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jen · Kate Spade

Clogged pipes.

erin · Chanel

we were having a problem like this for awhile in our upstairs bathroom. i never called a plumber, because i'm pretty sure my husband was throwing soap shards down the drain when the bar got too small. do you shed a lot of hair? or shave your legs a lot? i think sometimes that can clog the drain...the upstairs bathroom seems to be fixed, but the downstairs one i know won't be...we were told when we looked at the house it had a "slow drain" and takes FOREVER. maybe you can tell your landlord since this has happened repeatedly, maybe they could get this looked into by a plumber?

wicked · Coach

Do you think the pipes might be frozen? Also fwiw I had a clogged shower(hair) and Draino didn't work at all, but then I used liquid plum-r and it worked like a charm.

Elle · Hermes

Has the landlord taken off the shower drain cover and manually cleared it? We've had to do that with the tub drain as well as the bathroom sink drain - apparently I shed more than your average sasquatch

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Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

Sometimes it helps to boil a lot of water and keep pouring it down the drain.

nicoley · Coach

Jen... Im so glad you posted this... Im having the EXACT same problem in my apt. with my shower drain. It is so annoying to be standing in a bath of water by the end of my shower... and I don't know what to do. Ive tried taking off the drain cover, but i can't figure out how to get it off. Err.... I feel your frustration.

sage · Dooney & Bourke

I have used the gel drain de-clogger, I think it is liquid plum-r. I used the whole bottle in the tub drain and left it for much longer than the bottle states. A couple of hours I think, and it worked really well.

boobaby · Kate Spade

I agree w/ Dizzy about the boiling water. I've lived in a lot of old apartment buildings, and the last one had a horrible clogging problem. I tried everything and finally I started boiling water and using that after the Draino.

Here's a gross story about plunging tubs. In one apartment I lived in, we always had drain problems. My next door neighbor plunged his tub, which worked great for him. Meanwhile, my tub filled up with like a foot of brown, putrid sludge. And my landlord didn't return my call for 2 days! Barf!