Is this sink trap a hazard or illegal?

Hi all!

Question about "real-world plumbing" here...

I have a 1920s house with the usual mishmash of plumbing.

Ive attached a picture of my kitchen sink trap, and I'm wondering if it is illegal or a hazard or perhaps just crummy.

It is fairly slow to drain and I need to clean the trap out pretty often (thankfully easy to do).

But it looks to me like the tee coming out from the wall is wrong and the "arm" to the wall seems very long and like its fighting gravity.

Am I missing something or on to something?

It is vented ok from what I understand in my reading, and is the only fixture on the drain and vent.

It drains (behind the wall) into a 2 inch XH cast iron soil pipe, but there doesn't seem to be any blockage or explanation of slowness coming from that.

I know eventually need to replace the whole shebang but for now I'm just trying to deal with the slow drain.

thanks in advance for any advice!

Hard to tell for sure, but it does not look like the horizontal pipe is sloped down. Plus, being galvanized, is probably rusty and therefore grabs anything rather than it flowing well.

You could take out that galvanized section, convert to abs and shorten up that horizontal run fairly easily by turning the trap.

its perfectly ok

you are worrying about nothing here

that looks about average to me ......


if it is not giving you troubles , dont touch it

now the rags and plastic bags stuffed up around the water
lines do look pretty nasty....

You might want to shorten the extension from the drain a bit, replace both the galvanized pipe and the short plastic tailpipe with a longer plastic tailpipe, and pitch it on a slight angle.