kanati
Jan 10, 2010, 10:22 AM
I recently attempted to replace my bathroom faucet. I turned off the water and removed the water lines. The stop was leaking at the bottom of the sink so I started to remove that as well and replace it. Unfortunately the s-trap and it's down pipe were... old to say the least. And the water in this town is HORRIBLE (I won't drink it) and I think between the two things, the pipes got brittle. The entire s-trap basically shattered. Including the fitting on the down pipe. There's still a rather significant amount of pipe sticking up through the floor (at least a foot).
I purchased a new s-trap and what I had hoped was a slip-jointed pipe I could fit down in the down pipe (1 1/4" to a suaged pipe) and the suaged part is exactly the same size as the down pipe.
Basically... without tearing up the floor and attempting to remove the downpipe, which might result in more broken pipes, is there an easy type of patch I could apply to redo the s-trap/downpipe? The downpipe's walls are too thin to re-thread it by the way.
Dammit... I'm a computer programmer, not a plumber!! :o
I purchased a new s-trap and what I had hoped was a slip-jointed pipe I could fit down in the down pipe (1 1/4" to a suaged pipe) and the suaged part is exactly the same size as the down pipe.
Basically... without tearing up the floor and attempting to remove the downpipe, which might result in more broken pipes, is there an easy type of patch I could apply to redo the s-trap/downpipe? The downpipe's walls are too thin to re-thread it by the way.
Dammit... I'm a computer programmer, not a plumber!! :o