Dishwasher Needs Air Gap But Sink Does Not Have Hole How Plus Why To Tie Up Drain Line

Описание: Kung Fu Maintenance shows a dishwasher install that needs an air gap but sink does not have hole how plus why to tie up drain line.
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OK. Every once in a while you run into a situation where you got a sink and installing a dishwasher, and you don't have an air gap. What can you do? You know, an air gap's pretty much necessary, because the dishwasher runs into the garbage disposal or into the sink, and you don't want bacteria from the disposal or from the sink drain to wind up going down into your dishwasher.

And this dishwasher, I still need to mount. It's got the mounting screws that need to go in the top here, and a bit of adjustment, just to make everything line up properly. Adjust the feet, and make everything good here. This one's just been set in place.

But as far down below, let me show you what we've got going on. Oh, man. And the drain line has just been set in place. So we need a clamp there in order to clamp that on. So we can't run this yet.

But if you don't have an air gap, what you can do is tie up the drain line. We don't want that drain line to just go straight in like this, because gravity can draw the water back in, and especially from the drain. Now, there's a couple considerations here.

This one, I've got a pull-out faucet which allows this to pull out, and it's going to pull that out. So we don't want that to bump into our drain line. So that's a consideration there. So we definitely want to position this in a spot that that's not going to happen.

So what I'm going to do here is take the drain line back to right here on the disposal. And again, what that's going to do is make a loop that comes up and over. And it will never fall off, because what I'll use is I'll use this military grade cable tie right here and tie this puppy up.

Again, we're just kind of creating our own little trap here. And we'll leave it loose enough so if we need to do something different in the future, we can. But as you can see, I'm just going around here, taking my cable tie, and tying it up. There we go.

That's really all we need, again, leaving enough room so I can do something different in the future if I need to, and do what we want it to do. And we're all set there. And this, I can just cut this off, and I'll leave myself a little room, just in case I wanted to tighten it up at all, or whatever I needed to do.

But easy enough. If I ever had to replace this, this screw comes loose here. Not a big deal. Everything's good there. That's one way around it, if you did not have an air gap.

This is a stainless steel sink, and cutting through here, you know-- what you want for this is a four-hole sink so you can install a air gap, and that's the ideal situation. But anyway, this is a way around it, if you did not have that.

So now, hooking up the dishwasher here, what we need is a clamp to clamp it on there. And these usually have different sizes to trim to, this part here. This one, I think we won't need to trim that. We'll just put it straight on there.

Get my screwdriver set up here, and I've got my clamp here. I almost wish I had one size larger clamp, but that's going to do it. There we go. That's got a clamp coming there. I'll just tighten that a nice quarter-turn past tight.

We're good to go there. And move our deals in over the top there. Now we can test-run it. Make sure nothing's going to leak on us. Got the hot water line open.

You can see, on the hot side, my particular setup is a 3/8 to 3/8 around here. OK, and that feels a little bit loose. Pays to check these things out. Yeah. This thing's definitely loose.