Bathtub Overflow Drain Not Lining Up

What i need is to fix this.

Bathtub overflow drain not lining up. Be careful not to cross thread excl. And the overflow may not be the correct angle. New drains include parts for the overflow and the drain. The drain pipe is sitting higher than the hole of the tub.

You can replace just this plate at your hardware store for a few dollars. This presents a problem when you need to plunge the tub. Place the flange in the drain hole. Large stand up shower stalls tend to have 2 inch pipes.

The gasket underneath the tub helps to complete the seal between the two pieces. The use of thread sealers like ptfe tape is not needed for this application. The tub drain threads into the drain shoe body of the waste and overflow and snugs up both to the bath tub. Problems with a leaky bathtub are often traced to the overflow tube or overflow drain assembly.

To complicate matters the pipe is offset from the tub hole by about an inch. If you have to hold your drain lever down for the tub to drain it is more than likely the tension spring on the back of the overflow plate. When you remove the drain stopper most times there are crossbars that the stopper is attached to these are used to back the drain out. Pipes in a tub drain are on slip nuts but there may be limits as to how much pipe is available to slip.

The actual drain pipe that s in the slab the plumber will connect to is probably 1 1 2 inch diameter. If you have enough depth you can do that or you can install the tub s tee where the drain is angle the lower connection towards the tub drain opening and then use the fittings to offset the overflow riser pipe to the opening. Reattach the drain pipe to the overflow hole in the tub. That s a common pipe size for tubs.

The overflow tube is a safety feature that channels water that has overfilled the tub back down into the drain pipes before it can spill over the edge of the tub. Plungers work on suction power and the overflow drain which doesn t close for obvious reasons acts as a big air vent that kills the suction. Hj feb 15 2008 2. Some are flat some are slightly angled.

The water entering the overflow drain goes into a pipe that feeds into the main tub drain. You also might run into a drain flange which is the finished and visible part around your drain hole.