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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few home issues cause stress quite as fast as a toilet that won’t flush properly. All those anxiety-provoking questions began to ...

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Learning to use a plunger isn’t usually high on anyone’s priority list, but maybe it should be. You can easily make a clogged toilet worse if you don’t know how to use a plunger correctly. Experts at ...

For all the glowing up that happens in front of your bathroom mirror, figuring out how to unclog a bathroom sink can get ugly quick. Your sink catches loose hair and soap scum so you can face the day ...

One preventative step: Have a camera inspection done inside of a sewer line, and for that— get a plumber. Otherwise, a homeowner may not know whether something is headed toward a blockage, which could ...

Plumber or plunger? The inevitable question when something’s clogged, leaks, breaks or in efforts to do preventative maintenance is: What do we do ourselves, and what’s best left to a professional?

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I've never had the misfortune of needing to unclog a toilet, which means I've also never had to use a plunger. Through college dorms and several apartments (some of those were even prewar buildings), ...