Sink smell and breeze coming from sink after plumber fitted a new sink

Rosa_Damascena

MalMonroe said:

NibblyPig said:

Thanks that is what I thought, is it easy to fix or do I need to get the plumber out again to sort it out?

NO. Get the plumber out again to fix the mess they've made of this! (Is my advice . . . ) You've paid for it, you want it doing properly. Don't let useless work-people get away with things like this.

On the plus side, people like me learn from this illustrated kind of demonstration shoddiness.

macman

Someone capable of that incredibly basic error really shouldn't be advertising plumbing services....are you sure he actually has any formal plumbing qualifications?

molerat

That's a rookie DIY mistake, no way a "plumber" has done that.

NibblyPig

Yep. Lots of good reviews on google. It's just the curse of this house.

Jeepers_Creepers

If he hadn't used solvent weld fittings for the departing waste, it would have been a 2 minute job to sort - as said above, the U trap is essentially 180o out!

(But solvent fittings are much neater and reliable).

Your job, Nibbly, is not to snigger when he realises what he's done.

grumbler

Jeepers_Creepers said:

If he hadn't used solvent weld fittings for the departing waste, it would have been a 2 minute job to sort - as said above, the U trap is essentially 180o out!

The part in the middle is definitely solvent-weld and will need cutting where it connects to the drainer.  And even this may not work as the change in the distance can be bigger.

ETA: Even the horizontal pipe at the bottom is solvent-weld, so everything has to be redone.

NibblyPig

Jeepers_Creepers said:

If he hadn't used solvent weld fittings for the departing waste, it would have been a 2 minute job to sort - as said above, the U trap is essentially 180o out!

(But solvent fittings are much neater and reliable).

Your job, Nibbly, is not to snigger when he realises what he's done.

What's a solvent weld fitting? I thought maybe I could fix it myself if it was just like lego...

My job is to stress out about if he's actually going to get back to me and fix it...

and if it will be a bodge job

grumbler

NibblyPig said:

Jeepers_Creepers said:

If he hadn't used solvent weld fittings for the departing waste, it would have been a 2 minute job to sort - as said above, the U trap is essentially 180o out!

(But solvent fittings are much neater and reliable).

Your job, Nibbly, is not to snigger when he realises what he's done.

What's a solvent weld fitting?

This is 40mm.

greyteam1959

Solvent weld in simple terms = glue.
Silly thing is the guy has to come back & fix this at his cost.
Literally a few pence in parts but what a waste of his time over such an elementary mistake.

NibblyPig

The resolution.


One thing I think I need to do is attach the dishwasher hose to the underside of the worktop, apparently it's supposed to go all the way up then down? At the mo it just loops in a circle then goes through the wall and into the plumbing on the right of the picture.

I am not really sure why it needs to do this but it's what I read online. The instructions with the dishwasher are a rather vague set of diagrams with no words presumably to save them £100 paying a translator for each language (thanks bosch) but don't specifically indicate that you need this...