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Relocate kitchen sink

November 20th, 2009

I have a quick question about relocating my kitchen sink.

Currently, my sink is located in a very awkward spot. I would like to move it to the other side of the room. There is no wall between where the lines currently come in to where I would like to relocate the sink so running the plumbing through the walls is out of the question.

My house is built on a concrete slab. I asked a plumber who was working on another project about moving the lines and he warned me that tearing up the slab and moving the lines was going to be very expensive.

How about raising the floor? If I could raise the floor in the kitchen by 6 inches and run all of the plumbing between the slab and the raised floor would that work? I am looking at moving the sink 10 feet in one direction and 4 feet in another. Is 6 inches, if even reasonable, going to be enough to give proper drainage? Or, do I just need to just bite the bullet and have someone tear up the concrete?

I would rip up the floor, but if you decide to install a raised floor, you will need 1/4″ per foot pitch or the bottom of pipe would need 3 1/2″ pitch plus the pipe. You would be cutting it very close, and you will need to think about the venting also.

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  1. GibsonEssGee
    August 20th, 2009 at 15:27 | #1

    If you want to do it properly then you sand back to bare metal. Prime the surface and then spray it, preferably with at least two coats.

  2. THOMAS H
    August 22nd, 2009 at 16:08 | #2

    The damaged areai wish knew how to go through to useyeah its worth itthen spray using very fine grade of wet and dry1200 grit is what tend to go.

  3. saranstevens
    August 24th, 2009 at 20:31 | #3

    The colour of his car so he sanded it turned out really well hope that helped.

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