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kakan

The loo is much simpler to fix.

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OriginalGriff

Yeah. But there is a reason why they stay full of water - it keeps the smells on the waste side... Not a job I enjoy doing. You do realise that there are special plumbers spanners for working inside sinks and baths? Think they are called basin wrenches[^]

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The professional plumbers are obscenely costly, US$70 just to come and take a look. More if you actually want them to do anything . . . and it was a 'professional' plumber that put in the crappy sink-trap and water cutoff valves to begin with. Work I've done myself (e.g., other bathroom) uses parts of a quality that does not result in giving me more work. Note that the trap would have broken, anyway, as it was essentially rotted through due to its poor quality. This would have added substantially to the cost. I'll replace it for a few dollars with one made built to last (and WITH a drain plug).

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Revenge: Create free websites for all the local plumbers. Tell 'em they are DIY maintenance and then walk away.

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OriginalGriff wrote:

it keeps the smells on the waste side

True enough! Pepé Le Pew[^] smells of roses in comparison. :) That's why I prefer the wall mounted drainage pipes over the floor mounted ones. With the wall mounted ones the pipe protrudes from the wall and so it's easy to put a lid on it to keep the fumes from poisining the air. *choke* *cough* With the floor mounted ones it is way to easy to drop something into it, which will be over proportionately hard ( costa-lotta) to retrieve. :doh: How do they say? Holy crappola, shit happens! Cheers!

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Chris Losinger

it seems that every time i take the lid off the toilet tank, i've just guaranteed myself at least three trips to the hardware store and three days of agony. next house: outhouses only; not toilets.

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Joan M

Thanks it was the sink... it could have been obfuscated waters to be debugged... :~

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Yeah - but they need a handle and it's all too close to the wall and they need space to get around the pipe (inside the pedestal)(off center on wrong side and too narrow, anyway). It turns out that, even had I a magic wrench to fit, it wouldn't have done any good on the rotted "nut flange" holding the drain onto the sink. I always expect plumbing jobs to go badly.

Steve Mayfield

Yea, just close the door and use the other bathroom ;)

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