Installing Bathroom Sink Drain Trap

To ensure water will drain properly and won t back up in the line a good rule of thumb to follow when installing pipe is a drop of 1 4 inch per foot.

Installing bathroom sink drain trap.

Every drainpipe whether underground or in a wall must have some type of pitch and be sloped properly to allow wastewater leaving the home to drain out. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink. With your pedestal sink on the wall you can install the p trap. In this diy plumbing tutorial i ll show you how to install the sink drain namely the p trap.

The u shape of this pipe is the trap that retains enough water to prevent sewer gases from entering the bathroom. The curved pieces of drain pipe underneath your sink commonly referred to as p traps do a lot of dirty work. If you re installing a brand new drain on an unused sink you can skip straight to preparing your plumber s putty for the area around the drain hole. If not add a tailpiece to make up the distance cutting it to the needed length.

Does your sink have a pop up drain. Learn how to replace it. The p trap is the curved section of pipe at the base of the sink s plumbing. We initially show the p trap bac.

The other end of the p trap can slide into and out of the fitting on the wall. If you are looking for an easy step by step instructional on how to plumb a drain then this is it. Over time they leak become corroded or get pl. Once you ve loosened both nuts lift the entire p trap free from the plumbing.

You can adjust the p trap sliding it up and down on the pipe that leaves the sink drain. There are 3 parts you ll need when installing a new sink drain. This video shows how to assemble drain pipes under a sink. The sink drain starts as a tailpiece and may reach the p trap without additional parts.

Here we show you how to perform your plumbing p trap installation when the bathroom sink drain doesn t line up.