Installing Bathroom Sink Drain Trap

If not add a tailpiece to make up the distance cutting it to the needed length.

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. There are 3 parts you ll need when installing a new sink drain. A p trap kit a trap adapter and a pop up or regular sink drain assembly. Over time they leak become corroded or get pl.

Put the tailpiece washer into the flared end of the tailpiece then attach the tailpiece by screwing the slip nut onto the sink strainer. The sink drain starts as a tailpiece and may reach the p trap without additional parts. Does your sink have a pop up drain. The p trap is the curved section of pipe at the base of the sink s plumbing.

If you also want to see how i installed my wall faucet and vessel sink watch the video above. 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. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink.

You can adjust the p trap sliding it up and down on the pipe that leaves the sink drain. 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. Learn how to replace it.

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. Here we show you how to perform your plumbing p trap installation when the bathroom sink drain doesn t line up. 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. This video shows how to assemble drain pipes under a sink.

Once you ve loosened both nuts lift the entire p trap free from the plumbing.