Anthony Curtas
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So the kitchen remodel keeps fighting me at every turn. I did careful measurements while I had the sheetrock down and figured out that my disposal dischage should have been 3/4" above the wall stub. Close, but still flowing down hill and more than the 1/4" the manufacturer requied in the install guide.
Well it's a firelclay sink and now that I have it out to make a template, I found that: it's 1/4" taller than spec, and the base is about 1/4" thinner than spec. These both work against me and now and my 3/4" of height is now slightly below 1/4". Yikes.
So I'm weighing my options. Sadly the walls are up, mudded, and painted, plus half the cabinets are installed. The drain in the wall goes across 2 studs before turning into the basement, so lowering it would have been a pain, requiring new or sistered studs with existing wiring and window headers (a mess).
So my options:
1) Go from an undermount to a proud mount of the sink, which will buy me 1-1/4" (not ideal, we were looking forward to undermount, plus there can be expansion, cracking issues of surrounding stone countertops)
2) Try to find another disposal that has a shorter sink bottom to drain distance. The only one I found so far is a 1/2 HP economy model that probably won't fit the bill, but I will keep looking.
3) Re-plumb in the cabinet? Can I use the existing drain line as a vent and then have the P-trap lower, turn it down through the cabinet bottom on a Y and then use some 45's to turn the other side up and connect it to the existing stub as a vent? I have an unfinished basement, so I can make the connections, but it would leave me with a "loop" where the existing drain/vent was. Is this legal? I know I can't do an S trap and I can see how this is different, but I'm not doing a good job describing it.
Any other options I haven't considered?
Thanks guys,
Anthony
Well it's a firelclay sink and now that I have it out to make a template, I found that: it's 1/4" taller than spec, and the base is about 1/4" thinner than spec. These both work against me and now and my 3/4" of height is now slightly below 1/4". Yikes.
So I'm weighing my options. Sadly the walls are up, mudded, and painted, plus half the cabinets are installed. The drain in the wall goes across 2 studs before turning into the basement, so lowering it would have been a pain, requiring new or sistered studs with existing wiring and window headers (a mess).
So my options:
1) Go from an undermount to a proud mount of the sink, which will buy me 1-1/4" (not ideal, we were looking forward to undermount, plus there can be expansion, cracking issues of surrounding stone countertops)
2) Try to find another disposal that has a shorter sink bottom to drain distance. The only one I found so far is a 1/2 HP economy model that probably won't fit the bill, but I will keep looking.
3) Re-plumb in the cabinet? Can I use the existing drain line as a vent and then have the P-trap lower, turn it down through the cabinet bottom on a Y and then use some 45's to turn the other side up and connect it to the existing stub as a vent? I have an unfinished basement, so I can make the connections, but it would leave me with a "loop" where the existing drain/vent was. Is this legal? I know I can't do an S trap and I can see how this is different, but I'm not doing a good job describing it.
Any other options I haven't considered?
Thanks guys,
Anthony