The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Steve85]

Yeah, I think most of the modern composites are better about the heat. If it's more PVC (like the railing covers tend to be) than true composite, I would be careful.

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From the deck to the kitchen...

It seems our disposal has been leaking for a while. It got jammed the other day and when I did the broom handle trick I noticed the sink mount part was completely loose. Pulled out the stuff from underneath to check it out and found this:





As I was cleaning out, I found two of the three screws that hold the strainer tight to the sink on the at the bottom of the cabinet and the third is just gone. Obviously a shit install from day one. This house is 3 years old.



I used three of these in their place:



After disconnecting the drains I had a bitch of a time getting it out with all the corrosion and crap all over it.





The easy fix would be to just replace the mounting kit but it's always bothered me to have the disposal in the smaller of the two sinks. It's never made sense to me, I need the disposal in the bigger sink where the dishes, pots, and pans are rinsed before being washed or put in the washer. So off to Lowes I went with the plan to rebuild the plumbing from the base of the cabinet all the way up.

I did some test fitting realized I could probably just barely use the existing trap if I just rotated the disposal outlet pipe. I really wasn't in the mood to redo all of the plumbing anyway. This meant different fittings, so off to Lowes I went again.

I got everything cleaned up nice enough, new paper and rubber gasket for the non-disposal side, and plumbers putty to go between the sink and strainers.





Finished set up. You can see just how tight it was, where the 90 from the disposal to the "T" to the trap all have zero pipe between the fittings.



The disposal outlet elbow turned 90 degrees to save some height.



And the return pile 



So far no leaks and it's great having the disposal in the larger sink now!

I need to figure out what I'm going to do with the cabinet base though. With all the plumbing that comes through it, I can't just drop a new piece in. Might have to do some sort of puzzle.