Doesn't your sink discharge over the side?

Cheers MC

Seahag wrote:

Bingo! I just read your message to Bill and the light came on!

Thanks.

Seahag
(and to think I used to be a plumber...)


Simple Simon wrote:


There is only one solution to your problem.

Get under there and install a trap or have
your man do it.

"Seahag" wrote:

Donal wrote:

"Seahag" wrote:

It's slightly tolerable when we put a
garden hose down it for 20 minutes, but this ain't right.

Have you tried bleach?

Yeah, among other things. It's a miracle I didn't kill the critters!

Yes it does, but a trap would ease the bend on the hose and hold a little
water so general smells wouldn't float back up to get'cha!

Seahag

The_navigator© wrote:

Doesn't your sink discharge over the side?

Cheers MC

Seahag wrote:

Bingo! I just read your message to Bill and the light came on!

Thanks.

Seahag
(and to think I used to be a plumber...)


Simple Simon wrote:


There is only one solution to your problem.

Get under there and install a trap or have
your man do it.

"Seahag" wrote:

Donal wrote:

"Seahag" wrote:

It's slightly tolerable when we put a
garden hose down it for 20 minutes, but this ain't right.

Have you tried bleach?

Yeah, among other things. It's a miracle I didn't kill the critters!

Seahag wrote:

Yes it does, but a trap would ease the bend on the hose and hold a little
water so general smells wouldn't float back up to get'cha!

No, a trap will form a nice environment for more smelly critters. There is no
reason whatever to put a trap on any boat plumbing.

DSK

DSK wrote:

Seahag wrote:

Yes it does, but a trap would ease the bend on the hose and hold a little
water so general smells wouldn't float back up to get'cha!

No, a trap will form a nice environment for more smelly critters. There is no
reason whatever to put a trap on any boat plumbing.

DSK

I think you could make an argument for a trap if you are using a holding tank,
I'd rather have some of the nasty gasses that form in a holding tank choose
to exit the system via an outboard vent than the interior sink drains.

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:

I think you could make an argument for a trap if you are using a holding tank,
I'd rather have some of the nasty gasses that form in a holding tank choose
to exit the system via an outboard vent than the interior sink drains.

If you had a straight gravity flow into th eholding tank with no valves or
anything, you could make a case for a trap. Personally I would think at least a
check valve ought to be in there.

DSK