problem with tailpiece

I am trying to install a pedestal sink and my problem is that the tailpiece hits the pedestal so I don't have room to install the p-trap. Is there an easy fix for this problem? Do I shim the sink or try bending the tailpiece?

sillyme said:

I am trying to install a pedestal sink and my problem is that the tailpiece hits the pedestal so I don't have room to install the p-trap. Is there an easy fix for this problem? Do I shim the sink or try bending the tailpiece?

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If you try to bend it you could break things long before you bend the thing. Does the pop-up sit flat? were is the tail piece hitting? Is the floor level? Does the sink sit flat to the wall? I could go on.

It sounds like the sink is not set right on the pedestal OR the sink is mis formed / deformed where the Pop up attach's to it causing it to hit the pedestal. The trap should not be touching.

If you attached the sink to the wall and the floor and sink wall are not close to being at a 90 degree angle to each other because one or the other are way off the sink wont line up with the pedestal and could cause the problem you are describing.

It sounds like you installed the pop up drain assembly "cock-eyed", as the tailpiece should come straight down, with plenty of clearance all around . Try removing and resetting the drain.

I haven't installed the sink yet. I installed the faucet and pop up and set sink on pedestal to determine the hight for trap when I came across problem of tailpiece hitting the inside front of pedestal. the sink is sitting in the proper place on the pedestal and is flush so the problem must be that sink is deformed. The sink brand is Celite the label says to report any defects but doesn't say where, no web address no phone number. this sink was a freebie from freecycle it is new never installed and came with new faucet still in the box. Anyone ever hear of Celite?

I left pop up loose to see if I could move it when sink is in place. it doesn't have that much play in the hole to be that far off suspect a bad sink.

It used to be with a DIY project you could always suspect an installation issue first, now a days it seems you can suspect a defective part or product first and be right more often.

Sad but true

Prehaps you have discovered why it was free.
Is it possible you have a missmatched sink/pedestal combo.
Is the pedestal the same on both ends? Any chance you are fitting it upside down?

I have gone so far as to buy a different pedestal - one with a full open back.

I've tried to cut some of the china out in various ways, but never found a way that didn't break the china.

I'm happy to say that most of my plumbing career was spent in an absence of pedestal basins. I'm sorry that they came back. I think clawfoot tubs should have stayed dead, too.

I recently was called to a home where the owner had a wall-mounted toilet tank - 'way up on the wall with brass piping hanging down. I don't much like those, either. It would be bad enough that they make those abortions, but they charge a huge amount of money for materials that are generally just garbage. On the long brass tube for the water supply, the pressing machine had made a crack or pinhole in the ring that holds the nut in place on the fill valve. Thirteen hundred bucks and he can't find the company to get it replaced. And they were so ashamed of their product that they didn't bother putting their name anywhere on it.

Herk said:

II'm happy to say that most of my plumbing career was spent in an absence of pedestal basins. I'm sorry that they came back. I think clawfoot tubs should have stayed dead, too.

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I once had a bent coin in my pocket that wouldn't work in any vending machine. Guess which one came out every time I went to by something in a machine. Crappy plumbing fixtures are a lot like a bad coin... They just keep coming back!