Tutorial Bathtub Overflow Gasket Replacement
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2018
- An easy fix to a nasty problem. The gasket I used was a Danco Overflow Gasket #88350 purchased at Home Depot. The cost was under $2.00
The gasket is also available on Amazon (affiliate link): amzn.to/2Y0mMQh
My tub is a Bootz Mauicast Deep Soaking Bathtub (affiliate link): amzn.to/3kCYhBi
It's a awesome bathtub and a great value.
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People like you improve so many lives, even years later. Thank you 💜💜
The plumber said $245. I did it for $2.49 cent in 10 mins. Thank you.
When in doubt, check RUclips first. Plumbers will try and get you every chance they get.
Exact same issue. Had a contractor remodel my bathroom as well and a poorly installed bathtub overflow created the same waterfall affect on the floor below. Thanks for the video, saved me!
Thanks for sharing
The story and explanation made it so relatable. THANK YOU.
June 10th 2022
*Wife and I just moved into our new condo, and have similar problem. Thank GOD, no report from the neighbors downstairs of any leaks or damage. This video was a great help, thank you* !
Sorry for your misfortune but glad my video helped. Thanks for your comment.
I just went through this same scenario with a leak last night. My wife was using the tub on the 2nd floor then I see all this water (all of a sudden). I think your video has pointed me to our issue. I am going to investigate and test it tomorrow. Thanks so much!
This is great-thanks!! My pipe also doesn’t line up well so it was good to see that it didn’t have to! Also-I didn’t realize that when you screwed the cover in-that it pulled the pipe forward!! I though it was just sitting there loosely!! This was really helpful!
thank you! I didn't finish the video until after I got home from the store and installed. another vid i watched had a retainer clip. my bath does not just like this one. I'm so happy to finally take a bath without flooding the kitchen
Thanks! Very clear and great presentation, just what i needed!
Thank you. Just had the same thing happen tonight during my wife’s bath! I’ll be heading to Lowe’s tomorrow to buy a new gasket. I’ll need a new chrome cover as well since mine was cracked.
Did your replacement gasket work out for you?
Excellent video. Very helpful. Thank YOU!!!
Thank you! We had this issue, water was coming down to the downstairs bathroom vent. I'm off to get a gasket now.
Just purchased a new home and my kids notorious for over flowing tub. Next thing you now my kitchen ceiling bubbling. This video helped me find problem and fix it thank you.
Sorry to hear that but glad my video helped you. Thanks for leaving a comment.
I am about to cancel my 2 plumber appointments! Thanks!!!
Bad news for the plumbers, good news for you. Thanks for the comment.
Helpful, concise, and to the point, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks
Great video!
Same thing happened here after I replaced the drain plug. Daughter took a long long shower. We were watching TV downstairs and wife decided to go into garage to do laundry. Water was leaking from ceiling below bathroom upstairs. I thought it was the drain plug I had just replaced so I uninstalled it. Turns out I have a stoppage somewhere in the bathtub plumbing and the overflow gasket was deteriorated so water more than likely passed the overflow and leaked through there. That means another trip to the box store to buy a drum plunger and gasket. Thanks for the vid.
Wow thank you we had to fix this at 10:15 tonight and this helped soooo much thank you!
You were very precise with your time. haha. I'm glad my video was able to help you out.
Watching this at 11:49pm idk if that’s the cause of the leak coming down my bathtub but I’ll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the video
Mine was loose but still bought a new one . And some dry wall because it went right threw my ceiling ! Thanks for the tutorial
Good move. It's cheap insurance.
my ceiling is next. i have the awful bubble ceiling though
Thank you so much! Great video and very disruptive yet brief! Exactly what I needed to fix my tub!
Glad it helped!
Excellent video......
Thank you for informative and interesting video mine was more of a challenge with miss aligned and preloaded off center drsin pipe luckily on ground level. There is a complete lack of quality in modern construction obiously no QC.
Bill Dennis couldn’t agree with you more.
It’s a must for everyone!
Nice video, thanks!
Thanks because when I bought the replacement it seemed like it was too big and I didn't want to take it out of the packaging I thought it was hard for stiffer rubber so thank you much appreciated
Glad I could help!
For sure you just gained a new subscriber
Very useful. My old gasket, however had a lip that totally covered both sides of that drain that’s connected to the piping, not to the tub. I had to pry it off. Do you think it matters that I don’t have that anymore? This old gasket is 25 years old. It looks every bit . I literally just bought the same overfill gasket that you have.
Wow!! Some irresponsible contractor. How do they forget this?? thank you sir for sharing i really appreciate it!!
They don’t forget it. They believe silicon is sufficient. I brought a new one and fitted it with silicon. I have 0 confidence in my work. Pray for me.
My stomach would be in my throat, handled this better than I would have
I didn't handle it very well. The contractor did all sorts of incorrect things in addition to this gasket issue and I'm going to be taking him to Small Claims Court.
@@michaelerbreviews good luck!!
@@michaelerbreviews good luck with everything, I hope the outcome went well
Well done - thank you.
Larry Paris Thank you for your comments. I appreciate it.
I just heard dripping lol,, thank you for this video i just replaced mine !!
i have used many kinds of tools for two hours and can ' this get it out
Thanks !
Great video
Thanks!
What about if my flange has pins?
thank you
really too bad you dont have an access door. but it looks like you didnt need one. thanks for your clear pronunciation, i was able to watch this at 2x speed. nice work
Thanks for the video. This is exactly how my tub is. The plastic is not aligned with the cut on the tub. The plastic in the wall has very little movement. Besides, it has four guide pins which were supposed to come out through the cut of the tub. Due to misalignment, only three pins can come out. The fourth pin which is the top one stays behind the tub wall. Can I shave off the top pin so that the plastic and the tub joins perfectly? Thanks again. If I can share pictures, I will do so.
Sorry for the slow response. What did you end up doing?
Does it matter which side faces out, smooth or rough? Understand the slanted thick goes on bottom.
It should not make any difference,
Very well done video.
Thank you very much!
I have a question I just bought a new overflow plate to replace my old one because I seen the screw was to rusted and the new screw seems too short to reach it could I do anything
Visit a hardware store and get a slightly longer screw.
Does the gasket need to sit completely on the outside of the pipe ring or just in front of it? (Hopefully that makes sense.) I can't get my new gasket to stay completely around the edge of the pipe. The top moves down.
It's a gasket and is compressed against the tub by the pipe flange.
@@michaelerbreviews I understand that but don't understand if it is supposed to fit right around the outside lip of the back of the drain pipe ring or just floats willy nilly until you tighten it.
@@ScentJunkie03 willy nilly until you tighten it. It does not go around the outside of the pipe ring.
Thank you
You're welcome
Does it just sit between the tub and the drainpipe? My husband removed the drain linkage (though the "plunger" may still be in there.) Will the overflow work if the gasket is installed? We haven't taken baths for years because it leaks into the downstairs ceiling. (We do take showers!!! :) ). I can see there is no gasket in place.
We have old metal pipes.
The absence or deteriorated condition of the gasket is the most likely reason you are seeing leakage when the water exits via the overflow pipe. If that is the case, observation of the gasket should answer that question. Remove the cover and look at it just as I show in my video. If it has deteriorated or is missing, then replacing it should eliminate the leaking.
my screw is rusted and broken and cant get it out
Don't you want the thick part of the gasket to be "down" so that it provides the maximum protection where the water is flowing - which is at the bottom side of the pipe?
Your answer is 2:20
Seems like you would’ve been a better contractor for that installation. Seriously though, unbelievable that installer did not bother to include such an integral part to that drain system.
The contractor was not very detail oriented. This was just one example of his work.
I put plumbers putty on the sides of it on the in sides also. On the cover.
A plumber just told me $800 to change the over flow gasket. So here I am
Excellent. Hope it helps you save $795!
omg i hate those thingsss!!! can u do an uninstallation tutorial
I pushed it back and it broke off from the inside and fell in. What do I do now?
What broke off? The drain pipe itself? If that's what happened then you're going to have to use the access panel to replace the pipe. If you don't have an access panel, you're going to have to make one.
Thank you! Something that should have been clear as a bell when I installed the gasket, wasn't.
Glad it helped
Instead of Vaseline you can grease that they use for brake slide pins on brake calipers it has no petroleum so it will not eat away the rubber
Did it work?
Ken Flagg Yes it worked. No more bath water dripping in the soup cooking on the stove.
@@michaelerbreviews Excellent. We just discovered a similar leak so I'm hoping for similar results.
Thanks for a great video but the Danco part# is 88350 and NOT 88250. The number may have changed over the years but at the present time at Home Depot is Danco#88350.
My bad. Typo on my part. I've updated my description accordingly.
I was just wondering how this was the first time?
It was a newly renovated bathroom
This is what happened to me
Well done! Too bad your contractor was not as competent as you!
That was only the tip of the iceberg of how bad my contractor was.
My gasket is on the outside
I am here because the same thing happened to me. I took it apart and realized there is no gasket. This nut came loose and water leaked into places it shouldn't.
I hate it when that happens. Glad you figured it out.
If its rubber use silicone
Petroleum jelly will liquify the gasket
That's my understanding as well.
I don't know why this is the design that builders use. I had a ring that was completely disintegrated and fallen off in a condo. Luckily I never used the bath or I would have been flooding my downstairs neighbor. What a bad design. Every other pipe has a secure fitting, but bathtubs they just decided, yeah a foam ring well just set it in there what's the worst that could happen
I'm sure the origins of this would be interesting to know.
I wonder can I make turn off or close
and turn off or open when you lie down in bathtubs water half doesn’t go over I wanna put more water how I can do and how I can explain more better Sorry for bad English grammar
Biglove Levent No. But even if it were possible it would not be a good idea since the whole purpose of an overflow drain is to protect against the bathtub overflowing. If that were closed then youd lose the protection.
I pressed a large ball of modeling clay over the overflow in my apartment. I understand that it's there for a reason, but it was only like 1/2 way up the tub. Way too low for bathing.
Should I caulk around the plate after I’m finished?
After all Archimedes was right...
Yes, a great proof of that principle. haha
@@michaelerbreviews
Cheers.
So......it wasn’t fairly easy.
It’s not always easy. What’d you run into?
Poor engineering! They always have better parts, it's just not worth getting sick over the crap with the politics plus the stores and the non sense!!! All the new plumbing material is awesome plus the old copper, and then you see this! How could you have perfection on every part except an over flow? I've seen parts with inside threads, that would be more wise as the water has to place to go except down the pipe, glue, gasket, or not considering it's not under water pressure!!!! Annoying that they sell this shit!!!!! Now you could argue the gasket is compressed, not when it's off center or fails. A.b.s with an inside thread would last a life time
You skipped putting the gasket on..wasn't that the whole point of the video... lol
Better watch again
thank you