Silverhalo
April 29th, 2013, 10:19 PM
I have been using the little flat metal drain strainers that sit in the shallow opening at the top of the tub drain to catch my hair. I have to reach down several times each shower to scrape away the hair so that water can flow again, and still end up with a several-inch watery mess at the end of my shower. Since I wash with conditioner-only washes, my water can be topped with a creamy foam that I then have to spray out of the tub after I get out of the shower and the last of the hair is finally caught in the drain strainer.
That darn thing keeps my hair out of the drain, but lengthens my showering process by a good ten minutes with repeatedly removing the hair and waiting for the water to go down so that I can rinse the tub at the end of my shower!
Well, my laundry repairman was out the other day and he told me about a different method of catching washing machine lint. It is called the Lint Trapper. It is made in the US, sold by a small company in Minnesota. It is a tube about 6 inches long, made of hard plastic. The bottom is many, many slats or vanes. You shove this end into the drain hole. It fits drains 1.5 inches in diameter or larger. The slats or vanes continue upward for about 4 inches, then it becomes one solid plastic pipe. As long as your tub has an opening at least a quarter inch deep, I would guess, you can place this into the hole. Lint or hair tend to get sucked downward. They end up getting sucked against the vanes. But since the vanes go upward for 4 inches, there is no blocking of the drain, like there is with my little metal drain strainer. When I saw how well it worked in the laundry tub, I had to try it in the bath!
I used the lint trapper in my bathtub drain today and had NO water accumulate in the tub at all, and at the end of the shower I did not have a scum of conditioner floating on top of water accumulated in the tub that I had to later wash down. The hair I lost in the shower was all nicely wound around the Lint Trapper, and all I had to do was lift it out of the drain, roll the hair off and throw it in the waste basket, and put the Lint Trapper back in the drain. No having to peel shed hair from my fingers and stick it to the shower walls ( I did go back and read the thread on here about clogged drains), no having to stop mid-shower to clear the strainer. I bet there will be no need to go fishing down the drain to pull up hair clogs in the future, either.
Lowes and Home Depot apparently used to carry this item, but no longer do. I ordered mine online at the website at http://www.linttrapper.com/cart.php. I got three - one for the laundry, one for the bath, and one extra. I was so thrilled at how well it caught my hair that I had to come back to this community I had not visited in a long time to let all of you know how well it works. I have no connection to the company.
That darn thing keeps my hair out of the drain, but lengthens my showering process by a good ten minutes with repeatedly removing the hair and waiting for the water to go down so that I can rinse the tub at the end of my shower!
Well, my laundry repairman was out the other day and he told me about a different method of catching washing machine lint. It is called the Lint Trapper. It is made in the US, sold by a small company in Minnesota. It is a tube about 6 inches long, made of hard plastic. The bottom is many, many slats or vanes. You shove this end into the drain hole. It fits drains 1.5 inches in diameter or larger. The slats or vanes continue upward for about 4 inches, then it becomes one solid plastic pipe. As long as your tub has an opening at least a quarter inch deep, I would guess, you can place this into the hole. Lint or hair tend to get sucked downward. They end up getting sucked against the vanes. But since the vanes go upward for 4 inches, there is no blocking of the drain, like there is with my little metal drain strainer. When I saw how well it worked in the laundry tub, I had to try it in the bath!
I used the lint trapper in my bathtub drain today and had NO water accumulate in the tub at all, and at the end of the shower I did not have a scum of conditioner floating on top of water accumulated in the tub that I had to later wash down. The hair I lost in the shower was all nicely wound around the Lint Trapper, and all I had to do was lift it out of the drain, roll the hair off and throw it in the waste basket, and put the Lint Trapper back in the drain. No having to peel shed hair from my fingers and stick it to the shower walls ( I did go back and read the thread on here about clogged drains), no having to stop mid-shower to clear the strainer. I bet there will be no need to go fishing down the drain to pull up hair clogs in the future, either.
Lowes and Home Depot apparently used to carry this item, but no longer do. I ordered mine online at the website at http://www.linttrapper.com/cart.php. I got three - one for the laundry, one for the bath, and one extra. I was so thrilled at how well it caught my hair that I had to come back to this community I had not visited in a long time to let all of you know how well it works. I have no connection to the company.