The kids have been helping us get our entire house plumbed for water! My son-in-law and I have been building block cellar walls. Neither one of us has ever laid any blocks, so it is kind of a joke, although he is working very hard at it, and learning at my expense! We are doing okay, but really slow. My other son-in-law who lives 3 hours away from here had laid blocks on construction jobs before, and he is coming next weekend, and will help as well as his wife, our daughter, will help also, and I am sure the walls will go up faster! Ice froze on Scooby's water this morning, so we need to get it finished. I built a little room in about 3 hours to protect our water system, pump and pressure tank. I put up quick block walls, threw blankets over the pump, and enclosed the top with some spare lumber, so that part it safe, but the pipe coming to it and going to the house is not safe, only I would not lose as much if that froze like I would if the pump and pressure tank froze. So the kids are coming to the rescue before everything freezes and busts!
The plumbing leaked under my sink, so I took it apart to fix it. It fell apart under the house as they only stuck it in about 1/32nd of an inch. They only had about 1/32 of and inch together under the sink is the reason it was leaking. I crawled under the house, put it together as it should have been, came up into the house and found that it was about 2 inches or more short of coming together. They were tired when they finished last time, and I think they cut the pipe short and they were trying to make it work anyway. Now I have a 2 inch gap with a bucket underneath. Most of the waste water runs down through the trap and out the pipe, and now I can literally watch the water run down the drain. Not everyone has the privilege of watchin water running into the trap below the sink!
I found enough parts to fix it, so all I have to do is cut the pipe, glue in a short pipe and 2 couplers, glue them together below the trap, and it will all fit perfectly!