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Improper vent installation.
"AES" wrote in message ... | This is totally OT for this group -- except the group contains a lot of | obviously clever people who are professionally interested in aerodynamic | and fluid flows and pressures, pipes, valves, and the like, and maybe | someone will be entertained by the following odd bathroom sink behavior. | | Our newly remodeled bathroom has a circular glass above-counter sink | like a hemispherical glass salad bowl, about 18" in diameter at the top | and 7" deep, with a push down-pop up drain plug in the bottom center, | and a pretty high capacity faucet above it. Standard elbow fitting and | drain pipe going into the wall underneath the sink and counter top. | | With the drain open, turn the faucet on full force: water gets dumped | into the sink considerable faster than it can drain out and the water | level in the sink rises rapidly up to the rim, on the verge of | overflowing, in 20 or 30 seconds. | | At the last second turn the faucet part way off -- down to roughly 50% | of full flow, more or less -- then trim the flow until inflow rate just | equals outflow, so the water level stays just 1/4 inch or so below the | rim. Then leave it in this steady-state condition, and wait. | | For approximately *eight minutes* (by the watch) the resulting situation | remains perfectly stable, with water level hovering just below the | overflow point. Then, all of sudden, water level starts dropping. | | Turn faucet back up to full flow. Water level continues dropping, keeps | dropping faster in fact, until sink is essentially empty, and the full | force input that initially caused the sink to fill now roars down the | drain with only 1/2' or so of water swirling around the drain in the | bottom. This continues as long as I want to watch. | | This doesn't seem to result from just blowing some temporary clog out of | the drain: I've repeated it three times, several hours apart, with | essentially identical behavior. | | I'm at a loss to explain how it happens, except to hypothesize that | maybe there's some point underground and quite a ways further down the | drain where the drain pipe has a long slow rise, then a drop, and in | some way the initial slower flow has to fill the rising section until a | siphon action gets going over the top? | | That doesn't really sound persuasive, however. Anyone have any other | ideas? |
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![]() "Jim Macklin" wrote in message news:Hs3%f.3012$8q.1738@dukeread08... Improper vent installation. Good chance that is the case. The vent is supposed to be in a vertical run of pipe, not in the horizontal, and it is allowing water to have to pull the full cross sectional area of pipe, without air replacing it, and water flowing in the bottom. -- Jim in NC |
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I think a lot of people are going to Home Depot or Lowes and
doing their own plumbing and not following CODE. A qualified plumber can tell pretty quickly what the problem is, but a fix can involve considerable re-work if new vent pipes must be run. -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "Morgans" wrote in message ... | | "Jim Macklin" wrote in message | news:Hs3%f.3012$8q.1738@dukeread08... | Improper vent installation. | | Good chance that is the case. | | The vent is supposed to be in a vertical run of pipe, not in the horizontal, | and it is allowing water to have to pull the full cross sectional area of | pipe, without air replacing it, and water flowing in the bottom. | -- | Jim in NC | |
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![]() "Jim Macklin" wrote I think a lot of people are going to Home Depot or Lowes and doing their own plumbing and not following CODE. A qualified plumber can tell pretty quickly what the problem is, but a fix can involve considerable re-work if new vent pipes must be run. Fortunately, a popup kind of vent is now available and legal (in most cases) and the venting can be had with a minimum or "surgery." You are right about the non-code bit, and also would be surprised at what does pass, even when it is inspected. -- Jim in NC |
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Morgans wrote: some stuff about venting.
I'd believe that is the case. I once had an old, old, oooold house with a kitchen sink that didn't have a vent. And it was a BIG sink. When you pull the plug on that granny, it took the wash rag right with it, and me with both feet in the sink pulling back! The whole sink drained in only 3 or 4 seconds, and gurgled for a while after that. |
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