husband was trying to clear the bathroom drain with one of those drain cleaner snake thingys sold on tv. It worked well on the sink after I took the stopper out for him.
He tried it on the bathtub drain with-o taking out the stopper. Our tubs have a stopper that is not removable unless you take out a screw located under the top of it. There is barely enough room to get the right size screwdriver in to the screw in the gap between the drain and the top of the stopper when it is pulled out as much as possible.
I am sure you can all guess where this is going. He got a lot of hair and gunk on the snake thingy and it broke. He cannot get the screw to come out.
We have tried liquid wrench, force, tapping the screw, etc... I am tired of having one tub out of order.
Any hints on how to get the dang screw out or to get the stopper out another way?? I am afraid that if we run any water in that tub then the snake thingy will go down the pipe so far we won't be able to get it out and it will be a major plumbing fiasco, more so than we already have.
He tried it on the bathtub drain with-o taking out the stopper. Our tubs have a stopper that is not removable unless you take out a screw located under the top of it. There is barely enough room to get the right size screwdriver in to the screw in the gap between the drain and the top of the stopper when it is pulled out as much as possible.
I am sure you can all guess where this is going. He got a lot of hair and gunk on the snake thingy and it broke. He cannot get the screw to come out.
We have tried liquid wrench, force, tapping the screw, etc... I am tired of having one tub out of order.
Any hints on how to get the dang screw out or to get the stopper out another way?? I am afraid that if we run any water in that tub then the snake thingy will go down the pipe so far we won't be able to get it out and it will be a major plumbing fiasco, more so than we already have.