This weekend my wife and I were doing some clean up and repairs around the house and one thing we needed to fix was the basket at the bottom of the kitchen sink. Our old basket was broken in half and seeing as there was almost no possible way to fix it, we had to go out and get a new one :) I guess I could have used some super glue and jerry rigged it back together, but that wouldn't be any fun so we MUST PURCHASE NEW STUFF. Much more fun, right?
So in order to remove your old flange, your going to probably need a couple of pipe wrenches to get around the drain. One to hold the top part and one for the bottom. Another problem you might run into would be holding the the top part of the drain in place with a big screw driver or something. There is a tool used to do this, but normally the two pipe wrenches should do the job.
If your looking up at the sink from underneath, turn the lower piece holding the drain pipe up clockwise until it comes loose. That will remove the drain from the lower pipe drain. Now for the top one. It's pretty easy, just make sure the top of the sink drain isn't moving while you turn the giant nut underneath to get it off.
Before you go ripping it out from under the sink, make a note of where the different pieces are when taking it apart. Believe me, it will save you probably an hour of undoing the new again because you put something on upside down.
We hope this helps with your quest of a clean sink. If you ever need a kitchen faucet, bathroom faucet, or shower head, check out our shop at TheKitchenFaucet.com
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