Bathtub Trip Lever Broken And Detached

Grab the lever and slowly pull the faceplate away from the tub.

Bathtub trip lever broken and detached.

This danco drain trip lever conversion kit lets you complete the tub drain trim of your bathroom with a finished look. He said he used the wrong screws. Close the stopper run some water into the tub and see if it stays. 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.

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. Adjust the nut on the linkage lengthen it to raise the stopper or shorten it to let it drop lower. It also comes with a strainer an overflow plate and a bath shoe. Continue pulling the lever and faceplate until the entire linkage and stopper are out of the overflow.

Can t remove trip lever drain stopper in bathtub. There s pieces of drywall and powder all over the place. The cause here is usually because the connecting rod attached to the trip lever has become shortened from use. He up and goes yeah i m gonna have to walk away from the job.

Pull the plate and lever away from the overflow hole partially pulling out the mechanism. The linkage for the stopper will come out of the overflow pipe. Push the assembly back in and replace the cover plate. 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.

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. Plumbers call it the linkage and. It seems like the rod would thread into the stopper or into a link piece that is connected to the stopper. Remove the two screws securing the lever faceplate to the tub with a phillips head screwdriver.

Place the plunger threaded rod and trip lever back into the hole in the tub and screw the plate back into place.