My Neighbors
This is the trap I replaced, you know, the one belonging to the neighbor who couldn’t figure out where the water under the sink was coming from.
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So, Bryan, at the time, your yard was, as a local plumber’s slogan has it, “a good place to take a leak”?
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Tomorrow, either the landlord will come by and pick that up, or it goes into the trash. He wanted to see what the problem was, and he owes for the cost of parts.
With a hole that big, I think you have exceeded the upper limit for “leak”.
You know, duct tape would have worked just fine to repair that leak. I don’t see why it took 3 hours to fix……..
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They actually sell a silicon plumbing tape to
idiotscustomers who want to do that. It costs most than the new PVC fittings. The old duct tape would have done it, but not the new stuff. The lead tape used to wrap nuclear warheads would have been a permanent fix. That was great tape.That 50-year-old chrome-plated brass tubing is not especially forgiving of the use of tools. That trap had pretty much corroded to the chrome on the bottom of the trap. I assume that someone used chemicals and didn’t flush them through on more than one occasion.
That sure does look like Draino damage. I was told by a plumber years and years ago to never use Draino… for that very reason. I have plastic drain pipes now, but I still don’t use chemicals. The old baking soda, salt and vinegar combination cleans it out just fine.
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Everything ends up at the sewage treatment plant, and those chemical are not a good thing to be pumping into the system. If it doesn’t respond to plunging, I generally start pulling things apart to get a “snake” down the drain. Most of the real clogs aren’t a result of build up, but something dropped down the drain, like a Star Wars action figure, or the covers on disposable razors.
For people with garbage disposals it is usually pork bone splinters.
Yes, baking soda, vinegar, and salt is a cheap and effective way to clean out build-ups if you don’t want to get physical. Most sink clogs today are the result of not having a regular flush of the kitchen system with hot, soapy water from doing dishes.
Ya know, I don’t feel so bad about not knowing about house stuff. I definitely know more than these folks…
They saw the water and didn’t even look for the source. I was at the house to answer a question about their cable modem hook-up when the water leak was mentioned.
LOL! You got suckered into that house with a technological ploy!
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You got it. It’s the price of owning tools.