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Old 04-10-2020, 12:22 AM   #1
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Kitchen Sink drain

seems like the flange of the drain on my 21's kitchen sink is a little higher than the bottom of the sink, so it doesn't drain completely, there's like 1/16th inch of standing water around it.

That doesn't seem normal to me... Wondering what I should do to fix, it, take the drain apart, try and press the sink bottom down, then reinstall the flange and drain pipe, trying to get it tighter or something ? its not leaking, or anything.
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Had a similar situation with a bar-sink in the house. Disassembly of the drain revealed an IMO too-thick gasket under the flange. I removed that gasket, bedded the flange directly in a generous bead of clear RTV silicon, tightened it till essentially flush with the surround and wiped-off the squeeze-out.

No more water-ring retained around around the drain, it's been watertight for years.
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Old 04-10-2020, 08:54 AM   #3
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John: Can you first try tightening down the large nut on the threaded collar under the sink? That should act to compress the whole assembly a little more. I reset our leaking sink drain but instead of silicone I used a small bead of plumbers putty. Any excess is pushed out and easily cleaned off. Works great.
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Old 08-15-2020, 12:41 AM   #4
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.... Disassembly of the drain revealed an IMO too-thick gasket under the flange. ....
hah. read on...

so... months later. read up on installing drains in sinks. cleared all the stuff under the sink out of the way, drained the trap into a bowl to be dumped outside, removed the drain from the sink. thank you Escape for using a P trap that has a drain port at the bottom. its all glued together except for the downpipe fitting, and the drain itself.

there was a big flat black rubber washer between the flange on the drain, and the sink. I took that out, cleaned the drain and sink up, packed the underside of the flange with a donut of plumbers putty and reinstalled it, using a proper sink wrench, and cranking down tight on it to squeeze out almost all of the putty, which I wiped off.

There was a paper washer on the drain nut, I carefully left that intact and reused it.

the sink bottom is too flat, and a little water still sits on it and doesn't go to the drain, but no longer is the drain flange 1mm above the sink bottom, now its below the sink level.

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Hi: John in Santa Cruz... That pic looks like it's a candidate for a good dust up with some "Barkeepers friend". Alf
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.... no longer is the drain flange 1mm above the sink bottom, now its below the sink level.
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