Under Sink Leak? Try This $8 Fix

I came over to my neighbor's house. They said they had a leak in their kitchen sink. I let them borrow my air mover. The whole bottom of the cabinet is it was a little bit jacked. This is one of those jobs not going to require a lot of tools or parts. So, come along. Let's get to fixing. My neighbor kind of thought it was where the faucet connected right there. You can see how rusty it is, but I'm like, I don't think that's your problem, man. And that's when I noticed this right here. This pop metal nut right here has just blown out. It's actually pretty hard to find a brass nut. This is chrome over brass. I went to three stores to find this. And then this is still not as thick as what I would like. Some gloves. Hopefully we don't have to pull water out of the trap. We'll see. Go grab a pair of these pliers. Uh, no. Now that you see that just broke right off of there. You get back over here. You can just see that is trashed. pull out a little mini hack right here. And we're just going to cut. You don't want to go too deep in that hole, but you want to get it close to the threads without hitting the threads. And then get a screwdriver in there. There we go. And get that popped. There we go. And now, let me just get that down. So, we can flip this P trap over right here. Oh, and look at that. I think that washer sealed janky. That is what caused the problem. Unscrew this nut right here. We'll be able to pull this tail piece right here out without having to remove the P trap. We'll be able to reuse this. We're going to clean this out. Let's make sure that this is flat. It's good. Looks like it is. Maybe we'll hit it with the knife. And I just like to take those little burrs off. Anything flat and smooth, right? Make it how you can make it. Just want to go right around the edge of this. Get that all nice and smooth. Once you add this gasket right here to the inside of this, that's what's going to seal up to the bottom of this basket strainer. You want it to be looking as good as you can get it. Yeah. Good to go. Now you want to grab some kind of a wire brush. It's a old copper fitting brush here. And you just want to make sure this is going to go on there. And now we should just be ready to reassemble here. That way this goes up in there. Get your other pieces on here. Okay. Just get that put right back down in here. We've got this little washer right here. I like to use a little Mega Lock on this. Okay, this is the part that seals. Mega lock is good for plastic and metal parts. You're going to go bottom side and top side with this. All right. Because it's going to seal both top and bottom well. All right. Just make sure that that is set down in there flush. But it is good there. You can slap this over into place. Bring it up. Just get this started. Get that as tight as you can go by hand. I'll grab my channel locks, my pliers, and I'm going to tighten this up. It's not going to go too much past handtight, but it's going to go a bit. I pushed this tail piece all the way down into this peach wrap joint right here. There was more than enough play to bring that up like a quarter of an inch and it's still in that socket. You don't have to worry about that. That's the one nice thing about slip joint stuff in my opinion like this is you get a little bit of play right here. Okay, this just needs to be handtight. Turn it on and see what we're looking at here. seal that sink off. We're going to flush this a couple of times. Fill and drain it. Okay. All right. Draining good. And there is no leaks there. Okay. Everything is back to not leaking, which is great. Uh they are hooked up. A simple little leak over time caused a little bit of damage, right? I do not like how in the new construction phase, you come up through the bottom of the cabinet like because that eliminates actually having a sealed surface. That means water is going to get down in there no matter what. All right, folks. There we go. Quick little fix. Got my neighbor back up and rolling. No more leak underneath the sink. The water has stopped flowing out of the drain. Little bit of a messy job. We got it taken care of. Thank you very much.