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NCSUguy77 (MO)
New house and the cheap shower drain cover came off. It appears it was just sealed down with silicone after 1 month living in the house. Now looking at the picture below, is this installed correctly? Normally you see a drain sealed into it-- it appears like the shower tray itself has an outlet. Anyways what is the correct piece I need from Home Depot/Lowes to allow a snap in or screw in drain cover? I have to check if it is threaded outside the drain pipe. If its not threaded what would I need to do?
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packy (MA)
there is a flange missing on top... someone butchered that job and it should be redone properly.
if you don't have access from below, you are in trouble.
i would call the local plumbing inspector to see if he/she signed off on that job.
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NCSUguy77 (MO)
Sigh.. thats my fear. It appeared there's several small things like this that have popped up after closing on the house. It seems the builder had issues with with subs on some of the homes with small things like that.
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packy (MA)
you may be lucky and a flanged piece will screw into whatever is below. i emphasize MAY. i can't tell what you have there because there is so much silicone covering things. if you remove the silicone you may have a leak.
look here to see a few different drains. which one you have???
the thing is that normally the flange is dropped into the hole and the drain is tighten from the bottom. if you can tighten from the top ????
good luck.
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
The Oatey shower drains I use tighten from the top. The setup in the picture shows the pipe coming up near the surface of the shower base, I'm not sure what's going on there.
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steve (CA)
It might have an integral drain. It looks like it has a driven rubber seal inside the recess. The silicone was just for the strainer.
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NCSUguy77 (MO)
It appears to me that the shower trat simply has an outlet without a thread or anything. The 4" comes up inside with a gasket. I don't see anywhere that a screw down part of the flange attaches for a strainer to snap or screw down. Am i mistaken to think this? The house is brand new at $250,000. I would have expected better plumbing connection than this.
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steve (CA)
Some shower pans have a molded in well, that the drain pipe stubs up through. A rubber donut gasket is pushed/driven in, to seal the pipe to the sides of the well. The strainer has retainer prongs on the bottom that would engage a groove molded in the well, above the rubber donut.
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