Repair Leaking Sink Drain Trap

Tightening the connection often stops the leak.

Repair leaking sink drain trap.

Sometimes the sink drain doesn t line up perfectly with the waste outlet in the arm and because of the offset the p trap connections aren t straight. On a metal trap tighten them hand tight plus about a half turn using slip joint pliers to grip the nut. If you can t stop leaks by tightening these off kilter connections you may have to disassemble the entire trap and rebuild it with extra lengths of pipe to make the connections straight. Unless your bathroom sink drain system is unusually complicated there are only two or three points of connection on the trap assembly that can leak.

Put on your nitrile or vinyl gloves to protect your hands from contaminated drain water. Place the bucket underneath the leaky pipes. Remove the old drain pipe remove the old drain assembly from the top down. How to repair a leaking sink drain trap if the leak is occurring at one of the joints between pipes try tightening the slip nuts.

The p trap is the curved section of pipe found under the sink and it can be the leaking pipe under the kitchen sink that you ve been searching for. It s designed to keep foul smells from coming up through the drain but over the course of time debris like food pieces and other elements dropped down the drain can clog up. Use the pliers to unscrew any stubborn slip nuts. Disconnect the sink trap from the drain coming from the sink by loosening the slip nut connector.

Loosen the nut without disconnecting the sink trap. No need to call the handyman in this plumbing tips video we show you how to install kitchen sink drains. Plumbers tape works with any fitting needing a high quality seal ensures a secure and tight seal plumbers putty flexible stretchable compound molds easily will not harden crumble crack or shrink. Use a pair of channel lock pliers to loosen the slip nut that attaches the sink trap to the main drain line coming from the wall.

Remember the drain trap the u shaped bend will have a small amount of standing water so have your bucket or bag handy.