A slow sink is a warning; a blocked one is the same problem two weeks later. Kitchen blockages are usually fat and food residue, bathroom ones are hair and soap. Both clear quickly with the right tool — and neither is improved by pouring chemicals down the pipe.
1. Empty the standing water, then work a cup plunger properly — seal the overflow with a wet cloth first. 2. Place a bucket under the trap, unscrew it, and clean it out. This alone solves a large share of kitchen blockages. 3. Flush with hot (not boiling) water afterwards. Avoid caustic drain products, especially repeatedly: they sit on top of the blockage, damage seals and older pipework, and make the eventual mechanical work more unpleasant for everyone.
Call a plumber when several fittings back up at once, when water rises in another appliance while the washing machine drains, or when the blockage returns within days of being cleared. Those symptoms point further down the branch — or at the stack shared with the flat above.
Mechanical clearing first: rods or a drum machine sized for the pipe, so the blockage is removed rather than pushed along. For grease-lined kitchen waste we use high-pressure jetting where the pipework allows it, which restores the full diameter instead of poking a hole through the middle. If the same point blocks repeatedly, a camera inspection tells you whether the cause is a defect — a sagging section, a badly angled joint or a damaged pipe — instead of your cooking habits.
Cooking fat into a container, a simple strainer over the plughole, and a monthly flush of very hot water prevent most of what we are called out for. In shared buildings, mention repeated backflow to the syndic early — it is often a communal stack issue.
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