How to Unclog a Bathtub Drain

 Okay, now I'm gonna show you how to remove a clog from a tub. Um, using a manual drain auger. The first thing you're gonna wanna do is to take these two screws out of this overflow plate. Sometimes you will, on the overflow plate, will have a lever that's called a triple lever plate, and that is allowing you.

That will allow you to stop the water in the tub if you wanted to fill up the tub. In this case, it's just an overflow cover. Either way, you're gonna wanna take the screws out there, you take the cover off. Um, it's, like I said, it's either gonna have a cover that's just like this. You set that aside along with the screws, or it'll have, if it's the trip lever with the lever.

Um, you grab that and pull the whole thing out. It's gonna have a bunch of linkage that comes with it. Keep that all together and also set that aside. And then you're gonna go ahead and grab your, your auger here and on one side of the end of the augers is gonna be a thumb screw. You're gonna wanna go ahead and loosen that a little bit, and then allow you to pull the snake out of the drum.

And you're going to go ahead and. Angle it down 'cause your drain's gonna go down and you just took the head of the snake into the hole and it was down into the hole. And after a foot or so, it's going to, it most likely is going to stop on you. That's just where the, uh, the overflow pipe will intersect with the bottom of the drain there for the tub and to do, um.

To do that, it's once, once it's gonna stop you just go ahead and tighten your thumb screw here and give yourself a few inches of snake between the, where it goes into the overflow, and then where it goes into the, the drum, uh, the, the snake, and you grab your snake and rotate counterclockwise using a.

There at the end of the snake and with steady pressure going that way and holding it also steady so your snake doesn't flap around on you as you rotate and just slowly. Push the snake into the drain and then loosen your thumbscrew. Pull some more out of the snake, not the drain, and then tighten your thumbscrew again and then continue to rotate and just keep doing that.

Um, until you got the clog. You will know you have the clog through. Either the water that is already in the bottom of the tub is gone, or you could fill it with a little bit of water. Open the, open your tub up and fill it with a little bit of water. And then once the water starts to go down on its own, you have the, you have the clog either pushing it down further into the drain, or it just kind of flows on its own.

Or it will grab, the end of the snake will grab the clog, and then you could start pushing the snake back into, at the auger, back into the snake. And you will pull out the obstruction

with the snake itself, and then you could discard the obstruction and then you can go ahead and reinstall your cover or trip lever plate. 

Okay.