I got a small bowl stuck in my sink opening it is so tight and can't even get a screwdriver to try and pry it

Question

Can anyone help figure out a way to get it out? now the sink has water in it and I can't believe it fit right into the sink hole! Help??????

Answer 1

Put a bucket under the P trap under the sink and take the P trap off entirely.  Then take a long thing - a dowel or an opened metal clothes hanger and poke upward until you loosen the bowl above.

Answer 2

Easy.

Get a sink plunger that is larger than the bowl (we're talking something smaller than a rice bowl, right). Place it over the bowl and press it down but make sure that there is no seal so the air can get out. When you have it down as much as you can make the seal, run some water in to the sink, a 1/2 inch maybe, then pull up with the plunger. This will create a vacuum which will pop the bowl out in double time.

Else, just go underneath, remove the drain pipe, and poke the bowl up from underneath (prepare to get dirty and wet).

Answer 3

Unscrew the drain in the elbow and use some sort of rod to puxh the bowl up and out.

Answer 4

A small funnel taped to the end of a vacuum cleaner may work. Of course, make sure everything is dry first.

If that doesn't work, a tank of compressed air with other openings sealed off might, but wear safety gear and try to keep the bowl from knocking a hole in the ceiling with an old towel, pillow, or blanket thrown over the sink.

Answer 5

Try using a paring knife with a very thin blade to get in around the edge of the bowl to pry it out.  I've used this many times to get lids of gallon milk containers out of my sink drains.  The other thing I would say to try is ice cubes.  If your dish is not glass and is in the sink drain the direction it would sit on a table I suggest that you fill it with ice to see if it will shrink(I can't think of the proper term for what it will do) away from the side of the sink drain and you would be able to pop it out then.

Answer 6

What a predicament!

Try to dip the sink empty, then put ice in the bowl. Perhaps that will make it shrink just enough that you can nudge it up and get it out.

Good luck!

Answer 7

Use a plunger.

Answer 8

Break the bowl.

Answer 9

have you try to put soap in it!

maybe take all the water out, with another bowl and let dry out!

good luck!

Answer 10

remove the u-shaped trap under the sinks and poke a wooden spoon up through the drain. Be sure and place a bowl under the trap before loosening to catch any trapped water.

Answer 11

try a small suction up,   you may have to remove some of the water.

Answer 12

Well just get a hammer and smash the bowl. Don't open up the pipes or anything. Simply bash it into pieces.