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SgtSaunders69

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My home was built in 2002, and I have a shower drain problem in the master bath (no tub here... just a shower). The problem is that the screw holes are broken, so there is nothing to attach the metal screen screws too. I'd like to know if I can remove the top section of the drain and replace it, without going underneath the shower into a crawl space. Looking into the drain, it appears the top section is threaded into the lower section... which is attached to the main pipe. There's even some soft silicon or plumbers putty extruding from the joint, which you can see in one of the photos at the link below.

In one of the photos there are numbers visible on the top circumference of the black drain pipe which the metal screen should attach to.

Photos are available at this URL..... https://photos.app.goo.gl/y376enoQ9R8Z1hpEA

THanks for your advice....
 
it appears that the drain is a typical one, but using ABS instead of PVC. That flange that the screen screws to has silicone under it (plumbers putty is often used as well) and the bottom of it is threaded so that a nut and washer below the tub tighten the drain to the tub. The drain pipe comes up the middle and has a rubber ring slid over it. Then a spanner type of wrench is used to tighten a threaded compression sleeve down onto the rubber seal. You would have to back off the compression sleeve, remove the rubber seal, pull the drain pipe away (from below), and remove the nut and washer holding the drain in place. Then you would replace that drain unit (quite common and inexpensive).
The letters/numbers on the top are ASTM (American Society of Testing Materials) standards.
I would use an easy-out and remove the screws, or drill them out and use larger screws.
I am surprised that the screws broke (?) or corroded off (?) in 17 years.
 
fixitron said:
it appears that the drain is a typical one, but using ABS instead of PVC. That flange that the screen screws to has silicone under it (plumbers putty is often used as well) and the bottom of it is threaded so that a nut and washer below the tub tighten the drain to the tub. The drain pipe comes up the middle and has a rubber ring slid over it. Then a spanner type of wrench is used to tighten a threaded compression sleeve down onto the rubber seal. You would have to back off the compression sleeve, remove the rubber seal, pull the drain pipe away (from below), and remove the nut and washer holding the drain in place. Then you would replace that drain unit (quite common and inexpensive).
The letters/numbers on the top are ASTM (American Society of Testing Materials) standards.
I would use an easy-out and remove the screws, or drill them out and use larger screws.
I am surprised that the screws broke (?) or corroded off (?) in 17 years.
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Thanks for the reply... I'll try your suggestion... sounds better than going down in the crawl space!
 
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