12-29-2008, 10:53 PM
I'm gonna guess (from remembering how my flex pipe gets caught on the cold water shut-off sometimes) that the stop block stops just that from happening.
If the hose in that pic were to fall back on the left side of the drain pipe rather than straight down on the right side of the drain pipe, it could get caught.
Wouldn't help with my plumbing. My plumbing was installed by a carpenter who put the shutoffs 180 degrees the wrong way facing the flex pipe rather than away from the flex pipe to minimize getting snagged.
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Greg- I'm assuming you loosened and yanked off the u-shaped trap without taking it all apart:
All the plastic parts should go easy.
You have to undo all the threaded ring compression fittings, unless you have a very deep well of four letter words and /or patience.
remove ring, slide clear washer out, put pipe up next to washer, thread compression fitting ring back on. Hand tight. When doing two at once a third hand comes in handy.
The circle in the first pic and the arrow in the second pic are indicating compression fittings. If you don't dissasemble them and put back together in pieces they'll hear your frustration in East Kalamazoo.
If the hose in that pic were to fall back on the left side of the drain pipe rather than straight down on the right side of the drain pipe, it could get caught.
Wouldn't help with my plumbing. My plumbing was installed by a carpenter who put the shutoffs 180 degrees the wrong way facing the flex pipe rather than away from the flex pipe to minimize getting snagged.
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Greg- I'm assuming you loosened and yanked off the u-shaped trap without taking it all apart:
All the plastic parts should go easy.
You have to undo all the threaded ring compression fittings, unless you have a very deep well of four letter words and /or patience.
remove ring, slide clear washer out, put pipe up next to washer, thread compression fitting ring back on. Hand tight. When doing two at once a third hand comes in handy.
The circle in the first pic and the arrow in the second pic are indicating compression fittings. If you don't dissasemble them and put back together in pieces they'll hear your frustration in East Kalamazoo.