Permaflow P-trap: Clear solution to clogged drains

At least once a year, the sink drain in my bathroom develops a severe case of the slows. There's no mystery why this happens. My wife and two daughters use the sink and and the surrounding area daily for all their grooming needs, and that means the sink drain is constantly swallowing large doses of loose hair (and who knows what else) that never quite make it past the P-trap. As the lone male in the house, I have the fun job of taking apart the drain and unclogging the trap, despite my negligible follicular contributions.

Inevitably, I spend the better part of an hour taking the trap apart, dredging out a gray, unappetizing mat of stinking glop, and putting everything back together and cleaning up.
Help may have arrived. The Permaflow replaces standard P traps with a transparent P that can be cleaned without being removed. The secret is its little internal paddle, which when turned with an external wheel scoops out clogs and debris and sends them down the drain in kitchens and bathrooms. So there's never any need for noxious hair-dissolving chemicals.

Likewise, if something valuable falls into the Permaflow, the paddle can lift it up so it can easily be fished out the way it came in. This is easy to do because the Permaflow is made of clear ABS,  a substance long used in drain pipes, but only recently available in see-through. Clear means its also easy to see when stuff is building up and when it's time to give the wheel a little twist. And even if you forget to turn the wheel, the drain has a bypass feature so water continues flowing.

Quite a bit of impressive engineering  went into making this $40 device. It's easily retrofitted to existing plumbing. It's shaped to increase turbulence so water does the work of dislodging. And it's IAPMO tested and Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) certified to meet IPC and IRC standards. (Now that's reassuring.)

Once I've installed a Permaflow in my bathroom, I should be able to make short work of any hair-induced blockages. Better yet, I'll show the girls how to turn the wheel and unclog it themselves.