Normally, it’s the pressurized stuff you have to worry about when plumbing. You know the issues: water spraying from a loose brass fitting, a righteous leak from a valve that failed to seat properly, or a flexible hose that gives up the ghost.
Well,
I don’t do normal.
My
problems tend to live on the PVC connections on the gravity-operated drain side
of the equation. True to form, when I ran water down the drain of the new sink
I plumbed for our new vanity, the plastic P-trap I’d just twisted into place
leaked.
Not
a little. More like runoff from a metal roof during a heavy rain. I gave the
connections one more careful wrench crank and tried again.
Still
a steady leak.
When
I tore everything apart for a second time, I found that one of the pipes had a
slight manufacturing defect at the connection joint.
Out
with the new, back in with the old. We now have a new sink, with seasoned
plumbing back on the job.
I
knew I had a firm reason for becoming an electrician.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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