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Today I demolished my bathroom and when I turned the sink drain nut the whole drain broke off. I'm not sure how it was connected but am a little confused about how to connect to the drain pipe to the new sink. My main concern is I am getting a pedestal sink but it will sit in an open console table. I'd like everything to look nice and shiny (no pvc). Attached is the sink I am getting and a picture of what the drain looks like. The drain sticks out only about a 1/2 inch from where the finished drywall will be.

So how do I attatch the new sink drain to this pipe while keeping it chromy lookin'?

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How about 1 more shot showing us the drain from further back.
Show more of the horizontal pipe.
 
Here is a shot from farther back.

Thanks!
 

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Yes the drain is in the perfect spot for the sink to be centered between the shower and the toilet.
 
Option 1 is unsweat the broken off piece and clean things up and sweat in a new pipe and trap adapter.

Option 2 would be to cut out the tee and put in a pvc tee and new drain arm. This properly imstalled would be hidden behind a chrome escutchion and all you would see is the chrome escutchion and the chrome trap.
 
Would option 2 seem like a better idea for a novice. I feel a lot more combfortable working with pvc than trying to unsweat something like that embedded in a stud and so close to an electrical outlet.

While I'm at it I was thinking of cutting off the supply lines about 6 inches from the floor and converting them to PEX using those sharkbite adapters so I could get the two lines exactly even. Right now one is higher and sticks out further than the other. This would also give me room to work on the drain.

So my questions are-

Do I use a pipe cutter or a hack saw to remove the tee?

And is converting the copper to PEX a good idea using the Sharkbite adapter?

Thank you so much for your suggestions!
 
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You are going to make a lot of work for yourself if you cut the tee out, and Sharkbites may not be the best option for the water lines. Why not break down and have a plumber remove that piece of copper and put the new one in AND revise the water lines properly. It is a very minor task for him.
 
Another vote for a plumber on this one, simple for the guy in the truck with the torch and fittings.

For it to look nice, the water supplies would be sharper looking with copper stub outs, evenly spaced, and then you can put chrome escutcheons and chrome stops on after the drywall and paint.

Also a plumber would set the trap threads barely beyond drywall so that a box flange would cover the slip joint nut.

All of that is exposed, and the money spent in the wall now will make or break the job.
 
Is the purpose of the pipe before the trap adapter just to get it to the right distance out or is it to get a male piece for the trap adapter fit on ? Also, what kind of pipe would I use to keep the chrome look? "Chrome plated" something?
 
It is for both purposes.
Use a deep bell or, box escutchion to cover the connection and then a chrome trap.
 
OK. So I went to HD to get the pipe and the trap adapter. When I measured the pipe shown at the top of this post it measure 1 1/2 on the outside and 1 3/8 on the inside. I was having trouble finding a pipe (coupling??) of 1 3/8 so I asked for help. I explained what I had and he gave me a 1 1/2 trap adapter and said that should get sweated OVER the pipe shown above... I measured the 1 1/2 trap adapter (shown below) and it actually was 1 3/4 (even though it says 1 1/2?) . So the trap adaptor is too big to sweat onto the pipe . I forgot to tell him that the pipe was an elbow, but when I told him the piece I unsweated came out from the inside he just said "trust me" so I did.

So my question is what size pipe do I really need and doesn't it need to fit on the inside of the drain? It seems that 1 1/2 would be too big and 1 1/4 too small.

Also, why do they call it a 1 1/2 trap adapter when it measures 1 3/4?
 

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Pipe: The I.D. is the size...
Tubular: The O.D is the size.
Sounds like you need an 1 1/4" trap adapter and a piece of 1 1/4 copper.
 
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