Friday, June 25, 2021

I want to say again before talking about my little water leak that I do this blog for me but don’t mind if others look. If this was meant primarily for the public I wouldn’t be posting photos of my sink trap.

Great news for me! This morning I decided to see if I could fix the water leak in my kitchen slideout. There’s a small storage area behind a cabinet door below and in front of the sink in which I keep dish clothes. Lately the dish clothes have been wet. There are little walls that form this storage area. These walls prevent you front seeing the sink drain and water tubing. The bottom of the walls were wet. Fortunately the screws holding the walls were easy to remove. The water tubing looked great, no leaks. Every large plastic nut in the drain and trap assembly was loose. Water was sitting under the trap. I hand tightened everything under my sink and it’s fixed. At my third stop on my first trip after retirement I had a small leak behind my toilet which I fixed by hand-tightening a plastic nut. The camp host said “when you’re driving down the road there is a small earthquake going on inside your trailer”.

With the little walls/dividers installed you can’t see any of this
The walls/dividers
Out in the sun to dry out

I think when I get home I’ll cut them down to about 3 or 4 inches high so the area can still be used for storage while providing access to the tubes and pipes. That or leave them out and screw a storage basket to the bottom, or both.