Hi, everyone. I need some help. I took the trap and elbow off the bathroom sink to augur. When I was done, I replaced the old metal pieces with PVC. I tried to get a nut off the metal stub-out, because I thought it belonged to the old elbow.

Instead, the whole four-inch piece came out in my hand. I pushed it back in as far as I could, installed the new PVC parts, and turned on the faucet. It dripped at the metal nut.

I stuck a screwdriver through the void under the stub-out. It went in four inches, hit something hard, came out clean. But the stub-out is no longer flush with the wall.

How bad is this?

I have good images on my computer rather than on the web, but I don't see how to upload them.

Thank you!

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Thanks, everyone. I've learned that the tube that came out wasn't the stub-out. It was siliconed inside the stub-out as a way around getting the stuck slip nut off the end of the stub-out (nipple?). That nut has to come off, and part of the wall has to be opened to get to it. It's possible the nipple pipe itself may need replacing or trimming.



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