Did you know that your kitchen sink has a venting pipe that comes out of the roof?
Without it, your kitchen sink would never drain (not that mine is draining now) and that it is conceivable that if you drain was clogged past the venting pipe that you could plunge all you want because the all it would do is try to push it up the venting pipe...
In this case, if you applied enough pressure, you could actually push stuff out to your roof - smelly kitchen sink nastiness type stuff.
be because of gravity and air pressure, the sink remains clogged.
and the kitchen requires cleaning because of all the failed plunging and inadequate snaking. (The pipes now require a snake of greater length or a plumber of greater ability)
Anyhow, I have always noticed these pipes on roofs (or is it rooves?), and I never knew what it was.
now I do.
and now you do, too.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
fun fact of the day.
posted @ 12:43 by ryan in [ Tidbits... ]
