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  • 2020-12-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Do Plumbers Advise to 'Pour Salt Down Your Drain at Night'? (en)
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  • What are those online advertisements all about that say to pour salt down your drain tonight? We previously reported about ads that hinted at the effectiveness of pouring dish soap in toilets, tubs, and sinks. Dish soap, along with water heated to a low to medium temperature, can potentially help remove common and minor household clogs. Pour Salt Down Your Drain Tonight, Here's Why was the text in an advertisement in December 2020, although it perhaps had first been displayed long before. Readers who clicked the advertisement were led to a 31-page slideshow story at the website The Delite. That story did not feature the same picture of salt being poured into a drain, nor did it include a tip about pouring salt down a drain at night, before bed. We looked into whether licensed plumbers recommended pouring salt down drains at night or at all. As we also mentioned in our dish soap story, it is potentially dangerous to pour boiling water into drains. Several Twitter users learned this the hard way. Red Lilly Plumbing published tips on unclogging drains, and the company's advice included mentions of salt. The Los Angeles-based licensed plumbers shared this helpful advice about the use of boiling water, vinegar, baking soda, and salt: Other licensed plumbers mentioned salt as well. Pittsburgh-based Terry's Plumbing advised using salt in a recipe for cleaning drains and letting it sit overnight. This was perhaps the sort of thing the online advertisement for The Delite was hinting at, even though it made no mention of this method in its 31-page story. The Roto-Rooter Plumbing company, which was founded in 1935, also published a YouTube video that showed salt can be effective in getting rid of drain flies: The video's description included more information: It's true that some licensed plumbers recommend salt as one of several ingredients that may help deal with clogs and drain flies. However, we were unable to find a consensus from professionals regarding pouring a little bit of salt down drains on a nightly basis, or on the regular in any way, as The Delite's advertisement appeared to be suggesting. Perhaps the best tip of all is to call a licensed plumbing company for advice. If you are a licensed professional and have feedback on this story, please let us know. (en)
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