Dishwasher siphon-break woes
This is a new install of a used dishwasher. Very simple, standard setup. Dishwasher outflow connected to straight-down tube on the air-gap mounted on the sink deck. The angle outflow air-gap tube connected with a 1 foot length of hose (1″ ID) to the tailpiece. This tailpiece is the kind with a little diverter inside.
Anyway, when the dishwasher empites, water bubbles out of the air-gap. I don’t understand why, or what I could possibly do to fix it.
Ideas? Bueller?
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Try the advanced search function on 'air gap', this topic has been beat to death many times before.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=16575.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=3967.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=31160.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=18490.20
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=16575.1
And on and on...
Good luck.
is there a new garbage disposal?
if so..... did you remove the punchout?
could the diverter be clogged? broken?
Wow, so many threads! And everyone with the same problem. No, there's no garbage disposal. I'm halfway tempted to put one in to solve the problem, but I think I'll go with the 20 inch loop and ditch the air vent altogether. Get a SS plug to fill the hole and I'm done. I hope.
don't use one.
they are as ugly as backflow preventes in yout front yard.
what idiot decrees that backflow preventers had to be so high in the air?