Hi All,
Well Google led me here, hopefully it's fate.
I discovered a leak under my kitchen sink. The lead was at a connection between PVC pipe connections just after the "U" (not a plumber so don't know the terminology, but it's the place where rings end up if they go down the drain ). Anyway, the root cause was pressure from a blockage either at the metal pipe coming out of the wall or somewhere between the house and the street.
When I disconnected the PVC from the metal pipe in the wall I discovered a PVC pipe had been glued/gunked/welded/jammed inside the metal pipe and there is a large amount of really thick, sticky, black sledge inside. Is that normal?
So the questions are:
How do I get the PVC out?
How do I attach a new PVC pipe to the metal wall pipe? (it's not brass or copper, so I'm guessing steel).
Thanks,
John
Well Google led me here, hopefully it's fate.
I discovered a leak under my kitchen sink. The lead was at a connection between PVC pipe connections just after the "U" (not a plumber so don't know the terminology, but it's the place where rings end up if they go down the drain ). Anyway, the root cause was pressure from a blockage either at the metal pipe coming out of the wall or somewhere between the house and the street.
When I disconnected the PVC from the metal pipe in the wall I discovered a PVC pipe had been glued/gunked/welded/jammed inside the metal pipe and there is a large amount of really thick, sticky, black sledge inside. Is that normal?
So the questions are:
How do I get the PVC out?
How do I attach a new PVC pipe to the metal wall pipe? (it's not brass or copper, so I'm guessing steel).
Thanks,
John