omg i saw this video and immediately had to go to lowes and get a "y" and redo my sisters drain, the old one looked just like your picture with the accordian. very helpful. thank you
This is what I have under a friends sink. Thanks for the lesson. The clean out allows us to snake right at the stub-out and not have to remove the p-trap for her frequently clogged pipes. Thanks again.
Great video great explanation, I have the same problem in my bathroom and I've been looking for several solutions but yours is very useful and I am going to try it and lets see what happens !
That plumbing at the beginning was hilarious 🤣 I got a call from the wife about 3 years ago that water was leaking under the sink. I said just call a plumber. She called a big company who sent a guy and he replaced the water lines, all the drains, and stopped the leak. But I had never seen anything like that before. It looked like he took one of every fitting he had and glued them together. He used so much glue that it dripped on the bottom of the cabinet. I called them to complain and the foreman came out. He just shook his head and said I will fix this. He comes back with a box of fittings and a cordless Sawzall tocut everything out. In about 30-45 minutes he was done and it definitely looked right.
Lol! Oh man that is so crazy. Good customer service after the fact. That’s pretty cool. I have gone after some big companies and scratched my head a few times.
Great save and video! If the plumbing is good (plastic, not metal or iron) than cleanouts are not necessary. I usually use a slip fitting at the wall and all plumbing to be slip after that. I dry fit first before any glue in, less mistakes then. Usually use pvc, unless absolutely necessary. I do like the 1 1/2” p trap with the 1 1/4 slip nut etc. Thanks….Jim PS…..my current home is 19 years old, all pvc and only have cleaned out a few pvc p traps, never needed a snake ever.
I usually do the same but sometimes the cabinets are super deep or wonky in other ways like this one. I agree that pvc or abs done right is much better drain line these day, but I have seen bad clogs started by one pipe not being reamed at a fitting
As for dry-fitting first: I totally agree with you on that! Can you imagine somebody thinking that they've got everything all glued into place, without making sure, and then really losing their cool, because they made some kind of a mistake somewhere along the line? Then, it's back to Lowe's, or The Home Depot, or wherever, to buy more stuff so they can try again... simply because they forgot to measure everything out properly, and dry-test it first? I think that you and I agree on one thing: Better safe, than sorry! Dry-fit and dry-test first. THEN break out the glue, and Git-R-Done!!!
Ernie Hatmaker yes it does I get lazy a lot and do a comparison cut, but that can’t happen in a space like that. Thank you for checking out the channel! Much appreciated
Great job, thank you - as a woman I try to fix my own problems because others take to long or do o it wrong on purpose so you can keep calling and paying.
Hi Mark. It is not a standard it is just a good practice if you have room. I just wanted to make it easy on the next homeowner is all. I would have a clean out at each sink if I could.
Ok I think I got the right channel.. Josh @ Stoney Ridge farmer sent me over.. I see you too are an Air Force vet.. I was Army 8 yrs. I'm guessing you are up in Washington state? How long did you Serve ? Were you also at Hill AFB in Utah? Best wishes to you on growing your TH-cam channel.. if your content is good and people find value in the information you give.. Then it's a done deal and will assure your channel grows!
Awesome. My mom served 26 yrs in the army. I did 4 years active duty. I do live up in Washington. Really enjoy it up here. Hill was the last place I was stationed. Also where I met Stoney Ridge. Thank you for checking out the channel. I will try to keep the content going.
I have this issue my drain is an inch short, only 3” off the bottom shelf of the vanity i want installed. Guy said might have to cut hole in the shelf. Didnt sound like he wanted to raise the drain, sz its iron pipe, put in the 50’s. Would the wye thing work, with a 3” gap at the bottom. I think we will need an extension like you used here on the pipe from the sink??
I wish that I could use the Y but my drain pipe is all the way in the back right corner of the cabinet and I can't put a Y in and it was piped into a S . How do I fix it?
@@ThatFixItGuy I wish I'm a handy guy but I'm not so if you can recommend someone who works like you here in NYC that would be great. My issue is I don't have a p-trap installed under my sink and water directly drains all the way to the main pipe. I live on the 6th floor of an apt. building and stinky smell is coming out of the sink.
Made me wonder if whoever put that screwed up mess in place, was on something. Either that, or they just flat-out didn't know what they were doing! I'm not even a certified plumber, but even I know, that the way that that first plumbing line was set up, could've been a potential recipe for disaster! That thing looked like a plastic snake, the way that it went down, then up, then down again. Totally pathetic! Thankfully, our guy here got things straightened out, and did it the right way. Even at 60 years young, I could definitely learn how to do this kind of stuff. When you get the gist of it, it's fun to try to do stuff like this. It's like putting a Jigsaw Puzzle together. All you have to do, is think things through, and go from there.
Ok if this it the case you will need to open up the wall and see if you can move the trap arm tee up a few inches. Can you see in the drywall where the pipe goes through the wall? If so which way does the pipe run? If not you may want to make the hole around the pipe just a bit bigger so you can see which way the pipe goes.
@@ThatFixItGuy It was a name brand chain motel a block from Disneyland. It had an extended flex PVC tailpipe going to an ABS trap twisted 45 degrees. Wish I could attach the picture. First thing you see entering the room door.
Go ahead , and. Duh. Go ahead and . Why does he have to say , go ahead , before every part of the plan. So annoying. What part of the country is that?, where they say, " go ahead ", constantly , Anyone know ?
That is me learning how to do this. This is one of my first videos. Sorry we all can’t be Roger Wakefield out of the gate. Go ahead and let me have it some more! 😂
Nah , it's not your skill level, you are clearly competent. Its that phrase. And I must ask why ? What part of the country is this ? Midwest ? @ThatFixItGuy
@ThatFixItGuy 1st off thanks for your service,. My apologies for sounding rude. But , I ve watched quite a few instructional videos and come across the space fillers a lot. Especially, the uhhhhh, awww, uhhhh, and most recently a lot of the " let's go ahead, and "
A toilet flushing on the same network could siphon the trap dry, and defeat the entire purpose of a trap. Those accordion traps are also known to fail all the time. They collect a lot of sludge and clog, given the varying cross section. Plus the plastic walls are very flimsy.
First mistake us you didn't use a rubber collar before transitioning to ABS and you didn't prime any pipes before glue. Second, used ABS glue on PVC (also no priming). You should probably use transition glue, if you're going to be lazy. It's going to like hell.
Had the most ridiculous piping mess and thanks to your video i was able to correct it. Thank you, thank you.
Glad this helped! Hope I can help again.
omg i saw this video and immediately had to go to lowes and get a "y" and redo my sisters drain, the old one looked just like your picture with the accordian. very helpful. thank you
That is awesome! Glad that this helped! Hope we can help again.
This is what I have under a friends sink. Thanks for the lesson. The clean out allows us to snake right at the stub-out and not have to remove the p-trap for her frequently clogged pipes. Thanks again.
Installing that clean out will be a great addition then. I’m glad this was able to help. Thanks for watching and I hope we can help again.
Ok now I can start to replace my S traps with P traps. Excellent video, great for learning. Thank you.
Your welcome! Thank you for watching! Hope we can help again!
I recently learned that s traps are for floor drain and p traps are for wall drain like I'm this video
Great video great explanation, I have the same problem in my bathroom and I've been looking for several solutions but yours is very useful and I am going to try it and lets see what happens !
You got this! If you need anything please DM me on facebook and I will help if I can.
That plumbing at the beginning was hilarious 🤣
I got a call from the wife about 3 years ago that water was leaking under the sink. I said just call a plumber. She called a big company who sent a guy and he replaced the water lines, all the drains, and stopped the leak. But I had never seen anything like that before. It looked like he took one of every fitting he had and glued them together. He used so much glue that it dripped on the bottom of the cabinet.
I called them to complain and the foreman came out. He just shook his head and said I will fix this. He comes back with a box of fittings and a cordless Sawzall tocut everything out. In about 30-45 minutes he was done and it definitely looked right.
Lol! Oh man that is so crazy. Good customer service after the fact. That’s pretty cool. I have gone after some big companies and scratched my head a few times.
thanks for making this simple and easy to understand
Thank you so very much. really appreciate your kindness & help.
Your welcome. Thank you for the kind words. We are all about helping where we can. Please subscribe, share and help us grow.
Great save and video! If the plumbing is good (plastic, not metal or iron) than cleanouts are not necessary. I usually use a slip fitting at the wall and all plumbing to be slip after that. I dry fit first before any glue in, less mistakes then. Usually use pvc, unless absolutely necessary. I do like the 1 1/2” p trap with the 1 1/4 slip nut etc. Thanks….Jim
PS…..my current home is 19 years old, all pvc and only have cleaned out a few pvc p traps, never needed a snake ever.
I usually do the same but sometimes the cabinets are super deep or wonky in other ways like this one. I agree that pvc or abs done right is much better drain line these day, but I have seen bad clogs started by one pipe not being reamed at a fitting
As for dry-fitting first: I totally agree with you on that! Can you imagine somebody thinking that they've got everything all glued into place, without making sure, and then really losing their cool, because they made some kind of a mistake somewhere along the line? Then, it's back to Lowe's, or The Home Depot, or wherever, to buy more stuff so they can try again... simply because they forgot to measure everything out properly, and dry-test it first?
I think that you and I agree on one thing: Better safe, than sorry! Dry-fit and dry-test first. THEN break out the glue, and Git-R-Done!!!
Thanks I enjoy your videos
Thank you watching!
Great video! I had to reroute our plumbing for a new vanity and this was perfect. Thanks!
I’m so glad it helped. Hope we can help again
Great job man!!
I like to see you know what you are doing and you are doing it correctly.
Thanks for checking out the channel. Like you I am trying to give good info.
Very helpful.
Thank you
Genius!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for the tips Brian! Nice job and it looks so much better!
Yeah I had never seen anything hint like that! Lol! Looks like it is out of a dr Seuss book!
@@ThatFixItGuy ;)
Looks great and that was smart to add a clean out to it. I have the same brand of outdoor work bench that you used. 😊
LOL anything is better than nothing.
Man you are too good thanks bro
So glad this could help you out
Great video! Thanks!
Glad you liked it and thank you for watching,
Great guy,and great video
Thank you for the kind words. I hope we helped you and hope we can help again!
Great job. Like the double of the sealer not needed but better safe than sorry. Looks like you had a little something after job was done lol.
Lol. There is always something. Thanks for watching.
Thanks. Helped me.
That is great to hear! Hope we can help again.
Very helpful
Sad you had to cut that out. That was a work of art! Only thing missing was some Fernco...that would've put it among the all-time greats.
That tape measure comes in handy! Lol!
Ernie Hatmaker yes it does I get lazy a lot and do a comparison cut, but that can’t happen in a space like that. Thank you for checking out the channel! Much appreciated
This plumbing job, if we can call it that, is HILARIOUS !
Oh bro I know! I blew my mind! It looks like something out of a dr Seuss book!
Black pipe and white pipe working together 👍🏽👍🏽. Donde brown pipe?
You are awesome Mr. Vega. Thank you for checking out the channel.
Thanks
Great job, thank you - as a woman I try to fix my own problems because others take to long or do o it wrong on purpose so you can keep calling and paying.
Honest question: why did you use a Y joint instead of just a 45° angled joint?
The Y drain connector, is that the new standard or was there a particular reason this drain needed a clean out?
Hi Mark. It is not a standard it is just a good practice if you have room. I just wanted to make it easy on the next homeowner is all. I would have a clean out at each sink if I could.
Ok I think I got the right channel.. Josh @ Stoney Ridge farmer sent me over.. I see you too are an Air Force vet.. I was Army 8 yrs. I'm guessing you are up in Washington state? How long did you Serve ?
Were you also at Hill AFB in Utah?
Best wishes to you on growing your TH-cam channel.. if your content is good and people find value in the information you give..
Then it's a done deal and will assure your channel grows!
Awesome. My mom served 26 yrs in the army. I did 4 years active duty. I do live up in Washington. Really enjoy it up here. Hill was the last place I was stationed. Also where I met Stoney Ridge. Thank you for checking out the channel. I will try to keep the content going.
Great video. Just wondering, can I use a 45 instead of Y? Thanks
Yes you totally can. Don’t have to use a eye at all. They make 22’s as well if a 45 is too much.
@@ThatFixItGuy Thanks
Why is it with every fix it video I watch, I find my self yelling "Get to the point!"?
Cause I did this years ago and thought everyone needed to know all my thoughts! 😂 I’m getting better at it.
I have this issue my drain is an inch short, only 3” off the bottom shelf of the vanity i want installed. Guy said might have to cut hole in the shelf. Didnt sound like he wanted to raise the drain, sz its iron pipe, put in the 50’s. Would the wye thing work, with a 3” gap at the bottom. I think we will need an extension like you used here on the pipe from the sink??
Hey Cindy can you send me a picture or a short video I would like to see your set up. Ufix247@gmail.com
now thats i call a spegetti trap pipe!
LOL! Yes it is.
My wall tub doesn't stick out very much . Is this normal?
Send me a picture of you like. It does depend on the person that built it how long the trap arm sticks out.
What are all the pipe parts used? Could you send me links from Home Depot so I know what to buy?
Why did you use a Y connection? Someone explain please
Cause the plumbing was real wonky in that house and wanted to have a clean out. That it would be easier for them. Not necessary though.
Will an inverted p-trap work?
Flipped completely upside down? It will hold water and prevent smell but will not work correctly
Me too I love to do things for myself and I am almost 70 😆
I love that! I just want to help people help themselves. If I can do it anyone can!
I wish that I could use the Y but my drain pipe is all the way in the back right corner of the cabinet and I can't put a Y in and it was piped into a S . How do I fix it?
email me a picture or send me a message on facebook with a pic. I would be happy to look at it and give some feedback.
@@ThatFixItGuy under
@@ThatFixItGuy I sent you the pictures on Facebook messenger
Ok I will check it out.
do you do home service here in NYC?
Sorry I live all the way in Washington State. But I could help you in a video chat if you would like. Hit me up on Facebook.
@@ThatFixItGuy I wish I'm a handy guy but I'm not so if you can recommend someone who works like you here in NYC that would be great. My issue is I don't have a p-trap installed under my sink and water directly drains all the way to the main pipe. I live on the 6th floor of an apt. building and stinky smell is coming out of the sink.
Oh wow. I wish I knew someone that lived there. Ask a friend for a referral. If a friend had a positive experience good chance you will as well.
"Who plumbed this trap in?" probably a plumber
I want to hire this plumber to build a fun house for my kids guinea pig. 🤣
Made me wonder if whoever put that screwed up mess in place, was on something. Either that, or they just flat-out didn't know what they were doing! I'm not even a certified plumber, but even I know, that the way that that first plumbing line was set up, could've been a potential recipe for disaster! That thing looked like a plastic snake, the way that it went down, then up, then down again. Totally pathetic!
Thankfully, our guy here got things straightened out, and did it the right way.
Even at 60 years young, I could definitely learn how to do this kind of stuff. When you get the gist of it, it's fun to try to do stuff like this. It's like putting a Jigsaw Puzzle together. All you have to do, is think things through, and go from there.
What was the other half of the Y thing for since it was closed up?
It is a clean out. So you can run a snake down the line without taking the trap off. Thank you for checking out the channel Joe!
I have a problem the hole that goes into the wall is too low and the p trap cannot go any lower because of the vanity drawer please please help.
Can you email me a picture of it. Ufix247@gmail.com This way a can see if there is any room to play with.
@@ThatFixItGuy I have the same issue. The drain pipe from the wall is only a couple of inches from the button of the cabinet. What do you do?
Ok if this it the case you will need to open up the wall and see if you can move the trap arm tee up a few inches. Can you see in the drywall where the pipe goes through the wall? If so which way does the pipe run? If not you may want to make the hole around the pipe just a bit bigger so you can see which way the pipe goes.
@@davidgurinsky did you get your drain installed?
Pic looked like my plumber fail 😤
what? I don't get it, mine looks the same way
LOL. Doctor Seuss Did your plumbing too?
@@ThatFixItGuy I’m an electrician and figure that pipe drains should work like Romex. Correcting now
The things that people do. The only improvement that could have been done is a role of duck tape holding it all together.
LOL. That would have been Icing on the Cake!
1.45 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know! So wild!
What a mess!
Yeah craziest mess I have ever seen! I just started laughing!
Kinda gives it that steam punk look.
Lol it totally does. Thank you for watching
did that previous work🤣😂
I found one WORSE than that at a motel.
Lol! That is scary. I always thing commercial property is held to a higher standard.
@@ThatFixItGuy It was a name brand chain motel a block from Disneyland. It had an extended flex PVC tailpipe going to an ABS trap twisted 45 degrees. Wish I could attach the picture. First thing you see entering the room door.
🤣😂
Patrick Galla I know!
@@ThatFixItGuy At least they received a free clean out for a snake.
Patrick Galla wanted to leave it better than I found it. Not to hard in this case!!
dr suess
Go ahead , and. Duh. Go ahead and . Why does he have to say , go ahead , before every part of the plan. So annoying.
What part of the country is that?, where they say, " go ahead ", constantly ,
Anyone know ?
That is me learning how to do this. This is one of my first videos. Sorry we all can’t be Roger Wakefield out of the gate. Go ahead and let me have it some more! 😂
Nah , it's not your skill level, you are clearly competent. Its that phrase. And I must ask why ? What part of the country is this ? Midwest ? @ThatFixItGuy
@@tomsherry8961 originally from Missouri. Military raised all over.
@ThatFixItGuy 1st off thanks for your service,. My apologies for sounding rude. But , I ve watched quite a few instructional videos and come across the space fillers a lot. Especially, the uhhhhh, awww, uhhhh, and most recently a lot of the " let's go ahead, and "
Who gives a shit ,,it works
Believe it or not there are people out their that care. While I love for all to comment can we keep the four letter words out of a fix it channel.
A toilet flushing on the same network could siphon the trap dry, and defeat the entire purpose of a trap.
Those accordion traps are also known to fail all the time. They collect a lot of sludge and clog, given the varying cross section. Plus the plastic walls are very flimsy.
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@ what. I don’t know what that means but thank you for watching!
First mistake us you didn't use a rubber collar before transitioning to ABS and you didn't prime any pipes before glue.
Second, used ABS glue on PVC (also no priming). You should probably use transition glue, if you're going to be lazy.
It's going to like hell.
Great job thanks