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Installing the Farm Sink in the Kitchen

The Kohler "Dickinson" sink in the Quechee home's kitchen has the look and feel of an old-fashioned farm sink. It's enameled cast iron and it seems to sit lower and has an enameled front plate to it. The deep sink presents some unique problems when installing the garbage disposer. Plumbing contractor Doug Buchanan has already installed the basket strainer for the disposer. Doug gets under the sink and slips the disposer into position. There's a gasket there that holds it into place with a clip. Next he needs to modify the S-trap to accommodate the lower sink. Once modified it attached with a nylon washer. The last step is to attach the dishwasher line to the disposer as all the waste from the dishwasher needs to go through the disposer.

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Installing the Farm Sink in the Kitchen

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" Our kitchen sink looks old-fashioned and it kind of, it has that sense of an old farm sink. They called it Dickinson by Kohler and it's cast iron and enamel cast iron. And the interesting things about it is that it seems to sit lower and it has the an armored front plate to it, and what I liked about it is if you look where the countertop kind of meet the sink when you're working on the countertop, you just kind of wash everything right into the sink area. But, it's a deep sink, and when you're installing a garbage disposer in a deep sink, well, that presents the next special problem right?"

" Yeah. We've done already, I'm already installed the basket strainer for it, you just pulls off itself."

" Right."

" You go down here; we've got your disposal off [unk]."

" Basically, this flips and flies right into place right?"

" Exactly."

" Yeah."

" And there's a gas strip that hold it in place with the split."

" Alright. Because the disposer sits lower, you had to modify the traditional s-trap here right?"

" Yes, I have."

" And basically, just cut a couple of length to make up the difference at a regular PVC and now this get cemented onto the trap components. This is the solvent that cleans it right?"

" Yeah."

" So that when you bring the actual cement into play, you've got a good chemical bond."

" Exactly."

" Now, that's just tightens right? There's no----"

" It's the compression setting----"

" Right."

" with a nylon washer in there."

" So, there's no adhesive use of any sort. One thing you wanna keep in mind is you wanna have the window open when you're doing this because the fumes can make you dizzy. Alright, so that's it for the trap. What's the next step?"

" The last step is to connect your waste disposer over the dishwasher line to the disposal unit."

" [unk] yeah, and that's important because all of the waste from the dishwasher needs to go through the disposer."

" Yes, it does."

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