kitchen sink clogged & bathroom faucet leaking

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Followed directions on the bottle and poured drain opener down the kitchen sink. Did not work. (I was afraid that the sink would explode or the house would burn down, or something drastic would happen. Sometimes when you try to fix something, you unintentionally make it worse, instead of better.) Considering getting a *drain snake*, but afraid that I will do something wrong and make the problem worse. Maybe I could just waste time, energy and cash and call a plumber.

Bathroom faucet leaking when the faucet is in a certain position. It does not appear to be leaking when it in a different position.

If I lived in an apartment, maintenance would fix it.
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Some articles claim that Home Depot is doing random massive layoffs. Do not know how credible they are. However, "at will" employer. Any old monkey could do my job. Zero job security. Zero job skills. If/when Home Depot has the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant, it might take a long time to get another job. And maybe will never get another job. Been applying to other jobs. Even Burger King and Subway did not respond (it's been over one month). Target and Food Maxx had the nerve to reject my worthless corpse.

Almost get hit by cars a couple times a day at work. (Parking lot attendant). Constantly tripping over garbage and almost falling. Suspicious looking characters lurking. Work is literally on the wrong side of the train tracks. Home Depot is so filthy. angry and annoying customers, coworkers, and day laborers.

My sister threatened to sell the house that I live in. If/when she does, I have to live somewhere else and pay rent. Do not earn enough to pay rent. Where I live, you have to work two full time minimum wage jobs to pay for rent, utilities, and groceries. And that says nothing about cars, tuition, or anything else.

Government benefits not guaranteed, sufficient, or permanent.

Plenty of people earn minimum wage, not just me. Some of them pay rent, kids, and cars. How do they do it?

I'm constantly worried about $$$. But plenty of people earn the same amount as me, and they do not appear the slightest bit worried. My coworkers sometimes waste a lot of cash on Ubereats, drive expensive cars. Two coworkers each have five kids. They smoke cigarettes. They live large. Plenty of my coworkers only 18 and already have kids. I am 40 and zero kids.

besides, since coronavirus, costs skyrocketing. wages not increasing in proportion.
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Chronic constipation. Nutrition told me: pears, prunes, okra, blueberries. Blueberries yesterday good. For the first time for over three and a half years, ate a Bartlett pear. Used to eat them all the time. Way too sweet. Had to force it down. The prune juice bottle says 24 grams of sugar per 200 calories (1 serving). way too much. a Kit Kat: 200 calories and 21 grams of sugar.

Today, six slices Artisan bread, 4 pieces chicken, 2 frozen bananas, 1 serving asparagus. (liquid bowel movement).
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off leash dogs scare me
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emotional overeating

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nothing to look forward to

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unfulfilled potential

zero "friends"

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There is really no point in continuing to live:

autism (social, and many things are way too loud)
not cisgender (even after 6 years testosterone, getting called "ma'am" on the phone)
financial insecurity
medical (itching, constipation)
clinical depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and et cetera

not good at anything. not interested in anything. dissociated and surreal.

exhausted all the time
precious lil "people" talk way too f*****g much. then they act like they are being nice and polite when they are just getting in the way.

Everything I attempt is like "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear".

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My whole "life" is like "there's a hole in the bucket, dear liza dear liza."

for example, last week, @ least 2 off leash dogs in the parking lot @ work. i am afraid of dogs. there was nobody to tattle to. in the past, the cops (the home depot that i work at has 2 cops on standby at all times) put the dogs in their car and drove the dogs to the homeless encampment. but there are holes in the fence between the homeless encampment and home depot.

I use a drain snake about once a year as my long hair clogs the pipes. I go down to the basement so I can take apart the pipes with a wrench to more easily insert the snake.

You don't want drain cleaner in your eyes so I'd wear eye protection if you decide to use a snake. Wear plastic safety goggles.

I got one of these for keeping hair out of the shower drain.

(Styles vary):





There are also little snakes you can get, that are just a foot or two long and plastic.

Might have been better to first try using a sink plunger on the clogged sink. Drain cleaner isn't likely to blow up, but if the sink is very clogged then it might not clear the block, so them you'd have another problem - corrosive chemicals in the waste pipe that can't be rinsed out. So using the plunger might partly free things up and allow you to use the drain cleaner without just creating a corrosive mess.

As for taps, I used to be fairly confident about fixing those, but something's gone wrong. Last time I tried, I couldn't get the tap dismantled (it was rather an old tap) and I ended up destroying the handle. Mind you, even the plumber I then hired didn't try to fix it, he just replaced both taps, so maybe it wasn't my competence that was the problem. It's getting harder to buy the spare washers now that the shops in town are all closing down.

Look under the sink. There should be a pipe coming down below the drain. That pipe might go into a "U" shaped pipe such that water draining down from the sink has to briefly go up again and then down into the pipe that takes the dirty water away from the kitchen. If there is a "U" shaped pipe that is the "trap"; a pool of water sits in the bottom of the trap to prevent stinky fumes coming up from the septic system.

The clog might be in the trap.

There should be some huge nuts on both exits from the trap. If you unscrew them you can clear anything in the trap and then screw the trap back into position. Screw it tightly enough to be water-tight but not so firmly you damage things.

Be careful!! That drain cleaner-stuff you poured down the drain might be in there. You don't want to splash it around the kitchen and certainly don't want to, for instance, splash it into your face.

If the clog was not in the trap then, oh well, might be time for a plumber.

Double retired

Thank you very much for your advice

I have never fixed anything before and a clogged sink is too dangerous and difficult to be the first thing I try to fix

Scheduled roto rooter for today. No clue how much it costs. I only earn minimum wage, but whatever. If drain opener got in my eyes I could go blind. Then I would not be able to work my dumpsterfire "job" and I might not qualify for government benefits

There is something seriously wrong with everything

My worthless corpse is a disaster waiting to keep happening

Home Depot is also a disaster waiting to keep happening

Every slightest thing, I feel totally overwhelmed and failed to cope

40 years old and I can't do the slightest thing for myself

I am so pathetic

Sometimes I wonder how it is possible that I am still alive

Constantly struggling financially emotionally and physically and mentally

Exhausted all the time

Exhausted all the resources

Whoever you hire to work on the sink, warn them that you poured some drain cleaner in it.

They won't want it splashing into their eyes, either.

Good luck.

double retired

i told the plumber about the drain cleaner.

the plumber is currently trying to unclog the sink.

thank you very much for your advice.

I put a bucket under bathroom faucet and remove the pipe. Then I run the water straight to the bucket. But in my situation, it's a build up of oxidized iron. It's just now clearing up.

Anakili

The plumbers (plural) had to use a drain auger. Even though I work at home Depot and got trained in Backup Tool Rental and watched a video about drain augers, did not feel confident or comfortable unclogging the sink myself. Rescue Rooter did it for $600. But I should have gotten quotes from other companies. $600 sounds like a ripoff. They offered $700 to fix the litterbox leaky faucet but I did not accept. That sounds too expensive.

Lots of people can't do that either. I see trucks like that parked in my neighbor's driveways all the time.
I consider myself lucky to be able to fix stuff and save a ton of money.

I used to buy new tools to fix stuff. I saved money fixing it myself even with the new tools!

Yesterday I fixed the door handles on the refrigerator for $20.
Later that night I celebrated by buying a summer party dress on ebay for $30 as the seller offered me a 25% discount.
$50 is a lot less than having someone else fix it!