Remove Pop Up Drain Stopper Tub

The linkage is accessed through the overflow cover and once it is removed.

Remove pop up drain stopper tub.

This video shows you how to remove stuck tub drains. Flip lever drain stoppers. This raises and lowers a pivot arm that runs through a horizontal pipe arm and is attached to the stopper removing this type of stopper is slightly different than for the. The stopper is actually attached to linkage that connects to the stopper control.

Gunk builds up in this area and once the cap has been removed you can pull out the clog by hand. A pop up bathtub plug can be unscrewed and removed. How to remove and re install a bathtub pop up drain for maintenance and cleaning. To remove one set it to the open position and turn the stopper in a counterclockwise direction to unscrew it.

Many people try to twist the stopper thinking that it screws into a mechanism inside the drain. The clog is generally directly under the cap at the drain catcher where the screw fits into that holds the cap in place. Some bathtub drain stoppers are operated by a flip lever mounted on the overflow opening on the tub. Pop up stoppers are the kind where you push it down to close it and then push it once more to make it pop up again when you want to open it.

If there is no screw on your plug stopper. Pop ups have a visible stopper in the tub drain and cannot be covered by a strainer. Many times when you are trying to remove a tub drain assembly with a pop up drain to install a new tub. A bathtub pop up drain stopper may have to be removed to clear a clog or snake the drain.