Bathtub Trip Lever Broken And Detached

It also comes with a strainer an overflow plate and a bath shoe.

Bathtub trip lever broken and detached.

Pull the plate and lever away from the overflow hole partially pulling out the mechanism. Close the stopper run some water into the tub and see if it stays. Continue pulling the lever and faceplate until the entire linkage and stopper are out of the overflow. Based on studying what other tub drains look like we re not 100 sure that we have a crossbar on the top of it because we pulled out a threaded rod with a nut attached to the lever.

He up and goes yeah i m gonna have to walk away from the job. The tv is broken which was brand new and will cost 1k to replace by itself and there are soccer ball sized holes in the drywall. Place the plunger threaded rod and trip lever back into the hole in the tub and screw the plate back into place. It includes a 2 hole faceplate with finish matched screws.

There s pieces of drywall and powder all over the place. Remove the two screws securing the lever faceplate to the tub with a phillips head screwdriver. Problems with this type are usually signaled when the pop up stopper fails to push up enough to open the bathtub drain it wants to stay in the closed position constantly. By chris deziel 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.

It seems like the rod would thread into the stopper or into a link piece that is connected to the stopper. Adjust the nut on the linkage lengthen it to raise the stopper or shorten it to let it drop lower. Plumbers call it the linkage and. The kit comes with a threaded adapter bushing to fit 1 1 2 in.

Grab the lever and slowly pull the faceplate away from the tub. Can t remove trip lever drain stopper in bathtub. If the water drains out repeat the process above and lower the plunger a little bit more until you get the bathwater to stay in. The cause here is usually because the connecting rod attached to the trip lever has become shortened from use.

He said he used the wrong screws.