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Remove Accordion Style P-Trap

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ILLEGAL Bathroom Sink Plumbing Repair!

What happens here

Place a bucket beneath the p-trap to catch any water in the trap. Unscrew the P-trap from the drain and tailpiece. Examine the accordion-style P-trap and note the discoloration from the debris buildup.

Goal: Remove the existing, illegal P-trap.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable wrench — loosening the slip nuts, Bucket used for Catching water

What they say

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[Music] okay this is the p-trap and this is what we're gonna be changing out today this actually isn't a legal peach rap because of this corrugation right here this kind of accordion effect that just brings it up to where it needs to go you can actually see if we get up closer to it you can see the discoloration and the pipe right here that actually is inside and that's build-up so once we pop that apart we'll take a look and you can actually see where debris is collecting in there this is a no-go the reason why they did this and made this this easy was because they didn't put the right fittings back here had they not put a straight fitting right here and either put a 22 degree to kind of bring this a little more over this way or a 45 you would have been able to catch this drain right here no problem so what we're gonna have to do is we're actually gonna have to cut this out you can see that they actually put Street fittings in here one after the other from a two-inch down to an inch and a half so we're gonna have to go ahead and we're actually just gonna ream this out and I'll show you a cool plumbing tool today to help you do that call the socket saver and it's just going to save us a lot more work okay so the first thing we'll do is we'll just put a bucket under here to catch some water get this trap popped off so if you look right down in there you can see those corrugations and you can see that all along those corrugations it's just kind of catching things which you do not want that once again don't use this illegal bad kind of all that moved out it's time to switch the camera

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