Installing A New Bathroom Sink Drain

Add clips to secure the sink if required then add the faucet by screwing it on clockwise.

Installing a new bathroom sink drain. By the time you install a vanity cabinet and drop the sink into it the rough in plumbing for the drain should be done. Connect the drain parts push the pop up drain tailpiece assembly up through the drain opening from under the sink as high as you can. While holding the drain piece in place fit the drain ring into the opening from the top of the sink and thread the ring onto the drain tailpiece as far as you can by hand.

For a new sink installation you ll typically have a piece of pipe sticking out of the wall. Learn how to replace it. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink.

Since my pipes are abs i m using abs cement. Before you install a bathroom sink turn off the water supply and remove the old sink. Apply firm pressure all around the top of the flange to seat it securely in its bed of putty.

In order to connect the p trap you ll need a trap adapter that needs to be glued onto the pipe in the wall. Set the new drain into place inside the sink basin. Insert the bottom of the drain into the open drain hole.

Does your sink have a pop up drain. I simply swab the inside of the trap adapter with some cement and do the same for the outside of the drain making sure to fully coat both surfaces then push on the adapter all the way in giving it a slight twisting motion roughly a quarter.