Guys, Dave here your Twin Home Experts want to go ahead and show you how to replace an
old tub drain. Alright folks, so some of the things that you're gonna need in order to remove and
replace that old tub drain is some good tools and that is going to be my
favorite is going to be this little guy right here it's actually a tub drain
remover it actually gives you a couple of options but it allows you to swipe
this down into the drain and it grips and it allows you to remove it now
if you don't have this specialty tool one of the things to consider is you can
use either a common household tool which is your needle nose a pair of channel
locks and a screwdriver and I'll go ahead and show you how to use that
application to remove the drain so it's come a little closer and let's get a
better visual of as you can see here's our tub drain right here you're going to
take your needle nose you're just going to drop them down like this then grab
your channel locks and what you're going to do is counterclockwise but you're
going to turn the needle nose pliers until he gets loose so now once it gets
loose you can just do it by hand by sliding that out like this and probably
takes about 7 to 8 turns and then you're able to successfully remove so now that
we've gotten over what tools is going to be required to remove the drain one
thing to consider and got a pet peeve this is make sure you offer protection
over your tongue as you can see a lot of these other videos show that the tools
go right on the tub if you've got a pressed steel tub those tubs are very
easy to crack or scratch so add some extra protection so if you do drop a
tool your tub is going to be protected. All right, so now the next step is what
should we move the drain. Now you're ready to install now something to
consider if you want a permanent solution is this. In this application I
love using ABS pipe and fittings and the reason why is because they're not going
to deteriorate it's much easier to snake and maintain and once it's glued you're
not ever going to have a leak. Now if you decide to go with this application which
is the old brass fittings style again nice it's gonna come in a
more decorative option versus an ABS but these types of wasted overflows there's
a lot of like rubber washers and nuts you've gotta be it's just a lot more
challenging to install especially if it's up to the ceiling this is a lot
more vulnerable to leakage especially if you're not a certified plumber to
install this. So might want to consider just going with an ABS waste and overflow
it's gonna last you a lot longer. Alright so let's go ahead now and let's get
underneath the house and let's go ahead and show you what that looks like we're
gonna go ahead and connect to this drain right here come in put a p-trap and
connect to the tub so let's go ahead and get started just want to go ahead and
show you the before. So we're gonna go ahead now see as you can see we're
putting our drain first this tub as the first step just so we can line
everything up and measure everything precisely. So this is in place now.
Now we can take our overflow and measure the distance which is gonna be this this
thing right here this is our overflow this can go up this does require that
two people do to install alright so the person inside the tub and the person
down below working together here. He's gonna hold the overflow from inside
the tub so we can get a proper measurement from here to the overflow. Yep. Alright
folks as you can see we've secured the lower part of the drain and now that's
the upper part which is the overflow you can see actually the screw right going
right through it here at the top. So now that we've got the upper and the lower
drain secured now we're ready to put what we call in the santee which is
this thing right here. This is the next one. You got to be mindful it has to go a
certain way you see the neck on this has to go like this which is the flow of the
drain I've seen it some times where they get installed backwards which is up. You
want it to go down like that. So now we're gonna set this in place and start
measuring the piping that goes between both of these here okay. So let's go
ahead and show you what that step looks like. All right so you can see where
we're gonna just take a piece of inch and a half height and we didn't blew
anything yet we just dried it in but just enough to get us this measurement
right here let me take a tape measure and line it up the best you can with
your eyes in this case the measurements about three three and a quarter so let's
cut a piece of three and a quarter inch inch-and-a-half ABS pipe
one of the things you want to do too is deburr after you cut the pipe because if
not we put a glue sometimes hard to get a good seal so just take a X effort and
clean the ends of the pipe after you make a cut. Alright so now we're ready to
go ahead and prefab the second pipe that you need to cut and that is going to be
the riser so again we're gonna dry it
connect it right now before we glue just to get our critical measurements now
that's in place and accurate now we can measure from the overflow down to the
top of our Santee and this cuts gonna be
12 and a quarter inches so let's get that alright so now let's remove all the
precise cut pieces and now we're ready to go ahead and glue everything together
using the proper glue which is gonna be ABS glue
the first thing we're gonna do is um glue our 12 inch piece into the overflow
yes like that
any what you want to do guys is when you glue it give it a twist once you glue it
all the way in twist it about a quarter of a turn and
that gets us a much better seal it takes all the air pockets out just again less
likely that you're ever gonna have a leak death alright now that the second
phase to this is going to be the small piece here that's gonna connect to the
drain
go ahead and insert that a little twist as well all right now we're ready to
glue the share Santee in
and again you just want to be just glue the the top two pieces for right now
around the since you can see we went ahead and glued the Santee on the
overflow first and then applied it to the connected it to the drain. As you
can see that's all in place we do like wiping our fittings just so you'll have
glue everywhere this is gonna get City inspected the inspectors do appreciate a
nice clean connection versus glue everywhere. Alright folks well that's what it looks like when it's
complete. Now we're gonna go ahead and install a very important part of this is
going to be the Pee Trap and the Pee Trap is a fitting that prevents sewer
gases sewer odors from coming up into your into your home. So a Pee Trap is super,
super important to be installed as part of this whole equation. Sometimes you
don't have to replace the Pee Trap when you do a tub drain replacement but in
this particular situation there is no Pee Trap so we're gonna go ahead and
install that. So this is the Pee Trap here. So we're gonna go ahead and put these two
pieces together line it up with our pipe so we can get a precise measurement
alright so here we are we're gonna go ahead now and install the pea trap
we installed what we call the dirty arm
now we're ready to put the trap 90 on first I'll just have to have a good eye
and make sure that everything is straight and lined up and it's typically
with ABS you've got a little bit of flexibility so if your off an eight of an inch
or even a quarter you're gonna be fine. All right so now we're ready to
put the most important piece which again stops the sewer gases from coming up
into your home as you notice we've glued both ends of one of the fitting and the
pipe along with the p-trap and that allows you to just at the same time connect both pieces.
Alright folks, well there you have it a completed tub
drain assembly using ABS pipe in a crawlspace. Let's go up above and get the
finished product and share a few tips there. One little tip guys and you don't
have to do it but we like doing it here at the twin home x vs we do apply a
little bit of pipe dope and the reason why we do that is because it lubricates
the threads in a way and also offers a little bit more seal especially when
you're screwing into the plastic okay so we're gonna drop the drain down into
that now you have to have a sense of if the threads are grabbing on to plastic threads
so you gotta be very, very careful so you go ahead tighten it first to make
sure they grab then use your tools to go ahead and tighten it down just like this
and again because the volume metal and screwing into plastic you do not want to
over tighten because you'll end up stripping up the threads. If you have enough
putty and again we will added a pipe dope on the threads we're gonna have a
nice tight seal. And as you start to tighten down you'll start to feel the
tension between the drain and the actual tub and then you peel the
excess pipe down so it's gonna look something like this.
Alright now let's go to the overflow now alright folks so now we're ready to
install the overflow plate and you just get yourself a screwdriver this can be a
little tricky if you want to line up dean screws to the center of the threads
inside the overflow don't you catch thread you line it up a bit
now you want to make sure I see this a lot I don't get it
a lot of times this gap it'll be facing up you don't want that to be facing up
you want it to be facing down so it has the water of travels it's coming down
into the top so that gap is here for the overflow I mean the tub ever only flowed
the water is going to come into here you and drain inside the drain and then this
just needs to get snug because behind the tub you've got a nice thick washer
One little secret that I like to offer is
I like having the screw in a vertical versus a horizontal and that's what it
looks like and the reason why again is that the water is gonna travel through
that versus settling and rusting out so just a little tip in the 25 years that
I've been doing this that's something that I'd like to offer you as a tip
there. All right folks well there is a complete
drain there. And now we're going to go ahead and install the toe kick that
simply is just the threads and the washer we just go ahead screw it down
this doesn't have to be super tight just hand tight just and there it is it's
called the toe kick. Well, folks there you have it how to install a tub drain. Now
you're probably wondering well what is a tub drain installation cost?
Well, depending on your plumber and if you're using a handyman or a licensed
plumber I've seen it range anywhere from about
$250 all the way to $1,200 again depends on accessibility depends on how much
pipe you have to cut out depends on what type of drain system you want but I
would factor in anywhere from as low as $250 and as high as $1,200. Well folks
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