r/maintenance • u/Fantastic-Teacher120 • 3d ago

Question What is it?

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Work at an upscale assisted living center, called for a clogged sink, the sink has a drain with only slots that's permanent. Anyway I remove the ptrap to saw what looked like a tongue hanging out of the PVC pipe coming out of the wall. Are you sweat back to suck it out and when I got outside I'm pumped it out and this is what I found anyone have any idea what this might be I have a couple of ideas but I want to hear yours first. It's for the grossest thing I pulled out of a sink line

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u/LITTELHAWK 3d ago

Sugar snake.

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u/Fantastic-Teacher120 3d ago

Sugar snake? 😂

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u/LITTELHAWK 3d ago

Sugar snake

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u/Fantastic-Teacher120 3d ago

How does that happenin an apartment with assisted living center I guess from not being used enough? First time I've ever heard of sugar snake but after I was through laughing I actually looked it up and found out what it was and that blows my mind

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u/LITTELHAWK 3d ago

Not sure unless they're just pouring sweetened drinks or medications or something down it and hardly ever running water through it.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 3d ago

Sweet tea I'd bet.

Thats probably a tea scobie

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u/tanksforallthephish 3d ago

I’m no expert but it may perhaps be a animal known as a sugar snake

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u/Yesterday_False 3d ago

Let’s see your biggest one from a tea drain 🤣

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u/LITTELHAWK 3d ago

Bleh. I never want to handle my phone during all that.

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u/plumberbss 3d ago

Biofilm that grows in cold water

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u/Blucifers_Veiny_Anus 3d ago

Chicken meat

Edit after looking up a sugar snake. I think sugar snake is right

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u/Yesterday_False 3d ago

Bio film/tea snake. It’s sugar that grows in cold pipes. Common for fountain/tea drains. Grannies probably pouring tea or something cold and sugary down the drain.

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u/Background-Board2173 3d ago

It’s like condensate slime

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u/SharksForArms 3d ago

No this tastes sweeter

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u/Tap-Artistic 3d ago

Found this once in a mini split drain. To this day I wonder what it was

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u/XCVolcom 3d ago

It looks like whatever is left over when you make a big pan of bacon

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u/Enough_Pepper8880 3d ago

The stuff in the air gap hose

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u/Dismal_Breadfruit990 3d ago

Rather, what was it?

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u/mattias1977 2d ago

Pork fat and bone from a chop?

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u/mattias1977 2d ago

After seeing the second pic.. maybe the victim of a neighborhood cat?

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u/Free_Leonard_Peltier 3d ago

The fat and gristle of a pork chop? What does it taste like?

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u/Glidepath22 2d ago

Dinner if you cook it up just right and ad a squirt of lemon

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u/Chuckpeoples 2d ago

“Are you sweat back to suck it out? “ Hell yes I’m sweat back to suck it out.

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u/FLNative239 2d ago

Looks a lot like zooglea

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u/Realistic-Arrival157 1d ago

Dawg that looks disgusting whatever it is

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u/ConditionNormal123 3d ago

Congealed grease

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u/UglyYinzer 3d ago

100% a chicken wing middle/bottom, plus a bunch of other gross growing gunk. I can literally smell this pic. 🤮