How Do You Install Drain Plumbing In A Kitchen Sink?
Replacing the plumbing in a kitchen sink is a basic project that most people can handle on their own. Specialty plumbing kits are widely available in hardware stores to ensure that all of your separate components fit together and are threaded properly. Purchase a kitchen drain kit. It saves you the trouble of making complex measurements, cutting pipes, sealing joints and struggling to create the proper configuration to keep sewer gases from coming back into your home through the sink. Remove the old sink basket by unscrewing the nut that secures it with a spud wrench. You may need to use pliers to hold the basket into place while you remove the nut. There is a cross section under the basket where you can attach the pliers in order to hold it still. Clean above and below the removed sink basket to remove any gunk and plumbing putty. Don’t forget or skip this step, as it’s critical in insuring the new sink basket doesn’t leak once installed. Attach the washer of the new sink basket. If t
