Sink drain placement (x-post from plumbing)
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Toilet bowl stain - x-post from plumbing
Comments (4)Once clean, I don't think you will have any problem with stains. I am 75 and never had a problem. You just have to clean them often and the ones rarely used need to be flushed occasionally and cleaned. I try to keep the use of chemicals to a bare minimum, so I use soap and water for most cleaning. I use cheap dish washing liquid to clean the stools and have been doing that for 2 or 3 years. If I buy shampoo that I don't like I use it to clean the stool. I haven't seen any problems doing that. My neighbor said, "but it's not sanitary", my reply was I don't drink out of it. LOL...See Morex-post with plumbing - Kohler serif or memoirs toilets
Comments (1)Not the exact toilet you were asking about but we just had a Kohler Cimarron installed about 3 weeks ago. It has yet to work. We are waiting on all new parts from Kohler - they were more than willing to send the parts but they are back ordered. If the new parts don't work they did say they would send us a new toilet. They have also offered to pay towards the cost of our plumber because they have spend so much time working on the toilet. We have had to push back our second bathroom remodel a few weeks because of this. We do need a working toilet in the house. Of the 4 Kohler products we ordered...2 were fine (tub and sink faucet)- one doesn't work (toilet) - and one has arrived damaged twice (shower faucet - again parts are backordered). I am less than impressed....See MoreSlow drain in bathroom sink (x-post)
Comments (7)For my reno, they replaced a number of the old pipes with copper, and they had to move the sink pipe over a few inches to accomodate a larger sink; that had to be cast iron. They didn't replace the main pipes that run up and down between floors - just my "off-shoots". The sink ran fine for the first month or two - it's just the last couple of weeks that it got slow... It will make me CRAZY if we have to open the wall to do anything with this since the work was just done!!! It is interesting to me that running very hot water seems to clear it up, but then it gets slow again. What would account for that??? Initially I thought it might be some sort of soap clog that the hot water was melting through, but maybe not pushing all the way down... does that make any sense???...See MoreNew plumbing looks awful and sink does not drain.
Comments (9)it lets a little bit of air move out of the way when gravity pushes water down the drain. This starts the flow of water and helps set up a current (exchange of air and water). Otherwise the drinking straw effect can remain for a long time. In a drinking straw, water is held up on a pillar of air, and the water can only go down the straw if air is removed. In a pipe (much wider than a straw), air and water have to trade places so there needs to be an internal current inside the pipe, where water and air slide past each other on opposing sides (walls) of the pipe. An overflow hole on the side of the pipe an inch below the drain guarantees that air will escape under the pressure of water + gravity. Water, once moving, continues to move; this is momentum, or dynamic inertia. So the moving water forces more air out of the pipe, below the overflow hole....See Moreangie_diy
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