How do I unclog my shower drain? (without calling a plummer)?

If it has a screw on drain cover, unscrew the screws and put them where they won't fall in and remove the drain cover. Then use a long screwdriver or other long item to break out any lime buildup and hair gunk. May be able to pull a lot of it up with a hooked wire. But a good drain cleaner usually will eat through any hair or soap build up.

Your shower drain is probably full of hair. Remove the top metal piece covering the drain pipe and send a small metal drain snake down the pipe to bring up the hair that is clogging the pipe

You need to run a tape down the drain. You probably have a hair build up. The trick is you take the screws out of the assembly that stops the water and pull that assembly out and run the tape through there. And then you carefully put the assembly back in and tighten the two screws and you are ready to go again. If that doesn't work, I call the plumber and he runs his stuff from the roof through all the pipes and they are unstopped for awhile. That isn't as expensive as it sounds. I have rental apartments and I have one that constantly catches hair in that assembly and I can clean that off when I pull it out and now I save $. Oops, the shower I refer to is in a tub so I'm taking out that stopper assembly out of the tub.

Since i can not see what the problem is i will need to give you an educational guess. I think you have hair build up in the drain. Take the strainer off if there is one and take a long 3 prong grabbers and reach down with those and remove the hair around the cross bars at the bottom of the drain. Should do the trick. If it is not hair and you can not see it. Then take a shop vac. And place it down the drain area and place a rag on the overflow pipe and suck the gunk out. Cheep fix and works every time.

this applies to the uk ...if your shower was fitted in last ten years then it should have a shower trap ...with this trap you do not need to get at it from below ...you unscrew the centre of the trap in the shower tray ..anti clockwise...remove centre ..clean out and replace ..the end

You can use a draino type drain cleaner .. but most SHOWER ONLY drains that are the newer type have a chrome cover grill that a screw driver will just pop off easy . then use a metal hanger or something like that ( a roll of solder works well ) twist around . Good luck !

Here is a link to an article on eHow. What I like about this article, they give you options like using baking soda and vinegar to unclog the drain before resorting to something more costly like buying a pipe snake or something more caustic like using Liquid Plumber.

you could use a plunger. also a really cheap solution, take baking soda, pour it around the drain.. and then pour vinegar on top of it. let it sit in the pipe/drain for about 10 minutes, and then follow up with some boiling water. try not to use a liquid drainer.. its really strong and if you use it too much it will start to eat away at your pipes. also its horrible for the environment.

Get material like paper clips (dont actually use paper clips or else it will take you forever) or those wire hangers. get those put them to gether and stick down the sink at an angle, when u have reached the clog push the wire in there and twist it til u got the clog good and pull out.