Kitchen sink plumbing loose--is that normal?
Question:I live in a building where the pipes get backed up, and I can hear my toilet burp sometimes when I haven't used it for hours.
My kitchen sink has a disposal, but when it gets more than the smallest amount of crap in there, it jams up.
Worse, the first straight vertical pieces coming out of the disposal is just sort of jammed between the pipe on the disposal and the one coming out of the wall, so whenever it gets backed up, water and everything else shoots out and floods my kitchen floor.
My landlord and his handyman say it's normal to have that pipe loose, but I haven't lived anywhere else that I've had to monkey with this once or twice a month.
Any ideas?
Answers:
No, it is not supposed to be loose. That's just plain wrong. On the pipe, which is usually 1 1/2" you will see a multisided ring, which is the seal nut. Get a large water pump plier and check for the tightness of all of those connectors. If they are all tight, which I seriously doubt, then the nylon gasket inside the nut is bad. You can go to any hardware store and get new nylon compression rings for very cheap money.
Are they Polish?
you will probably need to have the kitchen pipe snaked. then go to your local hardware store and get a disposal waste kit and re pipe the disposal. might be a good idea to replace the pee trap
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