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When I trimmed the gasket I did find a bulge and some rust so I probably will have to pull it and caulk it with silicone. Might need to apply a little pink paint as well. Hoping there is no perforation and that the edge of the sink is okay for viewing. Otherwise it looks like I will have to...

Thank you all for your useful and informative posts. I will first try Diehard's solution and cut away the top part of the gasket all the way around and see what I get from that. The sink has never leaked around its diameter seal so I might be able to get away with just that. If I start to get...

You can see from the car that I stopped growing in the seventies.:)

Okay. You can see where the gasket is torn. Any ideas where I can buy another one? Around here you have to get the sink as well as the gasket and I don't want to replace the sink.

I will try to get a picture of it but I can say that the brand name of the sink is Crane. Oops. I succeeded and here it is in all of its pink glory!

The gasket that surrounds my 1970s pink Crane bathroom sink has split on one side. It is one of those 'bulgy triangular' shaped sinks that were common at the time and are still made today. I would like to keep it but have been unable to find a gasket locally. I stuck the rip together with...

My 'seventies style Crane triangular pink sink [17 by 20 inches] has a cream coloured gasket around its rim. It has developed a two to three inch tear along one of its sides. I have tried to find a source for these gaskets but they seem to be available only with the purchase of a new sink...

There is no way I would pay that. About four years ago I discovered water in my crawl space. This house is about forty years old and had concrete drainage tiles all around it and the downspouts poured into the perimeter drains. I hired Roto-rooter to run their augur through one side of the...

Unfortunately I acted before I received your reply and called Roto Rooter and $110 later I think I might have my problem dealt with. He ran an auger down the drain and the sink is draining much faster now. He did supply me with a number of ways of dealing with the problem if it emerges in...

That makes a lot of sense. When you say 'drain cleaner' I take it you are not talking about a general plumber but rather something like Roto-rooter.

My main bathroom sink partially plugs about four times every year. I pull out the popup plug setup and clean it out but before long the drainage rate begins to slow again and I know it is time to clean it out again. It is an old sink with a popup drain and standard old style [70s] faucet. When...

Well, I finally dug out all of the perimeter drains along the side of the house, about 27 feet of them in all. They are the old concrete two foot lengths of pipe laid side by side around the house. One corner had been stove in by the installation of a fence post on top of it. Thus, this...

Hello Reedwalker, I have a trim piece circling the house that I checked for level. I then measured down from the trim piece to the top of the perimeter drains that I have excavated to date. Not precise but accurate enough I would guess. Thus, to use your standard, for anything over eight...

I have a twenty-seven foot long perimeter drain along the side of my house. The front corner is 5/8 of an inch higher than the rear corner. Is this enough to allow for drainage from the front of the house to the rear? Or should I increase the gradient? Is there some kind of formulae that can...

Dennis, When he showed the nozzle to me the spray holes were pointing backward at about a forty-five degree angle. I don't think there were any forward pointing spray holes. He mentioned in passing that it might cut some of the roots given the strength of the water spray. No guarantee on...

My local rental company suggested I use their 3000 psi pressure washer to clean out my ceramic perimeter drains. They thought an auger would be too hard on the interior of these forty year old drains but that the pressure washer would do the trick and might even cut off some of the roots that...