Bathtub drain assemblies are mysterious things.
Repair bathtub drain lever.
This old house plumbing and heating expert richard trethewey shows how to adjust a leaky tub stopper.
Usually the problem is easy to fix though the procedures vary depending on what type of tub stopper you have.
When a tub won t hold water the two potential causes are easily repaired.
Rotate the plug in opposite directions to release or hold water these drains have set screws under the lip of the drain.
Video shows how to remove and replace a bathtub drain stopper.
Drains without trip levers.
How to repair the trip lever in a tub drain.
To change the setting of the drain push it down with your foot.
Drains with trip levers.
Push the plug down to hold water and pull it up to drain.
When the stopper in your lever style bathtub drain won t pop up anymore because the linkage is damaged or clogged replace it with a much simpler lift and turn style tub drain.
Any bathtub drain stopper that doesn t do its job is an annoying inconvenience.
See below for tools subscribe to this old house.
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.