Its worth it to buy a plumbers snake

Now, if you plan on being sweating and soldering pipe there will be a few other things that you need to ensure you are ready for your plumbing projects. A soldering kit is a necessity. Make sure that it has a torch of course (propane gas works fine, but MAPP gas will help a lot if you are willing to spend a few extra dollars). In addition it needs to have solder (silver colored roll stock) and flux (it will be in a container that looks like lip gloss). Not normally included in these soldering kits is some industrial sandpaper or similar to rough up the copper piping for sweating. An adjustable wrench is nice to have for holding loose copper pipe you are sweating, but is not an absolute must.
If you add the above list of tools to your arsenal, you should be ready to handle all the basic plumbing problems that come your way. I personally keep them in a separate tool box in my basement so that I can go and grab them all at once when I know I am going to be working on plumbing.

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