Since I have a small bathroom in the basement below the tub, I've always figured that the tub's drain trap was located right above it. The problem was that the small bathroom has a plasterboard ceiling, so i thought it would need to be opened up to get to any of the plumbing. I also thought the slow drain might be due to the people that put up that ceiling pushing the drain pipes up a bit in order to get the ceiling up to the rafters, thus causing the water not to have enough pitch to drain properly. Well after a few minutes of Pete looking over the layout of the small bathroom, he asked me what was in a small area of the ceiling that jetted out just outside of the bathroom door in the main part of my finished area of the basement. I told him i had no idea since i had never thought to look inside it before. He then pulled down the bottom board that was only held there by a few very small nails, and voila, there was the upstairs tub's drain trap. So that was great that we didn't have to put any holes into the ceiling of the small bathroom! Now the work began....first Pete had to get the plug out of the drain, which was a chore in itself as the plug had probably been in there for 20 years. After attempting to just loosen it with a wrench, which didn't work because it was so tight, he torched it, and then worked it loose with a wrench and a hammer. Once he got the plug out, he looked into the drain with a flashlight and saw that there was something stuck in the side of the drain that went to the main outbound pipe. He used some tools to try to pry whatever it was out of there, but was only able to get a few pieces of things out. One of the pieces was metallic, so maybe that was from the tub surround guy dropping something down the drain when he was replacing it in the tub. The other pieces though were made of plastic, and were so dirty like they had been in there for a long time, so we couldn't tell what they were. After a while of trying to pry the plastic out, he thought of melting it enough until it would pull out easily, so he torched the plastic for a little bit and after a bit of effort pulling on it with pliers, he finally got it out. He used his flashlight to make sure there wasn't anything else in the trap, then got out his motorized snake and ran it through the pipes until it reached the main toilet pipe. Then we filled the tub with hot water, turned on the shower, and removed the plug to see if it would drain with a full tub, and water still going in from the shower. It drained like a champ! I've never seen that tub drain so well. I was VERY happy!! It's so nice to step out of the shower now and not have at least an inch and a half of water still sitting in the bottom of the tub for the next hour or two. Had I known Pete and John Huck Plumbing years ago, I would have had this done then. Pete is VERY good and is very smart about his job. Oh, and he is very conscious of people's property as well. Before he started anything, he laid down a large tarp on the floor, then put newspaper over that, and also put a tarp up over the wall right behind the trap hanging down to the floor so as not to get the gunk that came out of the trap and pipes all over the wall and floor. I'm not sure too many others would have gone to that extent to make sure not to mess up my room. Also, he was thinking ahead...instead of re-nailing the board back up to the ceiling, he put in a few phillip head screws so that the next time it needed taking down, it wouldn't need to be and quot;pulledand quot; down. Thanks Pete!!