Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Strainer for Home

When the water in your kitchen sink  swirls in to the drain, it is entering the sink basket strainer. Sink basket strainers collect food and particles from the sink water. When the basket is filling with refuse, it can be cleaned from the side. Basket strainers are usually present in commercial and or industrial applications.

The top of the Industrial Strainers is visible as a metal  rim which surrounds the sink drain. Below the sink, its metal walls gradually narrow in a basket shape, until they ultimately form a narrow pipe, which interfaces with the sink tail piece. Every so often the basket strainer wears out and begins to leak. When the piece corrodes and begins to leak, it needs to get replaced.

In their sink repair Magic Plumbing video, which can be found at , you can watch one of their service men replacing a basket strainer underneath a kitchen sink in a restaurant. The basket strainers, as the video demonstrates, is that metal piece which fits in to the drain opening of your sink & which connects, on the under side of the sink, to the sink the tail piece.

Next you can either call a plumber or try to do the repair job yourself. in the event you pick to make the repair, you will require to purchase a new strainer basket & tail piece. The tail piece is a short straight metal piece that connects the bottom of the basket strainer to the copper plumbing of the house. The copper pipes won't require to get replaced, in this replacement job.

Next you will want to remove the old basket strainer. The most important thing to keep in mind is lesson number one that plumbers learn in plumbing school.

Once the Industrial Filters basket & tail piece are removed you require to put the new custom fitted tail piece in to the top of the copper piping under the sink. Next, fit the strainer basket in to the drain hole of the sink, from above. The lips of the basket will keep it from falling in to the drain hole, however, before actually inserting the basket, you will require to add a ring of plumbers putty around the underside of the lips of the strainer basket to make a pleasant seal & prevent leaking.

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