How to install siphon do it yourself Plumbing


Installation of a siphon - the work is so simple that it is specially inviting the masters - this is an extra spending of time and money. Of all the tools, it may be necessary for a screwdriver, and a small flashlight, which can be highlighted with dark places.

Preparatory work

When buying a siphon in the store, it is necessary to check if all the put items are included in the kit. Since plastic siphons are sold in a soft package, you need to check that there are no scratches and other damage that could be formed during transportation. And especially attention should be paid to the burstles on the thread, they should not be.
In addition to the siphon itself, you need to purchase materials for installation:
1. Laying or sealant.
2. Good tape.
3. Screwdriver, preferably not big and flat.

Next need to dismantle an old siphon:
• Substitute a bucket and remove the broken siphon for water together with the sewage liner;
• If the old coupling has become unusable, then it is necessary to replace it with another;

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• Remove dirt from plum and squabble, and plug the pipe with a package or rag.

If you change the old cast iron, which is firmly embedded in cement, then difficulties may arise. Since the cast iron is fragile material, it will have to beat it out of cement with caution. Here you may need a hammer, chisel and a chisel. The debris should not get into the pipe, otherwise it will be completely polluted. If cement fragments still got into the pipe, then it is necessary to delete them with a tweezers or with the help of pliers.

Installing a siphon in the kitchen

The choice of siphon on the kitchen depends on where it is to install it. So, for the washing machine, you will need a siphon with a fitting, and if you need to connect any other technique, such as a dishwasher, then a double fitting will be needed. If you install a double sink, then the siphon is suitably needed double. In new apartments, the siphon is often located, and not down.

Siphon types:
1. Corrugated - these are the most convenient siphons in the installation consist of a tube and release. The main disadvantage in cleansing, they must be completely dismantled.
2. Bottle - the most common siphons, eat in almost every home. Plus, it makes it possible to attach other techniques to himself, and also that it is easy to clean and do not need to dismantle.
3. Pipe - compact siphons, they are installed in the sinks in the bathroom. From disadvantages - water can evaporate from the shutter and give an unpleasant smell.

How to install siphon in the sink

  1. Disassemble manually siphon, then collect it, thus check the thread and the presence of all parts.
  2. Treat a small amount of sealant gasket and threads so that in the future it did not take place.
  3. Siphon with a gasket tightly grip to the plum, look so that there are no gaps.
  4. To keep the siphon with one hand, the second to take the grid with the screw, put the gasket and insert into the drain and scroll the screw. Screw to celebrate completely.
  5. Take a corrugated tube, put the gasket and insert a siphon into the socket and tighten the barshake nut.
  6. In the sealing pipe, place the sealer and insert the socket of the pipe into it.
  7. Open a crane and test siphon. Whether there is no water leakage.

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How to install siphon for washing machine

Siphon with a tap is designed for washing machines. Installation work:
1. Siphons are open and embedded type. Open mounting fasteners:
• On the wall, mark the location of the fastener;
• drill holes;
• fasten the siphon to the wall;
• connect the siphon with a tee using a flexible hose;
• Attach to the washing machine.
2. To install an embedded siphon, you need to make a remission in the wall, which is then hidden under the tile.

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• Perforator make a hole;
• Installation screws to install tap and sewer pipes in the hole;
• Put the siphon with a bend;
• Connect the siphon to the water supply and sewer pipe;
• Cement mortar to handle holes and bore parts;
• Continue the connection of the washing machine.

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Installing a bath with a bath

1. Before mounting the siphon in the bathroom, you need to collect it and make sure all the details are in place and there is no interference to install them. Pay attention to the length and placement of all pipes.
2. Take a metal bezel and consolidate it in the top opening of the bath.
3. Attach the rod to attach the nozzle.
4. With the help of a bolt to attach a drain bowl to the drain hole.
5. Protect the metal bolt, which is in a round plate, and to attach to the hole of the siphon nozzle, which connects the bath and bottle.
6. Bottle fasten to the nozzle.
7. Close of corrugations to connect with a wastewater.
8. Open water and check the quality of the work performed.

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Tip: Carefully watch the seals between the details.

Useful tips:

In such a simple matter, like the installation of siphones, also have its tricks:

  1. Before collecting siphon, you need to carefully examine the instructions for its installation, which, as a rule, is attached to the details. And only then proceed directly to the work.
  2. If you install a siphon for a metal bath or acrylic, then you need a hole for a drain to handle emery paper, so the gaskets will fit the tight.
  3. Before tightening the siphon, make sure that the gaskets are not shifted. You can miss their sealant.
  4. Drain of sewage in the bathroom must be, a maximum of 15 cm from the floor.
  5. The diameter of the drain pipe should be from 5 cm.

Repair of siphon

If the siphon clogged, then it is possible to clean it in several ways:
1. Rinse under hot water, which solurate fat.

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2. If you add to hot water and soda, then the cleaning process will go faster.
3. Use household chemicals to flushing pipes.
4. Take advantage of the vehicle, for this you need to press it to the hole, do it in water, and pull up, repeat a couple of times and so it will pull the clogging.
5. If the above did not help, then you need to remove the bottom stopper, substitute the bucket, take the hook and manually remove the dirt from the knee.
6. See what you can take to be less clogging can make less part of the pipe in a horizontal position.

If the water from the siphon proceeds, then it is necessary:
• Loose siphon with a smear, if there is flowing on the place of dusting with sink;
• If a cork flows, then it is necessary to fasten it tightly;
• Clear all the details that have been repaired, from the past sealant and process new, therefore, the next assembly will be better.

The success of the installation lies as the siphon itself, all parts and accurate work.

 

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