I brought a new man home tonight (Mr Muscle Sink and Plughole Unblocker)

Member Name: scuba_angel

Product:	Mr Muscle Sink and Plughole Unblocker
Date:	26/08/07 (540 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: does exactly what it says

Disadvantages: none

This is somewhat of a departure from my usual reviews since I believe it is my first on a household product, and anyone who has read any of my previous reviews may well have worked out that I am far from domesticated and plan on remaining so for sometime to come.

But occasionally I am spurred in to taking action around the house and this morning was one of those occasions. While in my shower before work I realised that the bath was almost full to my ankles. Not so odd really since on more than one occasion recently I've left the plug in or been stood over the plug hole (please tell me I'm not the only one to be so dozy at 5.30am!) but on this occasion sadly the water I was paddling in was not to be so easily drained.

Somehow the plug has become totally blocked up. Annoying and probably very unhygienic. So on my way home from work this evening I stopped in at my local Asda to try and find something to unblock it, now usually I would use a delapidatory cream since most of the blockage is likely to be hair, one of the perils of having two long haired females in a house, as well as one who has suddenly realised she has less than a week to deal with the forest which has sprouted on her legs (yup its only a few days until my OH comes back and you could almost plait my leg hair!). But when in Asda I thought that maybe for once I should check the prices of the delapidatory cream compared to a product actually designed to unblock plugs. To my surprise this was actually cheaper by almost 50p, costing me around £3.20.

So having returned home the directions on the back tell me to pour the whole bottle in to the bath and then rinse in about 15 minutes, given that this is a pretty bad blockage I actually only poured around 1/3 of the bottle down the plug, and most of it sat in the bath itself. I also left it for closer to an hour. By which time the liquid seemed to be just about gone from the bath, running the taps initially it looked as though more product would be needed as the water once again was just sitting there looking scummy. But then there were a few bubbles and the water began to slowly drain away. Once the first lot of water was fully drained I ran the taps again to ascertain whether further pourings would be needed, again in bubbled slightly and then the water just disappeared down the drain as though the blockage had never been there!

The smell is slightly bleachey but not over poweringly so, and it is a fairly thick 'gloopy' liquid. As I mentioned I didnt use the recommended amount since it says you should use the whole bottle for one blockage but to me that is a ridiculously expensive way to clear a block, though equally if it is likely to be a hair blockage a cream like VEET should do the trick and is frequently cheaper (especially if you can find an own brand version). It is safe to use on almost all materials used in sinks, baths and plugs although there are one or two it might damage though it will not damage your actual plumbing system.

Its safe to say that this is something I would highly recommend keeping around the house, as with all cleaning products though it should be kept out of the way of children and animals (one and the same surely?). But it does have a 'child safe' cap, now I hear rumours that these are easy to open, yet every time I come across one I end up fighting with them for at least 5 minutes so also pretty adult safe. It also shouldnt be allowed to touch bare skin and any clothes it comes in to contact with are likely to get bleached

Summary: his job is to clean my bath