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Heard a plumber at the supply house say 'don't ever put Drano in a 50-year-old cast iron pipe'
I was picking up a toilet gasket and this old timer next to me was telling the counter guy about a house he got called to. Customer dumped Drano down a slow drain three times over a month. Pipe finally gave out and dumped sewage into their basement. He said the chemical eats the rust scale off the inside of cast iron and leaves the bare metal exposed. Then it just corrodes through. Has anyone else seen this happen or is this guy just being dramatic?
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fiona_johnson822mo ago
Maybe it's just me but I've used Drano and immediately regretted it like a bad tattoo.
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the_susan2mo ago
Three bags of Drano later and suddenly everyone's an expert on the quick fix that always backfires, just like my husband with cheap tools.
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