Looking for suggestions- I put a new sink in my master bath- it is a salad bowl my wife found in some sale somewhere and I bored a hole and put in a drain- ties into old inch and a half galvinized drain line.
The old lav drained fine- the new sink moves like a glacier. The sink drain runs about four feet into a three inch main, which the toilet is connected to. The main is cast iron- no problems with the toilet and it is low flow. I have run a snake thru the line- came back as clean as something running thru a waste line can be- no nothing.
I added a mechanical vent to the line- folly. I am off to buy – hell I don’t know…something- we have a party with six and a half million people attending (and strippers) next week and the wife said fix it…
Uhm that is it.
Oh hell- strippers are people- didn’t mean to imply they weren’t. Some of my best friends are strippers…
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You didn't stuff anything in the drain while swapping out the bowl and forget it? I remember setting a toilet over a styro coffee cup stopper. It didn't flush so good the first time. Maybe the old sink had those rim vents. Maybe that passed enuf air to speed up the initial flow. I know their for overflow, but figures they'd act as a quick vent right at point of entry.
to paraphrase smitty, "beats the #### outta me"
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Drat, thought I had the answer on this one--that the old sink's overflow was assisting draining, and the salad bowl, lacking one, was going to be slower. Unfortunately, it just ain't so (have spent a lot of time around our sinks due to an on-going snake situation; took a few minutes to run a trial). Could I suggest using it according to its original design?....
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Rework
How did you splice the new drain to the old one? I'll bet you have a tail piece that is sticking too far into the old line and blocking the old elbow or "TEE"
Been there ... done that.
Had not thunk of that. The old drain came out of the wall a foot or so off line for the new sink and I turned the old tee 90 degrees to accept the knew drain pipes. Maybe I stuck one in too far in the rerout....
thanks
Good call. :-)
this is a obviosly a salad bowl that had oil and vinegar tossed in for the dressing. The wood had soaked up the oil. Every time it's draining, a little of the oil is mixing in and slowing down the drain speed.
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