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    laura81 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Sep 4, 2006, 05:46 AM
    Relocating a sink - need a new drain.
    Hiya,

    Im a bit useless when it comes to anything like this, so please accept my apologies for my lack of knowledge!

    Right, I want to move my sink in my kitchen to the other end of the kitchen and onto a different wall. It will still be on the outside wall, yet it is too far to run a waste pipe from the new location of the sink to the old drain (plus it is round the corner). So I need to make another drain in the ground coming from the old one under the ground. Id basically like to know where to start! How do I go about doing this? Or is it best to get the proper people in to do it? Plus do I need to add it to my buildings control form when I tell the council Im putting a new window in? Kindest regards, Laura.
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    Sep 4, 2006, 10:24 AM
    Hi Laura,

    What you are planing is major surgery and unless you have plumbing skills and tools it's best left to a professional. You would have to run a vent as well as a new drain line plus repositioning the supplies. You didn't say but if you're on a slab the floor would have to jackhammered up to move the drainage.
    If this is a condo you will have to get permission for such a extensive remodel.
    Good luck, Tom

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