Kitchen sink has been a bit smelly and started to leak from the silentrap part of the trap. I cleaned the trap and waste pipe and tried it out, same thing. Checked the pipe on the other side as there's a rinser, it was clogged so u cleaned that up too, still leaks. luckily I had bought a spare trap when I replaced this one last year, fitted that, same thing! Outside waste pipe is clear and it drops into a drain which I can see is clear.
The fall from the trap to the waste is poor, the pipe retains quite a bit of water.
I decided to block the silentrap on one of them with milliput epoxy putty, hopefully that will that!
I assume the silentrap is to reduce noise? Will there be an issue with it being disabled? The rinser trap has one too , is this likely to transfer the issue to the other side? Would moving the waste lower on the wall, increasing the fall help? Or perhaps a flexible waste pipe might be easier?
Thanks
The fall from the trap to the waste is poor, the pipe retains quite a bit of water.
I decided to block the silentrap on one of them with milliput epoxy putty, hopefully that will that!
I assume the silentrap is to reduce noise? Will there be an issue with it being disabled? The rinser trap has one too , is this likely to transfer the issue to the other side? Would moving the waste lower on the wall, increasing the fall help? Or perhaps a flexible waste pipe might be easier?
Thanks
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