Hello,
I have been trying to find a plumber to install a kitchen sink, dishwasher, and disposer since November. We've gone back and forth a few times with proposals. Each proposal leaves key items unmentioned.
First it is a 50 year old house. I just bought it 3 months ago.
Two items:
In the basement there are old stains on the wall near the vertical drain pipe decending from the kitchen. A clog was probably snaked between 2 and 10 years ago. Licenced Plumber A noticed this.
A's first proposal involved tearing open the wall and replacing the stub coming out the wall (it's a three-way "Y") and the 3 to 5 foot possibly horizontal feed to the vertical drain pipe and vent from the basement. The drain flows like a champ now with no signs of clogging.
A friend, Licenced Plumber B, said "No". If it works...
Just be sure to leave access points for future snaking.
(Unfortunatly B is far too busy to do the job.)
I would like the existing traps and under-sink pipe examined and/or replaced (there are signs of prior leaking) and the trap system reworked to revent "gurgling" as one of the two sink bowels empty. -- No mention of this in his quotes.
When I asked that the dishwasher drain into the disposer knock-out, Plumber A says "this is discouraged due to the fact that the dish washer should drain into other sink to eliminate cross contamination - please call Onondaga Health Department 435-6614 for verification" .
Whaaat ???? I plan on calling the Health Dept, but I see here and everywhere else to attach the dishwasher to the disposer if a knock-out is available.
Any thoughts on any of this. I don't know if Plumber A is a genius seeing things others miss or just trying to run up the bill. Plumber A is highly recommended.
Thanks for any comments / critiques.
Barry.
I have been trying to find a plumber to install a kitchen sink, dishwasher, and disposer since November. We've gone back and forth a few times with proposals. Each proposal leaves key items unmentioned.
First it is a 50 year old house. I just bought it 3 months ago.
Two items:
In the basement there are old stains on the wall near the vertical drain pipe decending from the kitchen. A clog was probably snaked between 2 and 10 years ago. Licenced Plumber A noticed this.
A's first proposal involved tearing open the wall and replacing the stub coming out the wall (it's a three-way "Y") and the 3 to 5 foot possibly horizontal feed to the vertical drain pipe and vent from the basement. The drain flows like a champ now with no signs of clogging.
A friend, Licenced Plumber B, said "No". If it works...
Just be sure to leave access points for future snaking.
(Unfortunatly B is far too busy to do the job.)
I would like the existing traps and under-sink pipe examined and/or replaced (there are signs of prior leaking) and the trap system reworked to revent "gurgling" as one of the two sink bowels empty. -- No mention of this in his quotes.
When I asked that the dishwasher drain into the disposer knock-out, Plumber A says "this is discouraged due to the fact that the dish washer should drain into other sink to eliminate cross contamination - please call Onondaga Health Department 435-6614 for verification" .
Whaaat ???? I plan on calling the Health Dept, but I see here and everywhere else to attach the dishwasher to the disposer if a knock-out is available.
Any thoughts on any of this. I don't know if Plumber A is a genius seeing things others miss or just trying to run up the bill. Plumber A is highly recommended.
Thanks for any comments / critiques.
Barry.
