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Old lead Drum Trap - can I cut it out?
I live in a pretty old house, and we have just begun having problems with our bathtub draining. I've tried 4 or 5 different kinds of drain cleaners - including acid based ones, to no avail. Roto Rooter was out to fix my toilet a couple of days ago, and recommended that I remove the drum trap and just replace it with PVC Pipe - in order to have a straight shot from the tub, to the drainage pipe. I have a very crude drawing of what we're looking at here - but it should get the point across.
I was told that it is worthless to attempt to run a snake through this type of trap, because the water enters through the bottom and exits through the top - the snake would never get through the trap. I'm wanting to cut the trap out at the entrance pipe - and then pvc it together at the water pipe on the other side of the trap.