Repair Bathroom Drain Pipe

After all your drain line runs from your home all the way to the nearest.

Repair bathroom drain pipe.

Drain pipe repair cost factors. When repairing a section of pipe in an existing run don t try to cement solvent weld all the new couplings. One side is bigger than the other so it fits several sizes. You can t flex them enough to slide on that last fitting and get it to seat fully.

Inspect the leaking area carefully to determine if a fitting is loose and causing a drip. If you struggle and the drain won t turn move up to a wrench of pair of channel locks like i did. The average drain pipe repair cost is 549 with most homeowners spending between 500 and 1 150. A sewer line camera inspection costs 350 and is not included in the 600 average repair cost.

Donations appreciated click in upper right corner info circle. The p trap is curved into a loop or j bend. Your plumber can use a camera to locate the source of the damage if it s not obvious. It is leaking down into my bathroom cabinet and getting everything wet.

Most drain systems use rigid pipes fairly large in diameter. Unlike an individual tile it s hard to find the source a drain issue. Insert the drain key into the drain. The faucet works great but the drain pipe is leaking under the sink.

The cost to repair your drain pipe will depend on a few factors. Point a bright light at the sink plumbing. It s quite easy to do. Tighten loose couplings to.

Turn the water on and watch the pipes beneath the sink. Rotate the key counter clockwise with a screw driver through the body of the key. Loosen the nut that secures the sink basket. Replacing a drain pipe could require as much as 2 800 depending on how difficult it is to reach.

A sink basin drains into a waste assembly at the bottom of the sink and the waste assembly then connects to a p trap. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink. How to repair a leaky drain pipe under a sink. Learn how to replace it.

The leak is coming from where the plastic nut on the drain pipe meets the bottom of the bathroom sink.