Rule #64 of home inspections: If anyone *can* do their own plumbing work, anyone *will* do their own plumbing work.
As we’ve mentioned before, every plumbing fixture is supposed to have one trap to hold a small plug of water and prevent sewer gas from rising up out of the drain. This homeowner must have been one of those people who believe that “more is better.” The water from this sink passes through not one, not two, but three traps: the white trap in the foreground, the middle trap, and the trap at the lower left. It’s like that big rainbow-colored slide at the carnival. I can hear you asking, “But how do you know that a homeowner did this plumbing?” That’s easy. Plumbers don’t use fittings with price stickers on them.
