Replace Atlant siphon?

if you don't know the siphon, there's nothing to say. the siphon has several connection nozzles e.g. for dishwasher, washing machine... these are initially closed and you have to break through the plastic to open them. eva should have understood what I wrote, if not, she could ask.

I have had more siphons in front of my nose than I like, with everything that can come with them.

I also found the siphon at Ikea.

The problem is, no one (probably not you either) knows what exactly is defective. (Sure, leaking, but what exactly is defective and how, in DETAIL)

Is the metal of the sink no longer sealing, or the gasket or the plastic overflow, possibly together with the thread for the screw. Even if she gets a rubber hose and a clamp, where is she supposed to connect the hose when we don't know where something is defective or leaking? Just attaching it to the overflow grate won't work, that's what the plastic part with the gasket from Ikea is for, which then goes to the siphon.

Anyway, go ahead. Sealing it would be the best for a short time (see my post above), can be done with household materials, although I have more of those than maybe the average person.

Hello

No stress please.
We were able to solve our problem without the Atlant siphon, which I actually didn’t want anyway.
We bought a new drain strainer (the right size) and were then able to connect the old siphon.

Actually, my boyfriend punched through these caps on the connectors on both sides, where the overflow protection is attached. If water flowed in there from above, while the washing machine was running and also the wastewater from the sink, it would shoot the mess all across the apartment.
My boyfriend wanted to seal it with silicone, but it didn’t hold on the smooth plastic. And since we are absolutely not handy, we had no idea how to fix it otherwise.
So I bought a new drain strainer.

The next Ikea is not really unreachable for me.
It’s only about 30–40 km. But I don’t have a car and honestly no clue if and how a bus/train goes there. And since my sister-in-law works (she always drives us), I have to coordinate with her. Since I won’t need to go there again for at least 4 months, she would never have just taken me there in between, she simply has too little time.

And yes, I can only connect my washing machine in the kitchen. I really don’t like that, as the machine takes up space. Also, I still don’t have running water in the kitchen, because as unhandy as my boyfriend is, he once again bought the wrong fittings for the faucet. I’m glad I have a bathroom and toilet, where there is constantly running water

Eva

Hello Eva.

The annoying thing was/is that you sometimes talk about the drain strainer and sometimes about the overflow, and that with a tool that has been punched through. (WHAT was punched THROUGH HOW and drain strainer or overflow?)

Unfortunately, such a description is very imprecise. Even if you don’t have any expert knowledge, you could still describe exactly where you mean what, where a defect occurred, and where the water flows.

Sometimes the overflow, sometimes the "drain strainer" (those are two different issues, even though both lead to the drain).

But if everything is fixed with a new "drain strainer," I wonder what that has to do with the overflow, grins.

I just mean, please describe a bit more precisely (all questioners in the future), so the "problem area" can be clearly identified. "Car only jerks" surely doesn’t help a car mechanic online either, grins.

No offense, but it really requires the exact location of the leak or defect.

"Caps of the connectors" is quite vague, or an understatement times three, because I have no idea what is meant by that. Like "screws of the boards." A siphon has numerous sources of error and they’re all called caps, connectors, threads, seals, and so on. And if the overflow is then confused with the drain strainer, well...

But good that it works again now.

I honestly just tried my best as quickly as I could so washing could happen. (I know the problem myself, but rather in the situation of not being able to organize a pump on Sunday...)

Everything will be fine, and so will we all, grins


@IKEA Expert:
"Punch through caps of the connectors, at the overflow."
and
"new drain strainer, everything ok."

IKEA Expert... please help me, hehe. No offense! But that had to be said


@EVA again:
It’s not bad to not be able to describe something like that exactly, but I didn’t ask for nothing because it was simply too imprecise. Anyone you ask about it (craftsmen or so, although they are usually on site and start immediately) will ask you that.

It was neither the overflow nor the drain strainer that was defective. Instead, it was the fittings to which the overflow is connected. I can't upload a photo, otherwise I would mark it. In the description of the Atlant siphon, there is a note to "break open" the overflow fittings with a screwdriver because both sides are equipped with a stuck closure. And that’s exactly what my friend did, unfortunately overzealously on both sides, not considering that the overflow is only connected to one of the two fittings. And since there are no threads on the fittings, a cap wouldn't have helped either because it’s too small and without threads. Go to page 5 in the manual; there you’ll see what I mean by breaking through. The fitting for the overflow connection is broken through with a screwdriver. And since there are two sides but only one side should be opened, the water would have rushed through me.

Oh, why is everything okay again now that you got a "new drain strainer"? Sorry, that has nothing to do with cutting off!

And that the parts have to be broken open at IKEA is well known.

But did we know that the siphon is new?

I thought there had been some tinkering and your friend "slipped" with the screwdriver. (broke something, but what was the problem)

Aha, now I got it, grin.. on both sides. Yeah sure, haha.

I thought it was some old installation or something, where something went wrong during tinkering...

You mean the two little pipes, grin.. of course everything leaks then. But you could have sealed that with a thousand things, haha. Well, I also have a thousand things here. Not everyone does, sure.

But it started with the overflow, then the drain strainer, which was then bought new, and now it's the connection at the siphon directly at the siphon, where it's about the connection on the left or right.

Wonderful, the whole thing

PS:
A rubber from the hardware store (any kind, preferably conical) would have been enough to seal it. Best to glue it then (from glue to duct tape, i.e. fabric adhesive tape, you can choose anything) and the plug then seals the "extra hole". Even better is putty adhesive (epoxy resin based), which can be purchased in small tubes from 3-4 euros and GLUES AND SEALS EVERYTHING and becomes ROCK HARD and sandable. Cut a little, knead and then stick it into the pipe (plug) and wait a few hours before the next (grin...) "water letting" (haha.. no )

I really was somewhere else! I thought the SCREWDRIVER would have been struck by your friend through the overflow or through the drain strainer as an accident. (You screw in a screw, but nothing breaks through, grin)

Well, so we solved it, no, YOU solved it grin

All the best and have a nice Sunday!