THE SINK

How difficult can it be to connect the drains on a new two-sided sink for the kitchen. After all you can safely ASSume that the locations and heights of the existing drain pipes in the wall will work just swell with the NEW sink mounted in NEW cabinets.

WELL,

The horizontal locations are OK - heights not so much so. To make a long story shorter, one pipe was unuseable and both sinks had to be piped to one of the drain pipes. Oh, and since the new cabinets have bottoms that are higher than the old cabinets coming directly out of the wall to a new "P" trap - not enough room.

SO,

Remove the old fitting coming out of the wall and put in an elbow to get some height. The old fitting proved to be a bit stubborn - in fact it broke where it entered the wall - much cursing and grinding ensued.

OH,

Drains for new sink are back further than old sink, so after the turn is made - end of drain from wall will be too far forward. The ensing piping ends up crossing over and under itself - looks like a gerbil tunnell designed by a drunk - but it doesn't leak - at least not yet.

AND,

How many trips did this take to Lowes, Home Depot, the Plumbers Friend and ACE Hardware? I lost track, suffice to say that it may have been cheaper to get a real plumber to do the work.