Fly Tying Furs

What happens if a slow drain sits untreated for a month?

Whatever narrowed the pipe doesn’t hold still. Grease keeps cooling and layering onto grease. Hair keeps knitting into soap scum. Roots that found a hairline crack keep drinking and growing. A blockage that started as a coating on the pipe wall becomes a plug, and the drain that was slow becomes a drain that stands full. Give it a month of daily use and the margin you had at the start is gone.

Could a small clog actually make you sick?

It can. Sewer gas seeping back through a dry or compromised trap carries hydrogen sulfide and methane — unpleasant at low levels, genuinely hazardous at higher ones. Standing gray water grows bacteria. And once a backup wets porous materials, mold can take hold within a day or two, which matters for anyone in the home with asthma or allergies.