Bath Shower Home Design

Home › Plumbing › Drain Repair › Unclog a Bathroom Sink Without Chemicals Unclog your bathroom sink without using chemicals. Overview Photo 1: Pull out the stopper Tug on the stopper to see if it'll come out. If so, remove it. Photo 2: Remove the clog Fish out the hair clog with a bent wire or other tool. Run water through the drain and replace the stopper. Photo 3: Unscrew the pivot rod Unscrew the pivot rod nut and pull out the rod. Lift out the stopper. Clean out the hair and reinstall the stopper and pivot rod. Slow-moving or stopped-up drains are common in bathroom sinks, but luckily the fix is usually simple and takes only about 15 minutes. The problem is caused by hair and gummy soap scum that get caught on the stopper or pivot rod and clogs the drain. To get at the clog, try lifting out the stopper (Photo 1). Sometimes it'll come right out. If it doesn't lift out, it's held in by the pivot rod. Release the stopper by removing the pivot rod nut and pulling out t...

One of the options when installing a tile shower is to use a pre- made fiberglass shower pan (which is exactly what I ripped out of my original shower ) but I didn't want that look, or to be constrained by the dimensions that are available.  I wanted a 'custom' shower. Therefore I settled on a " deck mud shower floor " which is made of multiple layers of cement with a PVC liner in between them.  I wouldn't call this a starter DIY project , but if you are even a little bit comfortable with working with mortar, it is completely doable by the average homeowner. Diagram courtesy of Oatey The quoted price I got for someone to just pour the floor and install the liner (not including any of the previous work I had already completed, or anything to do with the shower walls) was a little under $1000.  Yeah.  For that money I knew I could do it myself.  There are a TON of great tutorials out there about how to install a shower floor.  The method I used is most accurate...