Hey all - I'm relatively new to this process and I'm getting a little confused as I read through some of these posts, so I thought I would just ask new. I apologize if I have duplicated someone elses question.
We are remodeling a kitchen in an old house. The tee in the wall pipe rests pretty high off the floor and is giving us a little trouble. We have put in a stainless steel sink - and I hooked up an badger 5 insinkerator garbage disposal to it last night. At current - the outlet of the disposer is at the exact same height as the tee in the wall, which I know to be bad.
I've tried to look for disposers with a shorter distance between sink and outlet - but this is the smallest I can find. 6" (adding 1/2inch for stainless steel - but I don't know why). Is there anything I can do to raise the dishwasher an additional 1/4-1/2 inch to prevent buildup in the disposer?
I've already considered increasing the thickness of the countertop to raise the sink - and if the facing tile is large enough - that might work. Or I've considered raising all of the cabinets off the floor that extra 1/4" and masking it off when we tile the floor - but would have to compensate somehow so the dishwasher doesn't look out of place. Either that or find a slightly shallower sink (which would probably be the easiest - but the other half isn't thrilled about). All of these options seem better than messing with the drain pipe already in the wall. Other suggestions I might consider?
My second question has to do with my p traps. In my limited experience - a p trap always goes straight over to the wall. But under current design - I go down into the p-trap - come back up - and as I start to head to the wall - I'm short. I'm thinking that I can use some sort of s-bend or 2 90degree elbows to go back up 1inch or so to meet the wall, can I?
And final question - If I were to forego the disposal - can I run the two drains down into seperate p-traps and then join them together with a "Y" right before the wall (both p-traps would be at the proper height - the "Y" would only be to join them together before the wall)?
Thanks so much for your help!
We are remodeling a kitchen in an old house. The tee in the wall pipe rests pretty high off the floor and is giving us a little trouble. We have put in a stainless steel sink - and I hooked up an badger 5 insinkerator garbage disposal to it last night. At current - the outlet of the disposer is at the exact same height as the tee in the wall, which I know to be bad.
I've tried to look for disposers with a shorter distance between sink and outlet - but this is the smallest I can find. 6" (adding 1/2inch for stainless steel - but I don't know why). Is there anything I can do to raise the dishwasher an additional 1/4-1/2 inch to prevent buildup in the disposer?
I've already considered increasing the thickness of the countertop to raise the sink - and if the facing tile is large enough - that might work. Or I've considered raising all of the cabinets off the floor that extra 1/4" and masking it off when we tile the floor - but would have to compensate somehow so the dishwasher doesn't look out of place. Either that or find a slightly shallower sink (which would probably be the easiest - but the other half isn't thrilled about). All of these options seem better than messing with the drain pipe already in the wall. Other suggestions I might consider?
My second question has to do with my p traps. In my limited experience - a p trap always goes straight over to the wall. But under current design - I go down into the p-trap - come back up - and as I start to head to the wall - I'm short. I'm thinking that I can use some sort of s-bend or 2 90degree elbows to go back up 1inch or so to meet the wall, can I?
And final question - If I were to forego the disposal - can I run the two drains down into seperate p-traps and then join them together with a "Y" right before the wall (both p-traps would be at the proper height - the "Y" would only be to join them together before the wall)?
Thanks so much for your help!
