What Are the Steps to Drain Repair? Clear a clogged (not stopped) sink or bathtub drain with a plunger: If you have a dishwasher, pinch off the rubber dishwasher drain hose that leads to the garbage disposer using a clamp or locking pliers. If clearing a bathtub, remove the drain stopper...
You may be trying to finish your spring cleaning and just reaching the part about cleaning drains. Or if you have a daughter with long hair like I do, it is pretty muchalwaystime to clear a slow bathtub drain! When your bathtub drain gets dirty, it gets smelly and it can clog your t...
Plunger Drains Step 1 Lay a towel into the tub and over the drain to prevent damage to the tub and losing pieces down the drain. Step 2 Unscrew the overflow plate with a screwdriver and take it off. Pull the plunger assembly out from behind the overflow plate and lay it on the towel....
Sink plungers, also known assink stoppers, plug up the drains in your bathroom sinks and hold in water when you need it. However, sometimes they get stuck, won't stay open or experience other problems. Fortunately, they are not that difficult to repair. Sometimes, the culprit is blockage o...
How to remove and replace If you don't like your bathtub drain, replacing it is about a five-minute DIY task. That seems like a bold statement considering that most of the drain is under the bathtub, and if you were talking about the entire drain assembly, it wouldn't be true even ...
Next, run the water to test the bathtub drain flow. You may need to push down through the clog with a drain stick and pull out any gunk or debris you can loosen. STEP 3: Then, useLiquid-Plumr™Pro-Strength Clog Destroyer GelorLiquid-Plumr™Pro-Strength Hair Eliminator Gelto dissolve...
Sink and Bathtub Pop-Up Drain Stoppers Diagram ©HomeTips © Don Vandervort, HomeTips The flat, slotted clevis is connected by a small spring clip to a pivot rod-and-ball assembly—a rod that runs through a rubber pivot ball and slopes slightly upward to the tailpiece of the stopper....
Plunge the toilet gently to begin with - this will stop the trapped air in the plunger from thrusting backwards and splashing the water everywhere. Once the air has been removed, push the plunger down and up more forcefully, moving the water in and out of the drain. ...
A DIY Bathroom Plumbing Repair There are plenty of reasons you might need to install a new drain plug in your tub. Even a tiny leak around the seal of a stopper can be annoying and wasteful. Perhaps the old plug has become lost or broken, or you're tired of dealing with a standalone...
We’ve all been there – the bathtub isn’t draining properly. Most likely, you’ve got a big clump of hair stuck in there. (We know – gross!) But to really see what’s causing the problem, you’re going to have to remove the drain stopper. That’s a fairly simple process, ...