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Posted by Jark on July 14, 2007, 7:33 pm
Thanks! I like your idea about going through from an ajoining room/
space. I can always cut in from beneath my kitchen sink which backs
it.
J.
>
> > Hi, first time poster here - hope I get this right :)
>
> > I tried using a snake on the bathtub drain and, as with the sink, I
> > started using the other end of the snake (tail end?); one without the
> > screw-a-ma-giggy.
>
> > Well, it worked on the sink real well for starts but on the bathtub it
> > sounded like it poked through somewhere because it sounded like it was
> > thrashing around inside the bathtub cavity itself!
>
> > Does anyone know if they ever use rubber flexible pipes on tub
> > instalations? I'm afraid I might have created a costly repair for
> > myself.
>
> There are Fernco couplings that are often used in drain connections.
> See this site:http://www.fernco.com/coupling.asp
>
> Do you have an access panel that allows you see the drain, perhaps in
> halway or closet?
>
> If you had knocked one section of pipe out of the coupling, I assume
> you'd know about as soon as you used the tub because it would now be
> draining into the open (more or less).
>
>
>
> > I stripped out a section of calk and no water seems to be leaking so
> > far..
>
> Stripped out a section of caulk and looked where?. I'm not sure where
> you would have stripped out caulk to inspect a leaky drain.
>
> > I'm wondering if I might have gone up into the overflow spout
> > and ruptured that - if so maybe its not too big of a deal. Any
> > thoughts would surely be appreciated.
>
> If you went in the drain and up the overflow, you would have only
> gotten a very short length of snake in the drain, like no more than
> the distance from the drain to the overflow. If you had more than that
> amount in the drain, I doubt that's where you ended up.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jark- Hide quoted text -
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