How to put-up the Plumbing for your Kitchen Island Sink

The plumbing for the kitchen island sink is not as easy as placing the sink against a kitchen wall. You do not have the comfort of hiding the vents and the drain pipes in the wall. All things needed to be contained in that island itself.

Whereas it can require a bit added preparation and the know-how, putting up the plumbing for the island sink is likely for most owners who owns the basic plumbing tools with some of the their little experience.

Choose between the Island Vent and the Air Admittance Valve

You will need the means to put off the sewer gases from appearing the pipe and then stinking up the kitchen. In doing this, you will need either the vent that is going beneath the floor or the air admittance valve or AAV. This valve will work through the opening when the wastewater went down the pipe, putting off the sewer gases from avoiding.
If you are connecting the dishwasher to the current island sink, the AAV can be over-worked. And so, when you will run the bigger volumes of water beneath the sink regularly, take into consider the vent instead of the valve. However, for lots of homeowners, this AAV is the latest way to go.

Plan the lane of the pipe

Begin the preparations through running the 2-inches drain pipe under your floor from the main waste stack of the kitchen to the cabinet that houses the island sink. Be sure that it is the direct path potentially before you physically take out the flooring to lay its pipe.

Once you have brought the pipe to the cabinet that housing an island sink; you will need to enlarge the pipe up until around 5 inches beneath the base of the sink.

Installation of the drain:

1. Place in the drain of the sink and the tailpiece which will come off the drain. The P-trap assembly can be attached to a tailpiece. Connect the PVC extension pipe into the other side of a P-trap.
2. Shift a P-trap around so that this trap and the extension will touch a drain pipe. It is where you are going to mark the connection of the 2 pipes.
3. Use the hacksaw in cutting a drain pipe, wherein you can mark an intersection with an extension pipe. Take out any burrs by using sandpaper.
4. Position the sanitary tee together with a sweep that is facing up and an outlet that points towards a P-trap. This outlet should be of similar size as with the extension pipe. You have to use PVC cement in attaching the sanitary tee in the drain pipe.
5. Connect an extension pipe and the tee. This extension pipe can be a bit long to fit in the outlet of a tee; if that is the case, then, you may choose to cut it so it will fit. Use the PVC cement in attaching the two. You will still have a top of this tee open.