Did I Offend Someone With the Pump???

[qos]

I took a long, hot shower last night.
Then I closed the drain and took a bit of a soak.
Then my daughter came in looking for me, so I opened the drain, got out of the tub, started drying off -- and realized that the water was not actually going anywhere.

I flipped the handle up and down a few times. Each time it made a solid clunking noise, as if it was opening and closing whatever it is that keeps water in the tub or lets it out. But nothing actually happened.

I don't have any clog remover, so I left it to sit overnight, figuring that by morning the water would have drained.

Nope. It's all still there.

The water was draining fine during the shower. I think it was closing the drain that caused the problem.

WTF? So now I can't even get my bath water out of the house???

Are my water spirits pissed off because I have a pump sitting in my house, in preparation for the next possible flooding rain?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_storyteller_/]

Just sounds like your latch for your plug came loose or broke. Now it's stuck in the closed position.

That's just what it sounds like to me though.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Now all I need to do is figure out how to fix it. . .

[rocket-jockey.livejournal.com]

There should be a metal plate on the tub where the lever is mounted. If you remove that plate, you will have access to the top of the mechanism, and you may be able to see what's up with it. I've never had to repair one, myself, but that's the only way to get at it.

[princesca.livejournal.com]

It's a fairly easy fix. You unscrew the round plate that has the drain switch, then pull the apparatus out of the bathtub until you can see where/how it connects. You'll likely be able to figure it out once you've unscrewed it and pulled it out a bit.

This happened to ours, only ours got stuck in the 'open' position, so I couldn't take baths for awhile until I finally broke down and dismantled the thing.