A functional bathroom

A functional bathroom requires a bathroom sink where you can wash your hands or brush your teeth. In installing a bathroom sink for the first time, here are some installation tips you need to keep in mind as instructed by a bathroom remodeling Houston company.

1.       Before starting the installation process, make sure that all water supply directed to the bathroom is switched off.

2.       Prepare for roughing in your bathroom sink by get the pipes required including hot and cold supply stub outs, transition fittings, shutoff valves, and flexible tubing if possible. Air chambers are also often required.

3.       For a back to back arrangement of bathroom sink, you may use little pipes only. Since bathroom sinks rate low in fixture units, make sure that your unit has little effect on the present efficiency of the drain. If your sink is within critical distance, you may allow it to be wet often. If not, it should be vented in some places.

4.       Measure a clearance from one side of your bathroom sink to the toilet tank and another side to the finished wall. Make sure that the clearance to the toilet tank or finished wall is more than four inches, while the clearance to the tub should not exceed two inches. There should also be a minimum clearance of 21 inches from the sink’s front edge to the wall or any fixture.

5.       To install the shut off valves to your sink, cut at least one and one-half inches on your capped supply lines from the finished wall, allowing an escutcheon and compression of your shut off valve.

6.       Using a cutter wheel, cut the capped supply lines slowly and carefully so that the pipe will not compress or flatten. If you are using a round pipe, expect that the compression nut and ring to tighten.

7.       Assemble the sink faucet according to the instructions provided on its package. After assembly, you are now ready to put the escutcheon, the compression ring, the coupling nut, and the valve on the sink. While holding the valve outlet up, slide it carefully over the compression ring.

8.       Using two crescent wrenches, tighten the coupling nut down onto the valve. You will hear a squeaking sound when the nut has been properly seated to the valve.

9.       Connect the trap to the drain pipe and the drain body.

10.   Restore water pressure and supply and run water from the faucet of the sink into a basin to check if it is already functioning properly or if there is still any leak.

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