Good morning folks,
I'm in the process of installing a new vanity top. pulled the old vanity top/sink out and have the new cultured marble top in place. The drain hole, of course, doesn't line up. I need to move it back about an inch. No problem, just use a repair fitting.
I grab one and get ready to cut/install and I see that somebody's already beaten me to it and the existing plumbing has a repair fitting place. With not much pipe to work with i have no alternative but to cut out the old one and replace it. Heck, it's about an inch or so so my hole/tail pipe might just line up.
Here is the issue.
The pipe coming out for the horizontal run from my ptrap is now only about 3/4 of an inch. If I bury this in the repair fitting it's OK but of course my tail pipe doesn't line up straight with the ptrap. If I insert it only about 1/2 an inch, my tail pipe lines up nicely but, of course, the horizontal run from the ptrap is no longer buried in the repair fitting.
I see the following as my options:
1) insert the ptrap the 1/2 inch so that it all lines up. Cement in place.
2) build a whole new ptrap.
Frankly, I'd much rather go for 1) if it will be sufficient. Will a pipe inserted the 1/2 inch into the repair fitting be leak proof and sufficiently strong?
Something tells me that 2) is the way to go but I doubt that, being a novice, I can get the new ptrap assembled and installed so that it fits as perfectly as the existing one.
I'm in the process of installing a new vanity top. pulled the old vanity top/sink out and have the new cultured marble top in place. The drain hole, of course, doesn't line up. I need to move it back about an inch. No problem, just use a repair fitting.
I grab one and get ready to cut/install and I see that somebody's already beaten me to it and the existing plumbing has a repair fitting place. With not much pipe to work with i have no alternative but to cut out the old one and replace it. Heck, it's about an inch or so so my hole/tail pipe might just line up.
Here is the issue.
The pipe coming out for the horizontal run from my ptrap is now only about 3/4 of an inch. If I bury this in the repair fitting it's OK but of course my tail pipe doesn't line up straight with the ptrap. If I insert it only about 1/2 an inch, my tail pipe lines up nicely but, of course, the horizontal run from the ptrap is no longer buried in the repair fitting.
I see the following as my options:
1) insert the ptrap the 1/2 inch so that it all lines up. Cement in place.
2) build a whole new ptrap.
Frankly, I'd much rather go for 1) if it will be sufficient. Will a pipe inserted the 1/2 inch into the repair fitting be leak proof and sufficiently strong?
Something tells me that 2) is the way to go but I doubt that, being a novice, I can get the new ptrap assembled and installed so that it fits as perfectly as the existing one.