DIY & Home Improvement

Buy a good quality plastic kit and pay attention to how the plastic "compression" gaskets slide in so you get a good seal. I swear on my next project, I'm going to use all glue joint PVC and skip the compression all together..... no more fiddling with compression joints.

The reason I dislike metal is it's a pain in the ass to cut.... sharp edges and hack-saws... I like to just about cut a finger off.


We did glue joint PVC at my mother-in-laws in the spring and it worked like a charm. One fit, clean and glue and not a single drip.

She then decided to move so we remodeled the new kitchen before Thanks Giving and we got stuck at Menard's the night before the holiday so we couldn't find the right PVC glue-up pieces so I took the safe rout with a plastic kit. A bit of fiddling and we got it right - no leaks.

She had 1 1/2 inch copper coming out of the wall so I was tempted to get fancy and go all copper but, again, we were up against a time crunch. We promised she would be cooking TG dinner and we barely made it..... it didn't help that I talked her in to tearing down a wall the week before TG. This was three days after they moved in to the new house (they call me crazy).

Anywho, yes, drains.....my White Whale.....

Here's one I obsessed over in my own bathroom when I installed it. God damn it, I wanted a nice looking plumbing job. That "bottle-trap" under that sink was not cheap but it was purty. Who looks at that shit but lunatics like me?: