It can be pretty annoying when you take a shower and the water starts puddling around your feet.
Lift bucket trip lever drain stoppers.
Push the plug down to hold water and pull it up to drain.
Some kinds of drain stoppers can make it rather tricky to routinely clean out the drain of hair and debris.
The linkage in a lever style drain attracts dirt and hair like a magnet and must be cleaned regularly in order to keep the drain working properly.
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In this case the plunger device may be a type of spring that connects to the horizontal rocker arm.
If you have not used the lever in a while you might find that it is stuck.
Now that you ve replaced the trip lever on your tub drain you notice it isn t properly stopping the water.
If they aren t that alone might be the problem.
Rotate the plug in opposite directions to release or hold water.
Repairing the stuck bathtub drain lever requires removing the entire mechanism from the tub.
But after cleaning it and finding nothing you probably realized that it is just that the drain stopper is stuck in the closed position.
Drains with trip levers.
The lever on your bathtub operates the hidden stopper in the drain.
These drains have set screws under the lip of the drain.
The most common types of bathtub drain stoppers are lift and turn push and pull pop up toe touch flip it and trip lever.
The first step is to unscrew the plate that holds the trip lever.
Pull out the stopper assembly.
This is usually due to the spring mechanism behind the faceplate.
Sometimes however the trip lever operates a horizontal rocker arm that works a pop up drain plug that fits into the bathtub drain opening.
If it won t go down you probably thought it was clogged with hair or something.
Have a drop cloth in the tub to prevent scratching it or losing the screws down the drain.
Watch this short video how to adjust the lever me.
Identifying which type you have will help you when it becomes necessary to fix or replace your drain stopper.
Check that the two eyes where the threaded rod articulates are properly aligned.