An Overview of Your Home’s Kitchen Plumbing

When you are building a home, plumbing is essential. This includes the plumbing in your kitchen. When a home inspector looks at the building, chances are they’ll look at your kitchen plumbing to make sure that it has everything you need. For instance, you are going to see supply lines for both the cold and hot water, you’ll have a waste line attached to your sink. If you choose to have a gas range, you’ll have a pipe for the gas to come into the home. You may even opt to have hookups for a variety of machines and services including:

• Water treatment system
• Dishwasher
• Garbage disposal
• Icemaker

No doubt your kitchen plumbing is a vital part to your kitchen’s overall appearance and décor.

Visible Parts To Your Kitchen Sink
Where can you find the plumbing in your kitchen? Actually, you can see plumbing pipes underneath the cabinet of your kitchen sink. A gas connector will be serving your gas range and any control of it is through the gas valve, situated near the floor under the stove.
Under Your Kitchen Sink

Along with the hot and cold water supply pipes you’ll see underneath your kitchen sink, you’ll also have tiny shut off valves that will turn off your water. This helps when you have to fix something and don’t want shut off water to the rest of the home. It reroutes the water to other rooms.

You may notice other connections on your cold water shut off valve such as the saddle valve. This usually occurs when you have flexible plastic or copper tubing for your connections. When you have this saddle valve, your dishwasher, hot water dispenser and water treatment devices will get the proper service they need.

Shut Off Valves
Why are shut off valves so important on your plumbing lines? They are important because they will supply both the cold water and hot water to your kitchen faucets. You may notice that older homes do not have these shut off valves.

Supply tubes help to connect the valves and threaded tailpieces in the faucet. Those kitchen sinks with a sprayer will also have a sprayer hose, which also connects to another tailpiece. All the connections take place in the center of the faucet.

Gas Stove Hookup

When you have a gas range, the gas supply is controlled by a shut off valve located under the range. The line is rather small but allows the gas to service the gas range.
Installation of a Dishwasher
When a dishwasher is installed, it needs a 20-amp electric outlet, drainage line and both cold water and hot water supply lines. It’s best for the dishwasher to be installed near the kitchen sink so that the drainage line can connect to the sink drainage line. It’s best to employ someone to install your dishwasher so that you do not have any disasters down the road.