Mr Blint
New Member
I am trying to replace the trap on a powder-room drain installed in our house back in the 1950s. It is a 1-1/4 American Standard popup drain with overflow. Whoever did the original install did not put enough space between the sink drain pipe and the candy-cane pipe coming up out of the floor through the wooden base of the vanity. (The drain pipe in the basement below the powder-room floor is cast iron.) And so, when the new trap is threaded on, the threads are not perfectly aligned on the same axis but about 3/16" off, and the drain leaks. I don't know how they managed to force the original pipes together, but there is a crack on the side of the original trap at the bottom, like it has been stressed. I was thinking an offset drain would give me some additional places where the threads might align on the same axis but I haven't found an offset drain that also has the popup feature. Does such a drain exist, popup + offset + overflow?