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[threemeninaboat]

John is gonna sell me to the gypsies...
I put things down the sink and now the sink is busted.
Quick! Call me and tell me how to fix it. There are no manly men on my phone and my mommy isn't home.

Edit: He says it's okay, that happens all the time.
He brought me Jr Mints :)

Comments

[autumngrrl.livejournal.com]

Take the trap off, the curved bit on the bottom. Anything that fell down there should stay there. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, either.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

The problem is there's a garbage disposal, a trap, and then for some completely inexplicable reason, the pipe runs flat, into the wall, where it takes a 45 degree bend and runs flat for another meter, before taking a hard vertical right and acting like a drain pipe again. As a result, there's about 1.5m of pipe, including three joints, with the attendant flow restrictions (coz it's old cast iron) before the thing drains well. So *any* solids eventually end up stopping the drainage. Even regular NaOH doesn't fix the problem. So every time I have to pull the trap and run a snake 2m into it -- just push it, basically -- and dislodge stuff into the vertical section. It was a stupid design in the first place and it would be a PITA to repair, and heck, we're *leaving*! in under a month! so someone else gets to deal with it.

[autumngrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah. I get it now. We have a similar setup in the bathroom upstairs, though not as bad. Someone decided it was a GREAT idea to have a sink on the right-hand side, instead of in the middle of the wall where it was positioned, so ran a 2-3 foot length of pipe utterly horizontally. No grade at all.

We're fixing soon. Picked out a new vanity/top/bowl/faucet today, matter of fact. Moving the darned thing back to the middle of the wall.

[ex-flexible.livejournal.com]

Good grief.

My friend redshiftjourney has an almost identical plumbing layout in her kitchen. I had the very devil of a time trying to snake out her kitchen drain (not successfully). Landlord eventually moved the clog through with a pulse-jetter.

[corivax.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with the sink? Not draining? Leaking? Different fixes. :)

[theuns.livejournal.com]

This may not be the most comfortable option, but not fixing it might be the best thing you can do. After all, fixing your fixing is likely to be harder than fixing the original problem...

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I know. I dumped some draino (do they have that in New Z?) down there but he got home before I could really screw some things up,

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Besides, you did what I always do first. Only after the drano fails do I get into the horrible nasty icky bits.

[theuns.livejournal.com]

Probably - stuff you don't want to be spilling on your feet, that stuff.

Personally, my plumbing needs have been limited to pressure pulses via plunger. 8)