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Sorry to have to bring this up again:
Anyone know of a source for a shower drain extension? Laying new tile over old, shower drain is now 1/4″ too low. Have checked EVERYWHERE locally.
Joe and Rich, thank-you for your earlier responses. The drain is PVC so it probably isn’t threaded (?) and the shower bed is already completed and tiled, and now retiled, so even if it is threaded, I would think raising it would muck up the seal.
I talked to Extend O Drain and the lady there promised the 4 3/8″ size would work. Two weeks to get it into my home burg. It doesn’t work. Maybe it would have if the tile wasn’t already down, but it is. The size I need is 4 1/8″ from the center of the screws, which Extend O Drain doesn’t make.
I am open to suggestions for material that I could cut an extender out of. Should be 1/4″ thick and, I would guess, water proof.
Anyone?
Thanks.
Rich Beckman
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Remember what John Belushi said to the "Penguin" in "The Blues Brothers"? This was during the scene when Jake and Elwood were sitting in her office.
Two things I can think of: One, rip up those tile adjacent to the drain to enlarge the "hole" around the drain, centered on the waste pipe. Use the standard size drain screen.
Two, using pipe with OD the same size as ID of existing waste pipe, attatch this to 4 1/8" drain screen. Slip this into existing waste pipe. Use PVC glue to secure. Problem here is you might need a pipe reducer to mate the screen and new pipe. If so, this would interfere with the clean, simple solution you desire.
*Rich, if I understand your question, you need a drain screen that is about 1/4 thick, rather than the standard thickness? Do you have the original one? Could it be used as a pattern to fabricate a replacement? Brass would be my choice to duplicate something like that, any small machine shop should easily cobble that sort of thing up. Sounds like your two screw holes and the OD are the critical points, this is not rocket science if you have the equipment.