Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I moved into an old apartment with a slow-draining tub. I tried all kinds of liquid drain cleaners, including the one that comes with the long, plastic strip that is supposed to fish out hair and clogs -- nothing worked. 10 minutes of working with this tool, though, and now my tub drains just as well as if it were brand new. It easily saved me $80-100 on calling the landlord or a plumber! One small problem, however, is that there are absolutely no instructions included. Not being a plumber myself, I turned to YouTube and found a few very easy to follow tutorials. The basics though are this: 1. Run some hot water 2. For a tub, remove the overflow cap (where water is supposed to go in to prevent you from over-filling the tub) 3. Loosen the screw on this tool that is holding the springy wire in place, then pull out a foot or so of the wire and insert in your tub's overflow hole 4. Keep extending the springy wire and inserting it into the tub's overflow drain until you hit something and can't easily continue feeding the wire. 5. At that point, tighten the screw so that the springy wire can't move around much, grab onto the handle with one hand and use the other hand to spin the canister around. The springy wire will twist around in your pipes and clear the clog. 6. You're not done yet though. Loosen the screw again and continue feeding the wire into the drain hole further, tightening the screw when you hit places that stop you and spinning the canister / drum. I also ran some hot water every once in a while to flush out whatever I cleared up. 7. Turn on the hot water and let that run over the springy wire as you pull it back out (to rinse it off). Be sure to let the wire dry out before feeding it back into the canister for storage. Tip: I found sometimes that after spinning the canister around, the wire felt 'stuck' in the drain (I couldn't push it in further or pull it out). So far, every time that's happened, simply spinning the canister in the opposite direction a few turns has freed up the wire.