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I like to install DW and WM with their own trap. Avoids smells and gurgling in the sink when it empties.
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Take it apart and clean it all out. Every few years our kitchen sink/washing machine/second sink waste gets a bit fowled up with hair from washing machine and causes the trap to not work properly. Clean it out with a pipe cleaner and some hot water and she's good another few years.
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On a similar topic, we have started to get smells coming from the sink when the dishwasher is draining since installing a new kitchen. The dishwasher wasn't replaced, doesn't smell inside, and it didn't smell when draining before, so I can only suspect it is down to how the IKEA lillviken siphon works. My suspicion is that the pump on the dishwasher is so strong that it blasts everything through the U, as the IKEA setup is that the dishwasher line has a straight entry into it rather than being at 90 deg. Anyone have any bright ideas or experienced similar?
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