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Tub overflow gasket replacement8/27/2023 Lots of great information on repairing the tub/drain if that is the cause for the leaking down through the ceiling while showering. With all those facts maybe you can give me a few possible things to try. It does get slightly worse when I run the water. Does water sit in the line when not being used? Only way I can see us having a drip underneath. This is a constant drip and as we don’t use that bathroom often it’s not an issue with the water going down while on. We have a bath fitter tub/surround over existing but they don’t really do anything with parts underneath so I don’t think it’s the workmanship. Any other advice u can offer me would be appreciated. My first thought is to cut a hole in the stained Sheetrock and see if there is a visible leak. My half bath downstairs which is right next to the closet has a pooling of water seeping in from behind the wall. I have a slight water stain in the closet first floor which is below the tub which again is upstairs. Under the upstairs tub I have pinpointed dripping every 20-30 seconds. Im not an expert but I have a serious issue in my townhome. Maybe I’ll just hang an “Out of Order” sign on it. Well, I don’t know what to do next and I won’t hold it against you if you don’t either. I don’t know if it is the remnants of a gasket or if it is old plumber’s putty or what. I see a fair amount of a light brown colored material that is here and there around the opening which flakes off if you touch it. So, as I look at the overflow opening there is this metal frame surrounding it, the wall of the tub and then it appears black plastic. When I say it broke I mean that the metal on one side of the slot on the screw head just disintegrated and now my screwdriver is useless. The right side has no screw and the rusty nasty screw on the left side broke when I tried to remove it with a screwdriver. This metal frame has positions for two screws, one on the left side and one across from it on the right. Now I can see the round hole where the water flows out, however, there is still the metal frame of the overflow surrounding the round opening. I removed the screw from the top center of the front of the overflow and that allowed me to remove the metal cover. The house was built 20 years ago and the overflow is not round but a square shape and has “Sterling” imprinted on the front. As such I have concluded the culprit is the overflow. There is no leak when someone is taking a shower, it leaks only when a body is taking a bath. My situation is that I have a leak in a plastic tub / shower combination. Hi Jeff, Thank you for your informative and helpful website. I removed the strainer screen and looked at the drain flange. This leak was coming from the drain flange/gasket/shoe tube connection. Remarkably no leak occurred when the tub was filled.īUT when the water drained that’s when a slow trickle formed from underneath the shoe tube connection. Since my tenant takes baths and said the leak is slow I decided to see what would happen once the tub was full of water. The next step was to fill up the bathtub just below the overflow cover plate. I ran the water and determined the leak wasn’t coming from any of the shower faucet connections or from water splashing behind the escutcheon plate.Īlso, there were no leaks from the cold and hot water lines. Hot & Cold supply line water connectionsīy the way, if you want to install shutoff valves it’s really easy to do with SharkBites.Drain flange, gasket, and shoe tube in the bathtub.Overflow pipe & cover plate, drain T, drain tailpiece, waster drain tube connections.Bathtub overflow gaskets or washers (usually accessible in the access panel).Shutoff valves (if you have any to the shower or bathtub).The faucet body behind the faucet handle.Leaks getting behind the shower escutcheon plate that covers the shower faucet handle.The showerhead and shower arm connection.The first action I took was to remove the access panel to the bathtub waste and overflow pipes. These Amazon links help support Home Repair Tutor, many thanks for using them.Drain Key for Unlocking or Installing Drains.Tub Drain Extractor Tool for 1.5″ Drains or.
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