How do you unblock a sink organically?

Answer 1

coathanger (metal). Untwist it, and shove an end down, you'll dislodge the clog.

Please be careful, watch the free end and dont stab yourself with it.

A coathanger might work, but it might be worth going to a hardware store and investing a few dollars in a plumber's snake. They can reach clogs dozens of feet down the pipe as opposed to the couple of feet you'll get from a coathanger. They also go through bends in the pipe rather better, and the "free end" is usually a combination storage unit and crank, so you don't need to worry about poking your eye out with it.

Depends on the "sink" stoppage you want to clear

Using a coat hanger is an amazing way to punch a hole through the 17 -22 Ga tubing and J bend traps plus it is so stiff it will not pass the 90 deg fitting inside the wall

Also snaking (rodding) is useless for soft stoppages grease ,soap film build up etc. for these types of stoppages a water Jet is ideal

For tubs , showers ,basins a 1/8 -1/4 snake wire is the way to go

Wire hangers were used for do it yourself abortions , trying to get into a locked car, GREAT for welding using oxyacetylene on steel and removing a bath tub stopper that the link broke off BUT not for drain cleaning

I would strongly suggest before taking advice ask if the advice knowns anything about the trade /profession they are spewing advice about

- The new coat hangers of today, have no strength, and are quite flexiable compared to the coat hangers of the past. However, if your coat hanger punches thru the tubing, then it had erroded to where it needed to be replaced or you used one of the old stronger coathangers. (Using a water jet on a pipe that would punch thru with a new coathanger, will suffer the same consequence with a water jet). You have to use the "new" coathangers gently because you dont want to break off a piece in the pipe, as this will likely cause you more problems.

fyi: I do have the snakes, yet, I prefer the coat hanger. The clog of a kitchen sink has always been (in my case), within the length of a coat hanger. I'd also never stick one in that looks like it's about to break. For the record, I have worked in Plumbing...But, it sounds like the guy above wants you to call him, since it's unlikely you'll have the tool that he's recomending.