Reply #16: Have you thought about breaking [View All]

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

that pop up off of it ? The drain or most drains anyway are inserted with a tool. The bathtub drain screws in. Or it should. A replacement bathtub drain is only 10 bucks there about.

It is very difficult to get a snake down a bathtub. If you were to look at the plumbing configuration in a diagram as it is plumbed in underneath the tub,you would see why you go into that through a clean out access.It can be done, but it's a task.

I have taken a roto zip with a metal cutting blade and notched two sides of old drains where the center T,which is where the tool connects to either install or remove the tub drain assembly ,-was rotted out or missing in action,than used a screw driver and hammer to tap the drain out. Once you get it to move ,the rest is easy. Thats called tapping it out.

After it's out you remove the the seal from under the tub-pull it up through the hole. Put yer new seal in,down through the hole using yer screw driver to carefully align the gasket,than add a little plumbers putty around the area where yer new drain inserts and screw the new drain in. With the tool of course. It cost about ten bucks. OK so maybe $25 bucks total . Yer new tub drain will come with the gasket and a screw in pop up if you go that route and directions for the install. Those directions will clarify just what I am getting at.And there is no filter on that. There may be dubris trapped ,in that area though.
I would think since you cannot remove the pop up ,the drain itself as far as using the tool to remove it is in good shape.The T by the way is sort of in the way if yer were to stick a snake down there! So yer letting that pop up hold up the big change ?

Why is that?