p-trap orientation?

[DanMc]

Hello,

I'm about to put a new pvc p-trap in place and I'm noticing that the piece is not 100% symmetric. In other words if I view the thing from the side so it looks like "U", one side transitions more gradually from vertical to horizontal than the other side.

Sort of like this:



X X
X X
X X
X X
X X
X X
******X



I hope that can be read. So I'm curious, does it matter which end connects to the shower drain and which end goes off into the drain pipe to the sewer? In other words does the rest of the "P" go on the left or the right in this picture?

Just trying to avoid having to redo this later.

Thanks
-Dan

p.s. This started as a "paint the bathroom" project and it has gone seriously downhill....

 

[DanMc]

2nd try on a drawing...

ok, that text drawing didn't work at all

I'll try again. here is a rather crude drawing of what I was trying to describe.

-Dan

 

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[Geniescience]

minor difference

it'll work both ways.

david

 

[DanMc]

thanks

thanks for the quick reply. New trap is in and seems to be water tight. Got a bit more of that purple stuff on the sides than what I wanted which looks a little sloppy. But then again, in another day no one will hopefully ever see that pipe again.

-Dan

 

[hj]

trap

When it was origianally introduced it was supposed to drain faster because the one side was a cycloid, but since there is no way to prove it, we install them either way.