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I've often said that plumbing cannot be done without cursing. I think it is one of the laws of the universe. I did some serious cursing this afternoon.

Remember this?


Well, her identical twin sister finally got installed three feet away on my side of the master vanity. And the faucet didn't give me any trouble. The water hook-ups didn't give me any trouble. The drain did. I could not under any circumstances get the tail pipe separated from the J-trap. Couldn't get the drain flange up above in the sink separated from the tailpipe, either. So after exhausting my arms, exhausting my vocabulary, and having a good cry over it, I decided that I could just keep the old tailpipe and drain flange and replace the rest of it. And it worked out fine. Looks great in fact. Hallelujah.

For those of you who have never spent any time cussing at the pipes under your sink, the tail pipe is the silver thing hanging down and the J-trap is the white J-looking thingy.

And can I just say that those J-traps get mighty nasty inside. Good thing I have a strong stomach, cuz I.C.K. I shed like crazy and tend to wash it all down the sink, so my hair was most of what I cleaned out. I think most drains would benefit from having the J-trap cleaned out or replaced regularly. They get mighty clogged with crap, especially in bathrooms. It's easy to replace one, really, as long as somebody didn't somehow weld your J-trap to your tailpipe. :(