Leaking kitchen sink

[mark306]

Hi,

So I'm currently abroad and my place is renated out on Airbnb. A guest messaged me last night to say there was a small water escape in the kitchen.

I suspect one of the fittings has come undone.

I have two quesitons.
I know it's hard to tell, but looking at the photo do you suspect (like me) the leak is from the join circled ?
Is this simply a case of hand tightening the joint or should I get a plumber is to take a look and maybe apply glue etc ?

 

[Elkato531]

Looks like it may have slipped. The joint will need to be dismantled to ensure that the sealing ring is correctly located on the spigot. Then do it up nice and tight by hand.

 

[Burnerman]

Is that a 'truth' mark where the pipe used to be?
John

 

[mark306]

Maybe I'm being an idiot but how does a threaded part like that come undone? (Maybe just the pressure of the water).
I'll get my friendly neigbour to take a look and save me £150 a plumber will no doubt charge me

 

[HERTS P&D]

Once you have fixed it, stick a jam jar under the trap to hold it up.

Andy

 

[Madrab]

Those (Ikea?) fittings are notoriously bad, that adjustable height pipe can just slip or can be knocked out of the pipe quite easily when they get old or misaligned (it's either the pic or the outflow pipework is very well fitted and is rising). Ideally it needs the nut loosened, clean the yellow sealing ring and pipe/fitting and then it's pushed back into the fitting and retightened.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Maybe I'm being an idiot but how does a threaded part like that come undone? (Maybe just the pressure of the water).
I'll get my friendly neigbour to take a look and save me £150 a plumber will no doubt charge me

It looks as if it may have rotated at the elbow on the left, where it passes out through the back panel. Once it's refixed, maybe add some support or a bracket close to the trap, to prevent that happening?

 

[Madrab]

It looks as if it may have rotated at the elbow on the left

Rotating Solvent weld? Unless, of course, there is a loose compression coupler in behind the cabinet, that it's all attached to.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Rotating Solvent weld? Unless, of course, there is a loose compression coupler in behind the cabinet, that it's all attached to.

The solvent weld, might have been allowed to set, with the horizontal under downwards tension, or the pipe might have been given a knock - it doesn't take much, to push a compression joint off.