Hello everyone!

So I am already a big plumbing noob in the US, but I am currently living in Turkey and most apartments here are set up a bit differently then what I'm accustomed to looking at back home.

The problem is: When I'm running the water from the kitchen sink, after a few moments water starts to come gushing out of where the dishwasher drain hose enters the wall. (further evidence that I am a noob, im not even sure if that hose from the dishwasher is the drain hose. Anyway its the hole on the left side of the photo that I am posting. It doesnt come out of the hose itself, but from that left hole.)

Not sure if this is related, but the landlord recently had a guy repair the dishwasher and reinstall it, and this problem started happening shortly after.

Any idea at all how I can fix this? Thanks so much





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Call the landlord. It's his problem, no? It's also in his interest to get it fixed right away, so I think he would be pretty motivated. Unrestrained water flowing inside a house is one of those things a landlord hates to hear. It's right up there with tenants who don't pay the rent, and neighbors who call, and say, "I think I see smoke coming out of a window".

That's a mess. I'd plug that opening behind the dishwasher, and use a dishwasher branch tailpiece under the sink basket strainer. It needs a tubular trap also.

Thanks for the replies all. Let me clarify a bit, it isnt really going loosely all over the place inside of the wall. That hole is a pvc pipe that connects to the main plumbing system I guess, and the DW drain hose is just feeding into it.

The two pvc pipes (left hole and where the sink drains into) are obviously connected, but what would make the water from the sink go back up through the left side and not draining completely? My first thought was that maybe something is clogged. I drano'd the hell out of it but its still a problem.

Any ideas? Or I guess I should call a professional haha but im open to any suggestions



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I. YOu have a drain stoppage
2. Drano, or anything like it, is completely useless
3. It has to be snaked
4. the DW drain hose is NOT connected to the piping, it is just stuck into the hole.

First of all, you can't do anything about this because this is not your property and your landlord is 100% completely responsible and need to be deal with this.

If you try and fix it yourself, or even hire someone to fix it and pay for it, you are now responsible for this repair and assumes the liabilities that comes with it.

From taking a real close up look at the picture, it does appear there is a pipe opening on the left where the hose feeds into.



Water is coming out of that pipe opening because the seal between the hose and that piping was not done properly. But that is a good thing because it also exposed a bunch of other contributing problems. The hose it too high you need an air gap or at least a high loop. That pipe may run to the right and connect to a vent pipe the flex tubing to the right is connected to. What is the thing on the right where it looks like some tape was shoved into it? Was the old dishwasher clamped onto that? Your landlord should fix this whole contraption.