Loosen the fitting in your bottom photo. Slide the threaded ring up the tailpiece and hold it there... while you take the little tapered compression ring that is still sitting on the p trap and slip it over the end of the tailpiece, ensure that the tapered end faces down and that the ring slides up about 1" or two onto the tailpiece coming down from the sink. Raise the trap up so that the pieces fit together again, then tighten the fitting back up.
Keep in mind that the trap needs to be as high as possible, but not so high that the pipe coming from the right is running uphill.
Wow, okay. Loosen b. Slide it up the neck of A and hold it there. There is a ring sitting in the top of C. Slide it up onto A a couple inches. Then push C onto A and tighten B. E should run slightly downhill toward C but it doesn't need much pitch at all.
After its together you might need to tighten one more nut that you don't have pictured. It is way back behind E, the one you can barely see the top of, by the wall.
Thanks XSleeper finally today I got some time to do it today. What I learnt is that ring sitting in the top of C is key to keep it in the correct position. I did not push up too much so that E is still slightly tilted.
It looks like E might be too long as it appears to be pushing everything else out of line. Unless that's just the camera lens. A-B looks crooked. Or maybe you need to rotate your trap a little clockwise. Hard to tell without being there.
Hi XSleeper, the same thing fall off again after just 4 months. If I need to replace any pieces to prevent this recurring problem, what should I do?
Thanks
Agreed, and while you're at it, I'd personally replace the nylon washer in B. Sometimes they get hard and don't grip quite as well. But regardless, make A longer as XSleeper mentioned.
@XSleeper I could not find the tailpiece on Home Depot website. Tailpiece extension shows up in the search and I think that is different. Can you send a link to A.
Ok thank you.
Can you send the steps, how to remove the old tailpiece and how to install new one?
What tools do I need?
Do I need some kind of sealant and/or washer?
I took out a one piece shower and tub surround from the 80s and in it's place I'm going to install a surround standing shower, no tub. The drain for the shower is in the middle of the floor so I need to get it to where the old tub drain was. The trap needs to go under the drain, I assume, and then I need to get the pipe to where the old tub drain was. I'm going to cut the old P-trap off the pipe and run the pipe to where the p trap is. My question is, does the pipe from the shower drain need to be at a pitch towards the old location or can it be straight. I don't think it will be pitched once it's installed and I'm not sure if that's a requirement
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Started about 1 month ago. Step into shower and after a minute, the water pressure drops off. Turn off water in shower and wait and pressure returns. I am on city water, measured a couple of years ago was @ 85 psi Began to troubleshoot and here is what I did so far.
All faucets suffer during the drop off
3 outside hose bibs, only 2 suffer the drop off, third one no change.
I have a water softner and a whole house sediment filter. Changed the filter out, no difference. Bypassed the water softner and filter no difference.
Drained the water heater, no residue. Shut off the cold water going into the water heater. All fauctes etc now have no water flow with one exception, one outside hose bib. (apparently 2 outside hose bibs are being fed thru the water softner???) Been in this house since new 20 yrs ago.
Looking for suggestions what to do next? Will attempt to rig a pressure meter some where??? Tx
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