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    Does someone have a nice , understandable explanation of what is the function of a p-trap? I stumbled over my thoughts this morning when asked! No one has ever asked that before!!

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    The trap holds the water which keeps sewer gas out of the house. That is why (among other reasons) there is water in the toilet.

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    John,
    What Jim said.

    This may be helpful for an elementaryunderstanding of how it all fits together.

    Plumbing your new home - How does that work?

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    Good diagrams and explanation Thom, but I used less words.

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    I agree. And I'm sure that if you could have found your crayons you would have included drawings.

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    Anyone notice in that link that the clothes washer drain did not have a trap, and the height looks such that it is too high to have a trap under the floor? Or is that just my eyes acting up again?

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    It's not your eyes. I wrote one up last year. The AHJ came about an hour after I left and green tagged the plumbing rough in.

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    Marshall's elementary diagrams of an plumbing drainage system are elementary incorrect.

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