jutting sideways mid-corner from its origin and passing the sink drain on the new sink. This would be solvable, except the garbage disposal on the other side of the sink has a connector headed for the same drain.
Now imagine: drain A needs a p-trap, one of those little half-u bends that traps nastiness and prevents odor from the drain reaching the kitchen; and drains should always be as direct, short, and efficient as possible. They also have to be higher than the exit drain.
The drain from the new disposal, which we did get mounted, goes sideways and contests for the same drain. We cannot have it go ‘up’ to meet the drain. The best we can figure is to T both drains above a p-trap that goes to a pipe that goes to a drain. It is all, thank goodness, PVC, until you get to the iron pipe. I’d go with hose, because I don’t want any right-angle bends to catch stuff. But Jane says go with pipe: she doesn’t trust hoses. So I’m going to go in there and try to sketch the situation to take to the hardware store. We won’t have water in that sink until we can hook up the drains.
It’s gravity at its finest. Roman style plumbing. You just have to design the most efficient route to get both lines to the drain.
Just a thought for your blog readers. Take a photo. In this day and age of phones with cameras and inexpensive digital cameras … take a photo of the part needed or area to repair to the hardware store. Use a ruler for scale. Get a bright flashlight or lamp if necessary for lighting.
There is supposed to be a flexible coupling for cast iron drains, not unlike the couplings on car radiators: a metal bendy section that comes in various lengths, with adjustable hose clamp fittings on either end. I know it’s not pipe, but I don’t know if Jane really wants to get into cast iron fittings (read molten lead and oakum tamped into cracks). You might have to carefully cut off the extra cast iron pipe to make it fit better. Check with your friendly neighborhood DIY store and see what they say about it; that picture will be a big help. Washing coffee cups in the bathroom sink is doable, but a real drag after a few days, and eating off of paper plates likewise. You have my sympathy and support 🙂
CJ, at the home supply store they offer a bag of various-shaped “odds and sods” of PVC tubing, some of which sleeve into others with a compression fitting to prevent leakage. Grab bags like this let you “go this way to get enough room to go that way,” which is often necessary.
This is a good thing for the marine tank, where we ALSO use PVC: I had some leftovers, but nothing that fit. I’ll have to get one of those bags, for the tank! I just had to get some 1/2 inch hose (one foot: try asking for that!) to get the GFO (granulated ferric oxide) reactor to run properly. No marine hobbyist ever has too many connectors or too many sizes of hose!
My use of the term ‘tubing’ may have been unintentionally deceptive–I mean thin-wall pipe, not flexible tubing in the usual sense. The stuff is rigid but lightweight and about 1-1/2 inch in diameter–and would probably work for your marine tank if you can use stuff of that bore size.
We got it; we took a photo to Ace and Jane’s plumbing job had one micro leak that needed the slight turn of a pair of pliers, and we have a working garbage disposal, a spray-faucet sink in brushed pewter-tone stainless, and a drain.
We are now replacing all the dishes and such and putting away all the tools. I had to get one white tile piece from the bath shower enclosure because we were one tile short on the backsplash for the kitchen—that is a *job* to get that tile off unbroken. I managed to punch a hole in the kitchen wallboard, but the tile covers that sin, and beyond that, we’re good. It looks great. Now I know how to cut counterboard for a sink, but am relieved we didn’t have to do the whole job: it’s cold out there! [The secret is, get your dimensions, and get a ‘hole’ bit for your drill: saw a 2″ hole at each corner, INSIDE the dimension AND allowance given. That hole becomes your rounded corner, when you connect your 4 ‘dots’ along the appropriate saw-line, with a jigsaw. Drop the sink in,and you’re pretty well set.]
It looks great and the plumbing all works!
Huzzah! Let us hope you have a reasonable hiatus before needing to do whatever the next home repair job might be.
Good for you. I am glad you got that chore done with a minimum of grief.
The joy of plumbing.
AND you found the time to post the Seeking North piece. Worth waiting for! This is really going to be so much fun.
And I’m glad you got the counters done also.