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With both of us sick the past few weeks the shower got a lot of use. Because of this I found we had a leak in the drain from the shower. The floor between the bed and the shower was wet one night. I opened up the access point here and looked inside and besides finding the floor wet I also found cause, the pipe had come loose from the drain.
This was because the attaching collar had broken, and based on the amount of residue on the parts it had been this way for a while. So while this needed to be repaired it could wait a day or 2 until I could get the parts and get feeling a little better. But I had to seal the leak until then, so I used some of the duct sealing tape to form a funnel of sorts to direct the water into the drain pipe. I also added a foil tray under it to catch the drips.
To dry out the floor under the shower, I put a fan to push air through this area. On our Alfa See Ya, there are 2 access points for the shower drain pipes, one on the bedroom side and the other on the toilet room side. This dried most of the floor in a day and kept the drips from overflowing the tray.
Getting the parts needed was next. Because the factory used a glued in down pipe to the P-trap, replacing the collar nut required replacing the entire p-trap. The new p-trap uses a slip in down pipe so I can adjust the length as needed. There is no kit for this setup so I had to get each piece separately although I was able to reuse one of the gaskets and one elbow.
Because of the tight space I couldn’t fit my pipe wrench into the space and still turn the wrench. Even my strap wrench was too long. However my slip joint pliers just fit in and could grab just enough of the union nut to get it to turn. Once it was loose I could turn it by hand to get the old p-trap off. Then I used a rag to sop up the spilled water. All of this was done with one hand because that is all I could get into this access point.
Next I had to put together the new p-trap. I put the collar nut and the gasket together on the down pipe then put it on the new p-trap. I then checked the size to the old one and saw that I would have to cut a little off. This was easy with my PVC pipe cutter. Then peeling off the label because they do not seal very well.
The new p-trap comes with a 90 deg angle that I reused from the old one since this part is glued on.
Then slipping in the shortened down pipe, I could then work at using one hand to put on the new p-trap on the drain, then on the old 90 deg angle. The pipes being able to slip made fitting simpler. After tightening each of the nuts by hand I could then test the drain by running water trough it and feeling around for leaks. Another day of the fan then closing it up.
Post time: Jun-27-2017