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