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Plumbing under sink

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  • 17-04-2014 2:57pm
    #1
    Extrasupervery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭


    Hello,

    My kitchen sink stunk no matter how many chemical products I flushed down it. I just took the plastic piping apart under it and cleared out loads of gunk. I kept track of which pipe and washer was which but when I went to put it back one piece wouldn't fit...

    pipe_zps6ec30785.jpg

    The white pipe shown won't meet with the black pipe bit under the drain of the sink...

    Any ideas?!


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    #2
    dpofloinn
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭dpofloinn


    Thats because that part does not connect to the white waste pipe, connect the 'U'bend section to the white waste pipe the part you currently have connected to the waste pipe should be connected to the sink.


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    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,037 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    If it stinks, replace that trap with a "proper" u-bend type trap.
    You may have a siphoning effect in your system which results in the smaller "hidden" ubend being dry, thus allowing the stink to come up the plug hole.

    you want the one on the left, not the right.
    220px-Vattenlaas.png


    /edit
    actually are there other pieces missing, the bit you have attached just looks like a T-junction...does something else connect?
    If so, no wonder it stinks, you dont have a trap at all!


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