Bathtub Drain Repair
Flush the tub drain with a solution of 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of baking soda and rinse with boiling water.
Bathtub drain repair. If your tub begins to drain slowly or stops draining completely it has probably. Somehow a lever placed well above the bottom of the tub controls whether the water stays in the tub when it s wanted and then allows it to drain when bath time is over. At the first sign of trouble that your tub drain is leaking it is time to take action. Some drains have stoppers that are spring loaded operated by a push of the toe or by hand while others use a trip lever mounted on the bathtub s overflow plate.
This instructable is to help people who are first timers like me this is the first time i have attempted any plumbing repairs and the videos are a little wonky let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions to make this job easier the tools. How to repair the trip lever in a tub drain. Bathtub drain assemblies are mysterious things. If the tub has been leaking or the drain is hard to operate clean the linkage rocker arm and stopper.
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Use a brush and a mild cleaning solution or vinegar. Replacing bath tub drain. Unfortunately it usually takes a long time before people notice that there is a problem. Usually the problem is easy to fix though the procedures vary depending on what type of tub stopper you have.
Some people refer to the system of adjustable rods that connects the drain stopper of a bathtub to the trip lever as the guts of the bathtub. Video shows how to remove and replace a bathtub drain stopper.