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p-trap location - Changing from wall hung sink to vanity sink
Hi folks,
Here's another plumbing issue I'm coming across.
I had a wall hung sink in the bathroom that was there probably for a long time. I am installing a vanity sink instead.
With the vanity sink I purchased, the location of the p-trap's outlet would roughly be around 7" from the wall. The old outlet tube would meet the p-trap's outlet at 3" (measured from the wall). So the new p-trap won't meet this tube.
Old wall-hung sink - outlet tube:
How do I make up for the difference to connect to the new p-trap then? Would I need to remove this outlet tube since it won't match up to the new p-trap from the vanity sink location?
Anyone would have any suggestion:
- if there's a way to hook up to the new vanity sink's p-trap - to make up for the difference of the location
(4" difference)
- if need to remove this old tube, how to go about doing it?
(Note: the CI elbow is in the wall...)
A close-up of the connection to the CI-elbow. It seems the tube was 'glued' to the CI elbow?
(It's pretty tight...)
BTW, in our 2nd bathroom, this is how the new p-trap was installed (by the installer):
Looks like the p-trap was installed the opposite way so to allow for an elbow to match up for the location of the new flange from the vanity sink. Perhaps the installer didn't want to remove the old tube.
Is this an acceptable way of installing the p-trap? (Or someone'd be real upset when seeing this...)
If not, let me know so I might as well fix it up also... .
Thx.
Hi folks,
Here's another plumbing issue I'm coming across.
I had a wall hung sink in the bathroom that was there probably for a long time. I am installing a vanity sink instead.
With the vanity sink I purchased, the location of the p-trap's outlet would roughly be around 7" from the wall. The old outlet tube would meet the p-trap's outlet at 3" (measured from the wall). So the new p-trap won't meet this tube.
Old wall-hung sink - outlet tube:
How do I make up for the difference to connect to the new p-trap then? Would I need to remove this outlet tube since it won't match up to the new p-trap from the vanity sink location?
Anyone would have any suggestion:
- if there's a way to hook up to the new vanity sink's p-trap - to make up for the difference of the location
(4" difference)
- if need to remove this old tube, how to go about doing it?
(Note: the CI elbow is in the wall...)
A close-up of the connection to the CI-elbow. It seems the tube was 'glued' to the CI elbow?
(It's pretty tight...)
BTW, in our 2nd bathroom, this is how the new p-trap was installed (by the installer):
Looks like the p-trap was installed the opposite way so to allow for an elbow to match up for the location of the new flange from the vanity sink. Perhaps the installer didn't want to remove the old tube.
Is this an acceptable way of installing the p-trap? (Or someone'd be real upset when seeing this...)
If not, let me know so I might as well fix it up also... .
Thx.
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