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How can I stop bubbles to come up from the P-trap in the bathroom sink?
I just changed the faucet in the bathroom. For some reason soap bubbles will rise and come out from the area where the p-trap connects with the pipe that comes down from the sink. This did not happen before. This connection is not screwed, the straight pipe just goes into the p-trap and there is a small rubber seal that I think is supposed to keep this from happening. Any ideas? This was my first faucet change and everything else seemed to work fined.
Public Comments
- You probably bumped the trap and fittings when installing the faucet. There should be a lock nut holding the straight piece into the trap, or it may have been glued. Either way, you'll need to replace it.
- . This sounds like the rubber/plastic seal/ring is loose or damaged. It'll only get worse. And there must be a large nut that tightens the pipes together? That's why they invented 'pipe wrenches'. You might have cross-threaded the nut or not tigntened it quite enough. And that rubber seal could be twisted. Try redoing all of this. Ya'know if it was easy, plumbers wouldn't charge $60/hr. .
- There definitely SHOULD be a nut on it... the nut uses the rubber seal you are speaking of to form a compression seal which keeps the pipe from moving and/or leaking. So are you saying that the p-trap does not have threads on it???? If so, I've never seen that. If it does, pull the straight pipe back out, slip the proper size nut on it, then slip in the rubber seal (narrow end facing towards the p-trap), reinsert straight pipe in to p-trap, slip rubber seal down to the p-trap/staight pipe connection point, then slip down the nut and tighten.....
