Hi All,
I really have no clue about plumbing so go easy on me!
My kitchen sink connects to a pipe on the wall outside which takes the water down into the rain gutter drain (old house).
I noticed yesterday that the pipe coming out of the wall (which then immediately bends to the left and goes down flush to the side of the house) was not sitting flush to the wall any more.
I was able to push it back, but it got me wondering.
How can this pipe be moving? The U-bend under the sink doesn't move when I push and pull the external pipe so to my inexperienced mind it doesn't seem to have any physical connection to the sink waste.
Could it be that the pipe coming from the U-bend goes into a hole in the wall and then just slides inside the external pipe somewhere inside the wall? Is this OK if the smaller pipe goes far enough into the bigger pipe and is on a slope?
There is no visible leak but that wall does a have a history of damp which I thought was due to something else but I'm now wondering if a small amount of water could be seeping into the wall.
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks a lot
I really have no clue about plumbing so go easy on me!
My kitchen sink connects to a pipe on the wall outside which takes the water down into the rain gutter drain (old house).
I noticed yesterday that the pipe coming out of the wall (which then immediately bends to the left and goes down flush to the side of the house) was not sitting flush to the wall any more.
I was able to push it back, but it got me wondering.
How can this pipe be moving? The U-bend under the sink doesn't move when I push and pull the external pipe so to my inexperienced mind it doesn't seem to have any physical connection to the sink waste.
Could it be that the pipe coming from the U-bend goes into a hole in the wall and then just slides inside the external pipe somewhere inside the wall? Is this OK if the smaller pipe goes far enough into the bigger pipe and is on a slope?
There is no visible leak but that wall does a have a history of damp which I thought was due to something else but I'm now wondering if a small amount of water could be seeping into the wall.
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks a lot