Drain too high, or sink too deep.

[Moondawg]

Trying to install a sink in the garage but the Plumber says our drain pipe is too high for it to drain properly. There is 14" from the bottom of the sink drain to the floor. We are trying to figure out a resolution without moving the drain pipe. Ideas please?

 

[Terry]

Dearborn makes a reversing p-trap.
Your drain looks low enough, but not low enough for the way most traps are made. Reversing the Dearborn makes it a bit deep, but it does work.
Or you could cobble something up out of glued up fittings.

 

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[Moondawg]

Dearborn makes a reversing p-trap.
Your drain looks low enough, but not low enough for the way most traps are made. Reversing the Dearborn makes it a bit deep, but it does work.
Or you could cobble something up out of glued up fittings.

So with this configuration, the p-trap would work properly even though the drain pipe is higher than the bottom of the sink drain?

 

[Terry]

So with this configuration, the p-trap would work properly even though the drain pipe is higher than the bottom of the sink drain?

Yes. Looking down at the drain in the sink, you may see some water a bit further down, but because the trap can be installed with the J bend flipped, it gives you the room you need to make the connection. The drain at the wall is a bit lower than the bottom of the sink. There won't be water in the sink.

A standard p-trap looks like the one below.

This Dearborn below will reverse.

I carry a few on the truck because I'm finding plenty of sinks that are too deep for a standard trap now. The fashion now is to go with deeper sinks.

The other new fashion I'm seeing, is lav cabinets with a drawer or shelf below which is too low for where the drain was roughed in at.

So sinks, too high a drain, lavs, too low a drain. It's so much fun out there on remodels.

 

[Moondawg]

Great, thank you!

 

[Plumber69]

Trying to install a sink in the garage but the Plumber says our drain pipe is too high for it to drain properly. There is 14" from the bottom of the sink drain to the floor. We are trying to figure out a resolution without moving the drain pipe. Ideas please?

What is that basket strainer with the arm on it? and do you need it