Lift Bucket Trip Lever Drain Stoppers

Drains with trip levers.

Lift bucket trip lever drain stoppers.

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. These drains have set screws under the lip of the drain. This type of drain stopper is sometimes known as a lift bucket. Danco bath tub overflow plate with trip lever chrome 1 pack 80991 4 6 out of 5 stars 381 eastman 35233 lift n turn bathtub drain assembly 1 1 2 inch strainer and stopper chrome finish.

Identifying which type you have will help you when it becomes necessary to fix or replace your drain stopper. In this case the plunger device may be a type of spring that connects to the horizontal rocker arm. The trip lever opens and closes the drain by moving the stopper up and down. Now that you ve replaced the trip lever on your tub drain you notice it isn t properly stopping the water.

It can be pretty annoying when you take a shower and the water starts puddling around your feet. If they aren t that alone might be the problem. The most common types of bathtub drain stoppers are lift and turn push and pull pop up toe touch flip it and trip lever. 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. This is usually due to the spring mechanism behind the faceplate. The first step is to unscrew the plate that holds the trip lever. Repairing the stuck bathtub drain lever requires removing the entire mechanism from the tub.

The lever on your bathtub operates the hidden stopper in the drain. Pull out the stopper assembly. Check that the two eyes where the threaded rod articulates are properly aligned. Some kinds of drain stoppers can make it rather tricky to routinely clean out the drain of hair and debris.

Have a drop cloth in the tub to prevent scratching it or losing the screws down the drain. 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. Watch this short video how to adjust the lever me. Sometimes however the trip lever operates a horizontal rocker arm that works a pop up drain plug that fits into the bathtub drain opening.