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 There are questions that your rental store associate will ask to make sure you get the right snake for your specific problem.

1. Location of Problem
2. Size of Pipe At Site
3. Approximately Length To Main Line

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With hand snakes, these are rotated using a handle to move the snake down a drain or pipe.  For example, a toilet snake is only for the toilet unit itself.  If you break the toilet off its wax seal, you normally expose a 3 inch pipe.  You would use a medium snake to access this line.

Power Snakes are an electric motor that rotates the cage of the snake.  You still have to feed it into a pipe to the obstruction, and move it in and out until it clears the backup.

Pictures of hand and power snakes can be found under this category.

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