How To Hook Up A Bathroom Sink Drain

Start by attaching the tailpiece to the sink drain and tightening the slip nut and washer by hand.

How to hook up a bathroom sink drain. This will determine where you will need to run the plumbing lines. Locate and carefully mark all cut points and step 2 turn off the water to the house. It will be a flattened piece of rubber that fits up under the sink. Some sinks come with gaskets that go between sink and tailpiece.

The sink stopper replacement starts by inserting the stopper into the drain. If you have a multiple bowl sink all of the drain tailpieces should be the same length for an easier installation. If it doesn t use non hardening plumbers putty or silicone to create the seal. You will need to figure out the placement of your bathtub or shower sink and toilet.

Slide the clevis the flat slotted bar over the pivot rod and then push that rod into the drain. Hand tighten a female adapter onto the drain stub out at the wall. The bathroom sink s water lines are roughed in 3 inches above the drain. Hold the washer in place and screw on the connecting lock nut.

Measure 21 inches approximately above the finished floor. A sink is connected to the drain plumbing by a tailpiece that s tightened to the drain flange. From the center of the drain measure 4 inches to the left and 4 inches to the right. Slide a drain washer over the tailpiece.

Install the tailpiece and drain kit. Then go back to the clevis screw. Replace the nut you removed from the horizontal rod but tighten it only lightly just enough to hold the rod in place. Step 1 determine the placement of the bathroom plumbing fixtures.

Slip the trap onto the tailpiece and then position the trap s horizontal piece next to the drain line coming out of the wall. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink. This nut will secure the. Slide slip nuts onto the drain arm and the sink s tailpiece and tighten the connection at the base of the sink.

Connect the drain parts push the pop up drain tailpiece assembly up through the drain opening from under the sink as high as you can. 1 x research source before doing any. Slide the nut up and screw it to the strainer. Slide the rubber gasket up the tailpiece and fit it around the hole in the sink.

Drop the tailpiece through the sink and screw on the tailpiece nut from underneath. You will have to cut holes in the floor so that you can run the pipes to the fixtures so determining the exact placement is important. The hot line and cold line are spaced 8 inches apart from left to right. Learn how to replace it.