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Shower drain incorrectly installed? (Strainer won't fit) mtco 02-04-2007
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Posted by mtco on February 4, 2007, 9:44 pm


I have a problem with what I suspect to be an incorrectly installed
shower drain. I've visited the local home improvement stores to check
out the parts of a shower drain, but still couldn't figure out how the
drain in question was put together.

Here's what the problematic installation looks like:

The strainer is a typical metal strainer with small metal "tabs" bent
towards the drain. (I don't know what the "tabs" are properly called,
but apparently they are for securing the strainer to the drain by friction).

The shower drain (housing?) is a typical design made with PVC. The wall
of the cylindrical hole in the middle of the drain forms the "outer
ring" of a 3-ring concentric structure (as viewed from the top).

The "inner ring" of the 3-ring structure is a PVC drain pipe.

Between the inner and outer rings is a black ring? or cylindrical? part.

The problem: the tops of the middle and inner "rings" is too high,
interfering with the "tabs" of the strainer.

(I'm going to post a crude ASCII-art drawing of the drain in a follow-up
message.)

Can anyone make sense of my description? If so, what is wrong with the
installation? What is the proper way to fix it so that the strainer can
be securely put in place as it was designed to.

Thanks.

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Posted by mtco on February 4, 2007, 9:50 pm


This is the ASCII-art drawing I said I was going to post. (Sorry about
the HTML formatting--it's done to make sure that the drawing is shown in
fixed width font.)

------------ <--- shower drain strainer
| | <--- small tabs bent to point downward

___ ___
'--... ...--'
||| ||| <--- Middle ring: black rubber?/plastic? gasket? (depth
unknown)
| | | | <--- Outer ring: PVC shower drain
| |
| | <--- Inner ring: PVC drain pipe
| |

Note: tops of drain pipe and gasket? too high, interfering with
the "tabs" on the strainer

Posted by mm on February 4, 2007, 11:02 pm



>This is the ASCII-art drawing I said I was going to post. (Sorry about
>the HTML formatting--it's done to make sure that the drawing is shown in
>fixed width font.)

The font I use to display my posts overrides the one you used! So
there!

I use Agent.

Although it uses a different font for display to me the reply I'm
typing. That one is fixed width, so it displays the way you wanted
it.

> ------------ <--- shower drain strainer
> | | <--- small tabs bent to point downward
>
> ___ ___
> '--... ...--'
> ||| ||| <--- Middle ring: black rubber?/plastic? gasket? (depth
unknown)
> | | | | <--- Outer ring: PVC shower drain
> | |
> | | <--- Inner ring: PVC drain pipe
> | |
>
> Note: tops of drain pipe and gasket? too high, interfering with
> the "tabs" on the strainer


Posted by mtco on February 4, 2007, 11:43 pm


mm wrote:
>
>> This is the ASCII-art drawing I said I was going to post. (Sorry about
>> the HTML formatting--it's done to make sure that the drawing is shown in
>> fixed width font.)
>
> The font I use to display my posts overrides the one you used! So
> there!
>
> I use Agent.
>
> Although it uses a different font for display to me the reply I'm
> typing. That one is fixed width, so it displays the way you wanted
> it.

Thanks for fixing the diagram. As you can see, my attempts using HTML
formatting weren't successful. On my 3rd try I reverted to using just
plain ASCII.

Posted by mtco on February 4, 2007, 10:01 pm


This is the ASCII-art drawing I said I was going to post. (Sorry about
the HTML formatting--it's done to make sure that the drawing is shown in
fixed width font.)

------------ <--- shower drain strainer
| | <--- small tabs bent to point downward
___ ___
'--... ...--'
||| ||| <--- Middle ring: black rubber?/plastic? gasket? (depth
unknown)
| | | | <--- Outer ring: PVC shower drain
| |
| | <--- Inner ring: PVC drain pipe
| |
Note: tops of drain pipe and gasket? too high, interfering with
the "tabs" on the strainer

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