else caught in the hair rather than anything else.
Also, for anyone caught in a sticky situation, cold water to keep the proteins from denaturing and getting sticky in the first place, and if all else fails use shampoo to try to emulsify it to stick to the water instead of the floor, to make little sewer babies with your neighbors.
