Not everyone speaks of plumbing. To make matters even more
complicated, there are some plumbing component terms that are not
self-descriptive at all. When you need to purchase for a piece, call a plumber
or look for something up, it will be simple if you are aware of the names of
those parts being involved.
For example, the bathroom sink had several basic pieces that
may leak, blocked or break. Everything from these is massively available and is
just easy to replace when needed. But you have to know what the things you need
to ask for during shopping of the particular parts.
Basic pieces of the bathroom
Drain Tailpiece
This is the direct area of the pipe
that links to the base of a sink drain fitting. When the sink had the pop up
drain its lever rod of a drain assembly links to the port at the back of a
tailpiece. Normally, the tailpiece connects to a drain fitting with the slip
nut--the threaded ring which may be loosened and tightened by hand or by the gentle
persuasion from the channel-type pliers. Beneath the nut is the tapered plastic
washer which will create the watertight seal.
Drain Pipe
This is connected to the plumbing system of
the household. It is connected to a trap arm with still one more slip-nut
joint. The slip nuts are just what make the sink plumbing maintenance so simple.
Most drainpipes for the bathroom sinks had 1 1/2" in diameter, even though
they may be larger or smaller.
P-Trap
This is composed of two parts: the trap arm or
3b and the U-bend or 3a. These two curved areas of the pipe allow the sink to
be linked, ultimately, into the sewer line. This curved trap is the simple
safety feature which holds the standing water that avoids sewer gasses from uprising
and out of the sink drain. Its U-bend remains bottom is filled with water and
so that gasses cannot pass through. Every time you run the water down a drain, its
old water in its bend is being flushed out and has been replaced with the new
water.
Shut-Off Valves
These are those small valves that are usually
metal but at times plastic, located between the received water supply pipes with
the supply hose or tubes which connect to the tailpiece on the faucet of the sink.
Most have the football-shaped, oval handle that you rotate to close or open the
valve. Also known as shut-off that stops valves that permit you to shut off the
supply of water at the sink, instead of shutting down the water to your entire house.
These are seen in twosome: one valve restrains the hot water; while the other rules
the cold water. Lots of shutoff valves used compression fittings so that they may
be installed on the water pipes and without soldering, however, you can be able
to turn off your water to your house to change the shutoff valve.
Supply Tubes
Coming from the faucet tailpieces of the
sink down the shutoff valves, anyone can see the pair of the narrow supply
tubes. This may be composed of plastic white mesh, braided wire mesh, chrome
copper and solid gray plastics. They are normally linked to the shutoff valves
and tailpieces with attached nuts. The supply tubes failed at times, and it is
not unusual to have to change them. They come in lots.
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