Plumber needed on short notice

[Crazy Flamer]

So I am having granite countertops up in on Friday morning, and my sales rep just informed me I would need to remove my sink before they come in and do the countertops.

Is this hard to do? I know nothing about plumbing and am wondernig if there is anyone here who knows of a plumber who can come in between now and Friday morning to do a quick 20 minute job.

[Prototype]

When we had an issue causing a leak in our basement, I went through the yellow pages, and called a few places that had the BBB logo on their advert. I called around 9PM at night, and they came out next day.

I wish I remembered what the name of the company that came out to help us was, cause they were very good, and not a household name.

[redforever]

Removing is not hard, reinstalling is not that easy.

Most granite companies usually offer a plumbing service that you can arrange for through them, is extra cost, but then they do all the arranging, it is done timely and you are not without a sink for any period of time.

And I do not know if you are getting a new fixtures or not, but most granite companies sell sinks and taps as well.

[REDVAN]

Punctual Plumber is usually on time. haha

[onetwo_threefour]

It should be a super easy DIY job as far as I'm concerned. You need to put a bucket under the trap (the U-bend under the sink) and unscrew the trap using a large wrench. You then need to shut the water off to the sink. Normally, there will be shutoffs under the sink itself so you don't have to shut the water to the whole house off. If you can't find the shutoff valves, you may want to get a plumber involved, as he may have to hunt for them or shut water off at the main shutoff, which is usually located wherever water comes into your house. The reason I suggest a plumber in that case is that you will probably want to get the plumber to install shutoffs at the sink. (By the way the shutoffs may look like little tap handles with pointy oval handles, or like little levers, or in really old or home-done plumbing, like a hose tap. I had one condo where the shutoffs in the bathroom require you to stick a flat head screw driver in to a little tube sticking out the side of the pipe to turn them, but normally there will be some sort of a handle to turn.)

The next step will be to disconnect the supply lines from the shutoff valves, or if there weren't any shutoffs, from the faucet. You will spill a little water here, but as long as the water is shut off it should be minimal.

The next thing to do is to remove what ever mechanism is used to hold the faucet in place, usually there will be threads on the rigid part of the faucet that is below the counter with what amounts to a large nut screwed up the threads against the underside of the counter. A lot of times you will be able to turn these by hand. Be careful, they may be plastic and may break if you're not.

Then you can probably find the clamps or bolts on the underside of the sink holding the sink in place against the underside of the counter and remove the fasteners. The sink and or faucet may be siliconed in place, in which case you'll need to carefully cut the silicone soas not to damage the surfaces. (if the faucet is siliconed to the sink, you can just leave it attached and pull both out together, as long as you have removed the hardware from the bottom side of the faucet (the nut that holds the faucet against the counter mentioned above.

When re-installing, use teflon tape on the threads of the supply lines and silicone the sink to the counter top and the faucet to the sink.

Otherwise that should be a general idea of how to do it. It really is pretty simple.

[Crazy Flamer]

Well looks like the granite guys are going to do the sink. However, they needed to turn off the main water valve and while doing so, they broke it off. It was quite corroded. So now I need a plumber to come in and fix that. PM me if you know of one.

[Wookie]

Might as well use this thread.

My sink drains slowly and my garburator is kind of smelly.

I tried using some drain cleaner. Didn't do much.
I've tried dumping a bucket of boiling water into the sink. Didn't do much.

Any suggestions?

[Mccree]

For the garburator you could try throw ice cubes in it to clean out all the crap that is in there. As for the drain running slowly you could try

Scandia Plumbling. THey are alittle expensive but do good work.

http://www.scandiaplumbing.com/

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by Crazy Flamer

Well looks like the granite guys are going to do the sink. However, they needed to turn off the main water valve and while doing so, they broke it off. It was quite corroded. So now I need a plumber to come in and fix that. PM me if you know of one.

What do you mean "broke it off?" Is it leaking? I'm assuming that you're talking about the main valve inside the house?

If so looks like you might have to phone the city to get your water turned off from outside prior to the plumber arriving. At least that's how it works in Ottawa. Here plumbers aren't allowed to turn off outside valves.

Something you should ask them prior to getting them to come in as they'll bill regardless.