Product Shoutout: Using Snappy Trap for Bathroom Drain Repairs

The Easy Way to do Bathroom Drain Repairs

If you are in the business of doing your own maintenance, there is nothing worse than showing up to do a repair and not having all the parts you need. You get to bother your tenant a second time and it costs you time to go get the part. Well, I had to do a bathroom drain repair recently and came across this exact situation. (Contains affiliate links to keep the site going)

Here’s How it went:

1. Assess the leaky bathroom drain from a tenant photo and guess what the problem is.
2. Go to Home Depot and buy what I thought I needed.
3. Enter unit and attempt to make the repair.
4. End up not having the correct parts and wasting time going back to Home Depot
5. Find and buy Snappy Trap Universal Drain Kit for Bathroom Sinks.
6. Return to make repair.
7. Replace the entire J-Bend with the parts from the Snappy Trap.
8. Go home and enjoy my family

Enter the Snappy Trap!

I used the all-in-one bathroom drain set, and it was great. There were several issues with the previous drain assembly using some very cheap parts (Pronounced flex-hose). There was also a mismatch of sizes since the new replacement drain was 1.25″ and the previous plumbing was 1.5″. This made the repair difficult to perform and I knew that it wouldn’t be the best option.

The Snappy Trap kit came with literally everything I needed to make the repair; tail piece extension, P-trap piping, smooth interior flex pipe to run to the wall, several connections to connect everything, and several adapters in case the pipe size changes anywhere. You can see in the diagram below everything that is included. It covers nearly all situations for repairing a bathroom sink, and its very inexpensive.

All in all, the repair took 30 minutes after I had this kit. The previous step, you know the one where I had to guess at what I needed, also took 30 minutes… And the 2nd trip to Home Depot burned 60 minutes because that place is worse than Walmart as a time suck. Therefore, I could have saved 90 minutes if I had grabbed this unit in the first place, and I will from here on out.

Everything You Need for the Repair

I thought it would be useful to include a start to finish list of items I needed to do this repair correctly.

• Snappy Trap Universal Drain Kit for Bathroom Sinks
• KES Vessel Sink Drain Stopper Bathroom Pop Up Drain with Overflow
• Channellock GS-3 3 Piece Straight Jaw Tongue and Groove Pliers Set
• WM Harvey 043010 43010 Putty, 14 oz
• Total Cost (If you have nothing to start with): Roughly $65
• Time Saved: 1 to 2 trips to Home Depot for extra parts.

I chose a specific type of drain assembly to reduce the amount of bathroom drain repairs you need to do for your rental property. An article is in the works on why I chose this particular design. I link it when I am finished with it.

Oh, and I thought this would be useful as well! Trap kits for single and double kitchen sinks. In case you need them in the future you can click through here to support our efforts to produce additional content. Cheers!

Snappy Trap 1 1/2″ Drain Kit for Single Kitchen Sinks, Bar Sinks and Laundry Sinks

Snappy Trap 1 1/2″ All-In-One-Drain Kit for Double Bowl Kitchen Sinks

Snappy Trap Special Kit for Double Kitchen Sinks with Limited Vertical Distance between Sink Strainers and Wall Drainpipe

Good luck and let me know if you have questions. I am not a plumber, but this isn’t rocket science and your only goal here is to make sure the water stays in the pipe. If you’re not comfortable attempting this, hire a plumber or handyman to get it done.