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Prepare Air Gap for Installation

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Do I Need A Dishwasher Air Gap?...My States Plumbing Code says YES!!

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What happens here

Reassemble the air gap by inserting the internal plastic pieces back into the main body, ensuring they snap into place. The demonstrator advises against setting the final depth until the air gap is in place. For a typical stainless steel sink (like an 18-gauge), only a few threads need to protrude below the sink surface to secure the nut. He recommends placing the rubber gasket *above* the sink surface, underneath the chrome cover, to create a better seal and prevent water from leaking into the cabinet. This placement stops water at the surface, rather than letting it seep underneath if the gasket were placed below.

Goal: This step involves reassembling the air gap components and determining the correct depth for installation in the sink hole, ensuring proper sealing with the gasket.

Tools and materials

  • Dishwasher Air Gap (components)

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If you guys like the content, please subscribe to the channel. We're just trying to help people and we really hope that we're doing that. I'll put a link to the description box below for the material and the tools I use. Okay, so first thing I'm going to do is just get this off of here. Pills off very easy. I like to take this and actually like to put this on here first, right? It's better to put just one of these on than to try to put two of these on while you're underneath there, right? Space underneath the sink is very cramped. So that just take a six and one. Pop this out and you're going to be able to just get it in here and tighten this bad puppy up. I'll get it hooked up there and now and you'll feel this when it gets snug, you'll feel it. Okay, so this is definitely a tight space, but then we'll take this, we'll stick this right up in this hole. We'll get this put up through here. Like I said, I like to have that gasket up top. Get this piece put up right here and then that piece is put on. So it's up. Pop that right there on and now your air gaps installed. All we got to do is go down the bottom again and connect everything up. So next we're going to take the dishwasher drain off right here.

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