How to Retrieve a Lost Ring from Your Sink Drain

How to Retrieve an Object from Your Sink Drain

Shana Dines
Have you ever dropped something down the sink drain and feel like it is hopelessly lost?

According to familyhack.com you can easily retrieve it without calling a plumber. Calling a plumber can be very expensive and you will feel like an idiot if you later find out about this trick. Have you ever lost a ring or a shampoo lid down your sink drain?

I have found myself in this situation before and was disgusted when I had to pay the high price to a plumber to retrieve a shampoo lid from my bathtub. I am pretty sure that this trick would have worked in that situation too.

We all know someone who has lost a wedding ring or diamond engagement ring down their kitchen or bathroom sink drain. It is a really hopeless feeling when this happens. You know that your ring is caught in the elbow of your drain pipe or worse sinking to the bottom of your septic tank. You may be lucky and can retrieve it by taking your pipe apart. How much easier it would be to have known the familyhack guy's easy trick.

How to retrieve your wedding ring from your sink drain.

Family hack guy has a sense of humor. You will definitely want to see this video. Don't try to use a regular vacuum cleaner or you may shock or electrocute yourself. You only need a shopvac, and a pair of panty hose. He said to use your wife or girlfriend's pantyhose or if you are a transvestite you might want to use something in red.

Family hack guy's daughter dropped a lid down their bathroom sink drain. He does a demonstration on how to retrieve the lid from the drain. Take the pantyhose and place over the end of the shopvac wand. Place the wand over the sink drain hole and turn it on. Simplistic enough the ring magically appears on the end of the wand protected by the pantyhose. You don't have to search through your shopvac to retrieve your ring.

Run cold water through the drain afterwares so sewer gas doesn't come belching up through the drain after sucking your valuable object up. So simple and easy that you would think that you would have thought this trick up by yourself. Check out this web site for this and more valuable tricks.

You want to do this immediately otherwise your ring may get washed the rest of the way down the drain.

Published by Shana Dines

Shana is an award winning artist. Her specialty is pastel portraits and watercolors. She has illustrated a children's book and has written and illustrated one now in publishing. She is a Christian but believ...  View profile

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  • We have all stared helplessly at a ring going down a sink drain.
Many people pay a lot of money for services that they could do themselves, if they only knew these secret tips.

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  • Crystal Ray1/3/2010

    I'm afraid this will happen to me if I don't buy drain stoppers for the bathrooms. For some strange reason the landlord must not think they're necessary. I can imagine this happening, and if it ever does I'll consult your info. Thanks!

  • Kristie Leong M.D.12/20/2009

    What great information to know. I know this will come in handy sometime. :-)

  • JerseyNana12/17/2009

    Been there, done that! Thanks, Shana!

  • Nancy V Canfield12/16/2009

    Now THIS is useful information!

  • Carol Roach12/16/2009

    good tips thanks

  • J. E. Davidson12/16/2009

    We've used our shop vac to unclog the bathroom sink, too!

  • Jennifer Bove12/15/2009

    had to come back and say checked out the site, it was great!loved his sense of humor!

  • Jennifer Bove12/15/2009

    good article, thanks for sharing the tip!

  • Lori Voth12/15/2009

    great idea.

  • Linda Louise Johnson12/15/2009

    That is really good! Thanks -- going to look at this guy's stuff!

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