{ "id": "flexible-drain-brush-155cm", "sku": "flexible-drain-brush-155cm", "title": "155cm Flexible Drain Cleaning Brush", "slug": "flexible-drain-brush-155cm", "price": 9.99, "currency": "GBP", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "drain-cleaning-brushes", "category_label": "Drain Rods, Brushes & Jetter Hoses", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "60 g", "images": [ "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/main-flexible-drain-brush-155cm.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/flexible-drain-brush-155cm-2.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/flexible-drain-brush-155cm-3.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/flexible-drain-brush-155cm-4.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/flexible-drain-brush-155cm-5.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/drain-cleaning-brushes/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/flexible-drain-brush-155cm-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "A stainless steel core bends through curved pipework while soft nylon bristles scrub away hair, soap scum and grease without scratching.", "description": "The problem nobody wants to deal with\n\nA slow drain starts quietly. Water takes a second longer to disappear. Then two seconds. Then you are standing in an inch of grey water while you shower, and there is a faint smell around the basin that no amount of bleach seems to fix.\n\nNine times out of ten, the cause is not deep in the sewer. It is sitting within the first metre or so of pipe, right where the plughole narrows into the trap. Hair wraps itself around the crosspiece or the stopper stem. Soap, shampoo and skin oils stick to the hair. In a kitchen, cooking fat cools and clings to the pipe wall, and everything else sticks to that. The channel gets narrower and narrower until the water can barely get through.\n\nThe frustrating part is reach. You can see the top of the mess, maybe hook out a bit with your fingers, but the rest is beyond you. Straight tools jam at the bend. Wire hooks scratch chrome. Chemical cleaners dissolve some of it but leave the rest, and in a few weeks you are back to the same puddle.\n\nHow a flexible drain brush fixes it\n\nA flexible drain brush solves two problems at once. It is long, and it bends.\n\nThis one has a 155cm working length on a stainless steel shaft, with a nylon bristle head measuring roughly 5cm long by 1cm across. The whole tool is 60 grams, so it feels like nothing in your hand.\n\nThe steel shaft is the clever bit. It is stiff enough to push, which is what you need to make progress, but it flexes when it meets a turn. The brush is designed to travel through curved pipes and tubes angled at less than 90 degrees, which covers the trap under most basins and the elbows under most showers. Instead of stopping at the first bend, it follows the pipe.\n\nThe bristles do the actual cleaning. Because they sit all the way around the head, rotating the shaft sweeps the full circumference of the pipe. That is a very different result from pushing a hook through the middle of a blockage. A hook makes a hole and the water drains for a week. A brush scrubs the wall and brings the material back out with it.\n\nNylon matters too. Metal scrapers can score plastic waste pipe and leave marks on polished fittings around the plughole, and once a surface is scratched it collects gunk faster. Soft bristles on a rounded head clean properly without that trade-off.\n\nWho it suits\n\nIf anyone in your household has long hair, you will use this constantly. Bathroom basins and shower drains are where it earns its keep fastest.\n\nIt also suits anyone who would rather not pour strong chemicals down the pipe every month. Caustic drain products work, but they are unpleasant to handle, they are not ideal for older pipework, and they are a poor match for septic systems. Mechanical cleaning removes the material instead of dissolving part of it.\n\nRenters like it because it needs no tools, no disassembly and no landlord conversation. You do not have to take the trap apart or lie on your back under the sink with a bucket.\n\nAnd it is genuinely handy beyond drains. The same long, slim, bendy profile cleans hydration bladder tubes, CPAP hoses, long-neck bottles, coffee machine lines, aquarium tubing and appliance outlet hoses. Anything narrow that you cannot see into is fair game. People often buy it as the best flexible pipe brush for drains and end up using it on half a dozen other things.\n\nHow to use it properly\n\nStart dry. Lift out the stopper or grate if yours comes out, and pull away any hair you can reach by hand. Get the easy part out of the way first.\n\nFeed the brush in slowly. Do not shove. Let the tip find its own way, and when you feel resistance, twist the shaft between your fingers rather than pushing harder. That rotation is what gets the head around a bend.\n\nOnce you are past the trap, work the brush back and forth over a short range, turning as you go. You are scrubbing, not drilling. After ten or fifteen seconds, draw it out slowly and see what comes with it. It will not be pretty. That is the point.\n\nRun hot water down the drain, then repeat. Two or three passes usually makes a visible difference to how fast the sink empties. In a kitchen, running hot water while you brush helps soften the grease so the bristles can lift it.\n\nWhen you are done, rinse the brush under the tap and work a little dish soap through the bristles before the residue dries on.\n\nChoosing the right drain brush\n\nLength is the first thing to check. Short brushes around 50cm will reach the trap but not much past it. A 155cm shaft gets well beyond that into the straight run where material also settles.\n\nHead diameter is the second. At 1cm, this head enters narrow plugholes and overflow channels while still making contact with the wall of a standard waste pipe. A much wider head cleans a wide pipe faster but will not fit a slim opening, and a much thinner one barely touches the sides.\n\nShaft material decides how long it lasts. Stainless steel resists rust, which matters for a tool that lives wet. Plastic-coated wire tends to kink and stay kinked.\n\nFinally, think about bristle type. Nylon is the sensible default for household pipes. Metal bristles clean aggressively but are not something you want anywhere near a visible chrome fitting.\n\nKeeping it in good shape\n\nCare is simple. Rinse after every use, soap the bristles, shake the water out and let it dry fully before storing. A damp brush shoved straight into a cupboard will start to smell, which rather defeats the purpose.\n\nStore it straight or in a loose coil. A thin steel shaft will take a gentle curve forever, but repeated sharp kinks in the same place weaken any metal.\n\nMany households keep two, one for the kitchen and one for the bathroom, so they never cross over. At this price that is an easy call.\n\nA quick note on prevention: a cheap mesh strainer over each plughole catches most hair before it ever gets into the pipe. Pair one with the brush and your monthly clean becomes a thirty-second job.\n\nThe short version\n\nSlow drains are almost always a build-up of hair, soap and grease sitting just past where you can reach. A 155cm flexible drain brush with a stainless steel shaft and nylon bristles gets to it, scrubs the pipe wall properly, and pulls the mess out instead of pushing a hole through it.\n\nIt bends around curves, it will not scratch your fittings, it weighs 60 grams, and it works just as well on bottles, hoses and tubing. Use it once a month and you may never think about your drains again.", "llm_summary": "The LiteTour flexible drain brush is a single long-handled cleaning brush measuring 5 x 1 x 160 cm overall, with a stated 155cm working length and a bristle head of about 5cm long by 1cm diameter. The handle or shaft is stainless steel and the bristles are nylon. It weighs 60 grams, is white, round in shape, described as hard and flexible, and is intended for drainage and pipe surfaces. The manufacturer is listed as Lejie and the country of origin is China. The flexible shaft is designed to pass through curved pipes angled at less than 90 degrees. Colour options, specific material blend details, GTIN, MPN and warranty terms are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "14-day right to cancel from delivery under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, buyer pays return postage; the refund may be reduced if the item has been used beyond normal handling; Consumer Rights Act 2015 rights for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "EzyDrains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/", "canonical_url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/flexible-drain-brush-155cm/", "json_url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/api/products/flexible-drain-brush-155cm.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }