Usually the problem is easy to fix though the procedures vary depending on what type of tub stopper you have.
Trip lever drain stopper stuck.
Can t remove trip lever drain stopper in bathtub.
This is usually due to the spring mechanism behind the faceplate.
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Repairing the stuck bathtub drain lever requires removing the entire mechanism from the tub.
I removed the face plate and tried to pull out the rod and stopper but it will not budge.
I m trying to fix our stuck bathtub drain switch so we can give our dog a real bath but the switch is stuck.
It moves the stopper in the opposite direction to the lift rod.
If it won t go down you probably thought it was clogged with hair or something.
When you push or pull on the lift rod it activates a lever the extends through the drain tailpiece.
The lever on your bathtub operates the hidden stopper in the drain.
It s probably been many years since it was used to stop the water in the tub.
After watching a few videos on the internet it seemed pretty simple.
But after cleaning it and finding nothing you probably realized that it is just that the drain stopper is stuck in the closed position.
Have taken off overflow to try to remove the mechanism.
Unscrew the plate pull out the mechanism untangle or replace it and screw the plate back in.
Some drains have stoppers that are spring loaded operated by a push of the toe or by hand while others use a trip lever mounted on the bathtub s overflow plate.
Hiram oh the trip lever waste and overflow drain plunger will not come out of drain pipe.
A sink stopper mechanism isn t difficult to understand.
The lever hooks onto the stopper through a hole or hook on the bottom of a long plastic flange that s attached to the stopper.
If you have not used the lever in a while you might find that it is stuck.
Bathtub trip lever stopper stuck in overflow pipe.
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