Bill

I see from time to time where some plumber has hard piped a trap under the kitchen sink. I never done this. I cant remember the code on it, but I prefer to have a slip nut trap so that it can be taken apart if need be.

I saw Canadian Mike Holms allows his plumbers to do this and he is supposed to be the "Do It Right" guru!

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Superplumber

Hard piping makes no sense to me. WTF ya gonna do when Momma drops here wedding ring in there.

SlickRick

I don't see any benefit hard piping a sink trap. Tubular has always worked fine. I hard pipe commercial kitchen sinks, but that's all.

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LEAD INGOT

I've also seen his plumber use 30/34 inside of the house and sweat stops onto a copper stub 1 1/2" away from pex. Maybe something didn't get synched up in post, but it sure looked wrong.

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bartnc37

You could have the geniuses who did my house. They used glue in tubular traps. The have compression connections at the the trap itself but glue into adapters coming out of the wall. Of course the adapters are tight to the hub, guess the old hub cutter is gonna be getting a workout when i start changing faucets

GREENPLUM

Youre gonna call a plumber to get it out.

pauliplumber

The only time I've ever had to hard pipe a trap (trap made up of 90's) is if I needed to have a deep seal as a result of the drain being roughed too high. Very rare though.

Ron

Tubular is the way to go, only place to hard pipe under sinks is in a commercial setting.

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TheMaster

My folks have had a 2" glue up sch 40 p trap for 17 years...guess what? Its never had to be removed...why would it other than a mistake like dropping somthing down it? I've had a 2" trap under my sink for the past 10 years...guess what? I've never had to remove it? What if it cloggs in the trap due to some idiot cramming my disposal full of food???? Well thats what a sawzall is for...you cut it a few inches from the wall,disconnect the tubular tailpieces and take it out and clean it.....reinstall it with a solvent weld coupling or a shielded mission band. If you dont want to cut it out you can remove the basket strainer and run a cable in there and then reinstall a basket strainer. If its installed right and used right theres no reason to ever remove the trap.....my sink dont clog and I've been loaded before and dumped 20lbs of crawfish down it.

Ron

Tubular, loosen up slip joint nuts, trap the trap, no cutting needed, put it back together, no glue no mess, don't cost me more parts. no worries, I have never had to unclog my since and I have been in my house for 15 years, it is all tubular.

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