I hooked up both of my hoses to the airgap first. Made it a lot easier. Good video, thanks.

Great video. I have been doing this kind of thing for a living for many years, and I find it helpful for me to attach both hoses to the air gap BEFORE I stick it through the hole in the sink. Every thing else I do the same as you. Best wishes to you!

A high loop can still siphon all the water out of a sink with a slow drain into the dishwasher. An air gap is designed to prevent that back siphon.

Thank you so much!! I've got the old dishwasher out now. I'm pretty good with tools and fixing things but the new dishwasher installation is something I've never done before. I had no clue what an air gap is, so this really helps and I'm ready to go now.

I was about to go underneath to install the gasket. Your video stopped me from doing that. I installed it on top. Simple and no messing with under the sink.

The garbage disposal and dishwasher videos make me a little jealous as I don't have either one.

Definitely learned something new. I never knew about these and my dishwasher doesn’t have one. Great video brother. Thanks for always giving us great information

It really helped me to understand what that thing under my sink was that was attached to nothing but a secondary drain pipe (evidently they installed a drain pipe just for the dishwasher apart from the sink drain pipe). Now that I know I am going to remove it since it is not being used at, the dishwasher has a high loop that goes straight to the disposal and it works just fine. Gonna install an air button for the disposal in the air gap hole since the air gap is just sitting there unused and I don't need it at all.

Learned something today lol. I guess my state does require it or didn't after we had to rebuild after being flooded. I was excited for the upgrade to a dishwasher and garbage disposal. 😀 But now with just two of us, I could do without either one. Hope y'all are having a great weekend!

Thanks for video. Was getting bad odor from air gap body. Realized the hose from gap to disposal was not sloped correctly and it was clogging. Changed everything out and no issues.

I never knew you could use that screwdriver to tighten clamps like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Thank you so much for this video. We are having new countertops put in and they are code in CA. Our contractor said that it's a personal choice but when we sell we don't want to be caught without an air gap that is code.

Thank for making it easy! It cost me $15 at Home Depot and 15 minutes to install. One of my twin boys held the plastic air gap through the hole while I came back out from under the sink. Easy install. Cleanup, test with a wash and all is good. Thanks again!

Are used to barbecue wooden skewers to shove down the top of the airgap and it compressed the two clips and once they were collapsed it was easy to pull the thing out of the center.

Thank you so much for the thorough walk thru. I was in the process of replacing the faucet and disposal and was curious if I needed this ugly air gap. I researched and found your video and replaced mine since it’s code required. I really appreciate it coming from someone who’s never gotten under the kitchen sink lol.

Great video thanks, you are the only person I've seen discuss cutting down the dishwasher hose end from 7/8" to the 5/8" so it can fit on the air gap tube end.

I'm glad I can just use a high loop

Thank you fix it guy. someone installed instant hot water where air was originally installed. As you say in CA is Code required.

Thanks, I have a 5 hole sink which is kind of odd. Was looking to replace the faucet and sprayer but had no clue what the air gap was. Much appreciated.

Great we looking for a breakdown of the assembly. Thanks

Thanks you made it look not so complicated and stated reasons.

Nice video. I wondered though, how long the hose should for the air gap.

Thank you so much for this video. This helped me immensely.

cool, yes those air gaps are cheap. i replaced an air gap from 1987, and it was made out of copper tubes. quality has really went away.

Thank you teacher

How do you not have 1 mill subs? Best handyman on KZfaq. Thanks!

A vent for every drain is all you need.

Thanks for the tips Brian! Never knew!

Good advise thanks from California

thank you for sharing... Excellent!!!

I recently experienced water coming out of my Air Gap. I found your video, I replaced my Air Gap and flushed out my hoses. After reinstalling I did a test run, but I still have water coming out of my Air Gap into my sink. Thoughts / suggestions.

Hate this things. Only in California. Not there anymore so I do not have one. Only need a high loop.

Thanks very help full great job bro keep up Good work .👍👍👍👍

Thanks for this video I plan to install one of these😊

Thanks for the video! It was very helpful!

Yep. Don't dump sewage in your sink to begin with

Thank you for the video! I don’t think we have one of those. Do I need one?

Why are soap suds coming out of the air gap after washing dishings?.We just had an air gap installed 2 days ago. We haven't used our dishwasher in years because we needed it fix because it wouldn't drain. We had the dishwasher fixed and air gap installed just a few days ago. After 2 days though soap suds is coming out after washing dishes.

Thank you for your help!

The hose from the dishwasher is too big to fit on the inlet of the air gap

I installed one of these but the old gap gasket was at bottom n water was leaking from there, i actually connect both hoses same time before i put air gap

Easy class… Thanks a lot… 👍👍

Hello, recently I purchased Kohler sink bundle with faucet from COSTCO in CA. No opening for Air Gap, and Kohler do not recommend to open any hole on their product. Is high loop only option to connect hose from DW to Garbage disposal? Thanks for your comment!

Great Tutorial! Thanks.

Its better to install both hoses before attaching to the sink

Why is there water coming out of the air gap when we start the dish washer

THANK YOU!

A customer has an air gap that just shoots water from the dishwasher out into the sink like it doesn't drain into the disposal. Must be clogged or broken eh? Lol

This is informative. Thanks.

I did what you showed and YET it’s still weeping now what? All new hoses and new air gap valve

Water is coming out of the air gap, can someone assist me? I checked everything I installed it the exact way he did.

I have a question: If I dont have a dishwasher, do I still need an air gap for a garbage disposal unit??

Put both hoses on first Much easier

Lol next time install both lines before the airgap up to the counter

We installed a dishwasher and the drain hose comes in from bottom up to water disposal. It's hooked up to watwr disposal but when dishwasher is on doing something then water starts leaking through the bottom of water disposal?? Do I need to put a plug on on water disposal and just hook up the drain hose somewherelse?

question! why don't you connect disposal hose and dish washer drain hose to the air gap before put it into hole on the sink?? just wondering, will that be much easier to tighten up?

So if you have a new sink with no hole for the air gap, do you cut a hole or do you simply run a high loop? (Brand new dishwasher, so I know it has a backflow valve.)

very helpful. thank you

I was thinking of attaching both hoses to the air gap before pushing the air gap up through the sink and clamping it. Is there a reason why you prefer to do things in the order you used here?

"You turn full-on contortionist" hahaha.

Thank you, sir!~

Great info. Thanks

I can’t seem to connect the black hose without it getting kinked. I cut it, thinking it would fit better, but I think it’s actually worse now. Any tips?

I took my disposal out. Do I still need the air gap? Could I connect the dishwasher hose direct to the tailpiece branch or should I keep the black hose that comes from the air gap and connect it to the tailpiece branch? Any thoughts on this as to what would be best?

high loop seems best

That was a good video thanks. My question is my air gap has water coming through it so I changed mine out to a new set up because the other air gap broke on top from being very old. I found that my house from dish washer is backed up with some debris. So how do I go about fixing that. Thanks

I went from dual kitchen sinks to a single (disposal and dishwasher), when the new sink was installed they deleted the vent. A few days after the install my sink began randomly making a gurgling noise, it doesn’t back up or anything. I wondering if the deletion is the cause or maybe the Ptrap is not set up correctly.

Subscribing to your channel. Thank you!

Great video!

Best video Fantastic

if I don't have hole, can it be mounted under the sink?

Can I connect a dishwasher and cup rinser at the same time?

Hello! I’ve really needed this as my dishwasher floods often and I don’t even use it and do everything by hand. I do have a question, is it required that we buy the cutter? I don’t want for it to clog and I want to buy the stuff from Home Depot today.

Does it matter how close the air gap is installed to the dish washer?

Hello, I have two dishwashers one on each side of the sink. Both are connected to a single air gap. Anytime I use one dishwasher, the drain water collects in the other one. The draining pipe past the air gap or the common outlet between the two dishwashers aren’t clogged either. I cannot use separate air gap for each dishwasher since sinks offer only one hole. What should resolve this? Thank you.

Is it code everywhere?

Hey Brian thanks for the information It must not be required here in Kentucky because I have never seen anything like that before. How is the back been doing?

Thank you for your help!!

Does this have to be done in alabama

I've never had any water back up in the dishwasher, but just a little does come up into the sink basket and sometimes just barely makes it to the top of the sink basket. Would you think it's worth me installing an air gap for that little back up into the sink basket? I've always wondered if an air gap would work as an option to vent a sink that needs to be vented? Probably not as I've not seen anyone talk about that as a venting option for example a slow drain:) Thanks for all the vids you produce. It helps a lot of people:)

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So, I want to install a 3-stage undersink filter and am trying to avoid having to drill a hole in my quart counters for the faucet...but, instead, I'd like to use the hole where my required air vent it. I'm hoping to tell the plumber who quoted me $600 to pound sand and do it myself (even I could do it after a bit of Youtubing, I think). He said he can rig this up in such a way as to be able to use that current hole...something about putting it underneath - not sure what that'd entail, though? Maybe just a high-loop? Any thoughts on how I can stay within code, install my filter myself, and not have to drill another hole, please?? Thanks for the video!

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So ugly. I would never put it on the counter top

Don't they make a bottle type brush for cleaning that air gap and hose!