Reconnect kitchen sink pipes

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Reconnect kitchen sink pipes

Author: Susan48 (SC)

please help! I had a new kitchen sink installed along with my new counter tops. I was too cheap to pay a plumber to hook it up. However the new configuration is a problem and I have been working on it for two days without solving it.

I installed the new garbage disposal under the right sink drain and ran it to the left sink pipes. This is the same as the configuation of the previous sink.

The problem is that the new left sink drain pipes are too close to the pipe that takes the discharge out through the back wall. So the pipes coming down from the left sink drain very very close to the pipe attached to the pipe in the back wall. The two pipes are virtually side by side (about two inches apart.)

I have sawed off the fitting to shortened the pipe coming out of the wall twice and am afraid to make that wall pipe any shorter.

How can I attach the two vertical pipes or reconfigure the whole thing to make the necessary connections?

picture is upside down
picture is sideways, note pipe coming out of back wall

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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: hj (AZ) YOU SCRAP What you have done already and get "disposer drain kit" or call a plumber who knows how to connect it properly. Edited 1 times.
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Author: packy (MA) shorten both the disposer ell and the kitchen sink tailpiece a little. put the tee under the disposer and the elbow under the sink. turn the elbow at the wall toward the disposer and connect the trap to it.
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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: North Carolina Plumber (NC) Remove the black disposal elbow, use a flange tailpiece horizontally out of the disposal and raise the end waste tee about 4" to catch the horizontal tailpiece.
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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: packy (MA) i tip my hat to you, north carolina plumber. as an old boss of mine used to say.. "that's why i send 2 guys on a job. one will always have a good idea"...
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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: hj (AZ) You must not install many disposers, because that is one of the parts that come with a "disposer connection kit", which MOST plumbers use to make connections like this.
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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: packy (MA) "You must not install many disposers, because that is one of the parts that come with a "disposer connection kit... along with other frippery...
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Re: Reconnect kitchen sink pipes
Author: North Carolina Plumber (NC) In that picture the disposal ell creates two unnecessary 90's in the drain piping .
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