Shower Stall Drain Question

[mscher]

The threads are stripping on the cheap/cheezy PVC drain in my shower and it is leaking around the brittle cheap rubber gasket. Silicone calking is only a temporary fix.

I'd like to replace it with a decent brass drain, but the only one Lowes sells, uses on the bottom, a rubber internal "compression" seal, that appears to simply slide over a 2" PVC drain pipe, verses some type of glued joint, normally used with PVC.

Is this a common design for a brass drain and can I assume that it should not leak for the rest of my life, or at least a few years longer than the lame pvc?.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Shower Stall Drain Question

Do you mean it slides inside the drain .... Not over the pipe? Most of the waste gaskets unter toilets now have a rubber type sleeve that extends into the pipe below it.

I imagine the design is good due to flex in the shower floor. Most of my drains are slip connections and with a little hope and a prayer I will out live them and not visa versa!! Installed properly it should last a long time..... 50 years or so!

 

[bucky7680]

Re: Shower Stall Drain Question

The inside of the new drain should have threads. The rubber is sliped over the drain pipe. There should be an internal ring that turns on the threads that compresses the rubber on to the pipe