Sink Piping

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After much deliberation I went ahead and did the piping for the sink today.  The big problem was the drain piping.  The vanity we have has drawers on one side, which would have gotten in the way of the drain pipe where it was, so I had to move it to the left a few inches.  Using a torch I was able to twist the copper T so that it was pointed correctly.  My plan was then to put some copper in, put an elbow on it, and bring it out, nice and easy.   Probably would have worked quite well too, except for the problem that Lowes only had a 10ft piece of 1″1/4 copper pipe, and it was $80 bucks.  Through on top of that the 10$ elbow, and the 5$ threaded adapter, and I was looking at almost $100 just to move a pipe a few inches.  That seemed ridiculous so after a few days of thinking about it with my wife we came up with this solution.  I used a flexible rubber fitting to go from the copper T to a PVC elbow, and then put a nice piece of PVC sticking out.  Ended up only costing about $10, much more reasonable.  I’m not real thrilled with the flexible adapter, but the price is right, and since its on the drain and is easily accessible from the other side if something goes wrong, I figured I’d live with it.

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