My Bathtub Lift Up

How to remove a bathtub pop up drain stopper.

My bathtub lift up. You can fix the two main type of bathtub drains the plug type and the lift and turn type yourself. Begin by removing the knob that is on top of the stopper. The drain in your bathtub closes to allow you to hold water in the tub such as for a bath or washing clothes. The knob is pushed down to close the drain and pulled up to open it.

An old style bathtub pop up is raised or lowered with a lever at the tub s overflow plate. A bath lift is a medical device for mechanically lowering and lifting individuals from a bathtub most tub lifts are battery operated controlled with a simple button device. 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. Rather than a lift bucket plunger that seals a drain opening at the bottom of the overflow tube there is a spring at the end of the connecting rod.

From box to tub in less than10 minutes. This type of stopper has a knob at the top. How to fix a pop up drain stopper. Other bath lifts include air cushion models utilizing air compressors and hydraulically driven manual bath lifts that use the weight of the individual to lower the lift along with the water buoyancy to help raise the lift.

Flip lever drain stoppers. A connecting rod with a spring attached to the end moves up and down inside the overflow pipe. 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. Some bathtub drain stoppers are operated by a flip lever mounted on the overflow opening on the tub.

A trip lever drain that operates a pop up stopper uses a slightly different mechanism. Here s how to remove a push pull tub stopper. Water powered bath tub lifts are generally not as nice to use as electric powered bath tub lifts. 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.

Old style mechanisms like the one shown in our illustration above and newer spring loaded pop ups. The hydraulic water powered bath lifts fill up like a bladder and no battery is needed. It s easy to remove a tub stopper to check it for mechanical problems or blockage. You ll encounter a couple of different types of bathtub pop ups.