Problem solved

Well, the handyman came by a little after 8pm last night to fix the tub.  First he plunged.  Then he used a small snake, which got bent.  Then he used a bigger snake that wouldn't fit in the bend of the P-trap.  Every time he came back into the apartment, it was a bigger, more powerful tool.  He said that Home Depot was the only place to have the right auger, and they were closed; he'd have to come back in the morning.  Then he comes back in with some of the most pungent, powerful stinky drain cleaner.  Which cleared the clog!  It stunk to high heaven, and we had to leave the bathroom door closed for about half an hour so we didn't pass out from the fumes, but the tub drains now!

So that means Odin will get his first bath with us!  And he is all kinds of wound up right now, so this should be fun.  Or terrifying.   I'm not sure which.

See, the design flaw with that drain is there is some plug/stopper thing that you can flip a switch with your toe to close or open.  But it gets filled up with hair easily.  So you take it out of the drain, which is hard because it has an o-ring in there to keep it in the tub.  Then you forget to put it back in because it's a pain to have to remove it after every shower.  Then the drain clogs up after a few months of that.  So we went to ACE Hardware and got a little mesh strainer that fits right in the drain, and is easily removed because there is no suction or anything that keeps it in place besides its weight.  Hopefully that will solve all our problems.

It was so nice to shower this morning and not be standing in five inches of water when I was done!

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