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Posted by Al on May 30, 2008, 4:10 pm
Pipedown wrote:
> I'm sure everyone reading this is screaming, "then don't pour the fat down
> the drain"
>
> Even if the greese does not clog the drain in your house, it can and dous
> cause backups in the municipal sewer system. Call city hall and they will
> encourage you not to do it as well. I often see short articals in my city
> newspaper explaining how greese dumping is bad for the city.
>
> I don't fry much so the cup a month I dump is not a problem but it sounds
> like your dumping a lot more than that. If you insist, you need to run the
> hot water a lot longer than you would think to flush the greese all the way
> to the street before it thickens or pools. Else it will accumulate on the
> walls of your drain pipe requiring a snake to ultimately clear it. If you
> have a cleanout near the kitchen sink on the outside of your house, you
> should run a garden hose down it every so often to act like a snke to clear
> the debris.
>
> WRT a dishwasher, It is the normal practice to connect the drain to either a
> spot on the garbage disposer or to a sanitary tee before the P trap but you
> also need an air gap before it, If the drain clogs, the dishwasher water
> will flow out the air gap overflow into the sink basin instead of the
> connection.
>
>
>
>
>> Every so often my kitchen sink clogs up from fat / grease residue from
>> frying and the
>> like. I clear it with boiling water but it is a pain when it happens.
>>
>> What I want to do is route my dishwasher drain through my sink drains to
>> get a good
>> soapy water flush through every day.
>>
>> MY sink P trap is at the right end of the double sink with the dish washer
>> on the
>> left side. So I thought I could just Tee in on the left end in order to
>> flush all the
>> lines.
>>
>> Anyone see any problem with what I want to do??
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Thanks for the response.
Al
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