Just wondering if anybody has used one. We have a fiberglass stand up shower in our master bath and the drain is leaking. I have no access from the bottom or sides unless I cut a hole in the ceiling or wall. The leak is right over our light in the kitchen. I could probably put the old parts back in with new seals and silicone it in, but give the location and approximity to electricity I would rather not take the chance that it won't leak again. A new drain would be best IMO. This drain just slips over the drain riser, and seals with a rubber gasket right in the sleeve that slips over the drain riser. Then you put silicone on the underneath of the drain body and tighten 4 screws from the top. It has some wings that come out and seals the drain to the shower base. I can't find a lot of reviews on it and would rather find out from somebody else if this isn't a good drain to use. www.wingtite.com seems to be the only place to buy. My thinking is either is sucks and nobody else wants to sell it or the company wants to sell it themselves and make more money. If this will work it will save me a lot of time, money, and aggravation.

Call a plumber?

try it...........if it doesn't work, try something else.

If it were ME though; I'd cut an access hole.

I like to sleep nights.

if its the fiberglass thats cracked. call you plumbing fixture distributor. They have guys that can fix it. They drill little holes in the fiberglass and inject epoxy to support the base and can patch the fiberglass like new. If its the drain you might as well start cutting the wall or ceiling.

The fiberglass is fine and I just recaulked the shower. I actually only need a new strainer since the drain body itself and all the PVC pipe is fine. I can't find a strainer locally that matches the threads on the drain body. If I could it would be about a 15 minute repair. I'm going to give this new drain a try. I've got an internal pipe cutter so I just have to cut the old PVC pipe to get the old drain body out and solvent weld a new drain riser on it. After that this new drain will install easily.

I figure I don't have much to loose. If it doesn't work then I'll have to call a plumber and everything will have to be removed anyways. I'll be out about $120, but I'll have a few tools I didn't have before. If it does work then I'm good to go. This repair I can handle myself, but cutting into the ceiling and replacing and patching everything is a little beyond by comfort level.

like you say, it either will work or it won't.

You might give a thought to why it failed in the first place--are you a big guy? Did installers pack mortar under the shower floor to prevent deflection?

Also, how do you know it is leaking at the connection between riser and shower floor? It could be the P-trap...

Were it I, I would pull down my kitchen light, remove the junction box (make sure the power's off) and get up there with a flashlight while the shower is running to actually see where the leak is.

If you need to make a bigger hole, you can always install a big 4-tube replacement box light in your kitchen to hide the enlarged hole.

This way you would know...

There was plumbers putty sealing the strainer to the flange. When I tried to remove the screws on the strainer the whole drain turn on me. I think it loosened up from age and the plumbers putty was dried outand it failed. I just got the old drain riser out and things don't look too bad in the ceiling. It was just a small leak with a few spots occasionally. That's why I thought water was seeping in between the caulk. After I recaulked it leaked real bad. I probably loosened up the drain more from all the weight and time spent in there while recaulking. That left the drain as the most likely culprit.

I'm off to the home depot now for an adapter. The new drain needs a 2" pipe, but we have 1.5" down there. This shower doesn't know who it's messing with! LOL! I do have the plumbers # by the way, but I don't need it!

you have 1 1/2" shower drain?

Is the house especially old?

That surprized me too. The house is about 30yrs old, but this bathroom was added on I'm guessing 10-15yrs ago by a previous owner. Just for ****s and giggles I filled up the P trap again and I'll watch for wetness in that area just in case. I don't see a junction box anywhere and there's no mold. I think I caught the leak early on. Everything is cut premilairly, but now I have to wait for the drain to come to finalize everything before I put it all together. Measure twice and weld once. I don't think the riser is long enough to take a second crack at it.

step down from 2" to 1 1/2" will be a place for hair and stuff to accumulate. Just sayin so's in the future if you get slow drain action, that could be the spot/cause

It accumulated in the drain anyways. I have to clean it out about once a year or so.

Well, I have a plumber coming tomorrow. Before you start laughing it's not what you think. The shower repair worked out well and we were using it for a week with no new water spots. Saturday morning water started dripping into our new kitchen cabinets right above where the toilet is located in that same bathroom. I flushed it once more and the water started dripping again immediately. Everything on the top is dry with no drips or puddles anywhere and the toilet seems secure to the floor. Cracked flange is my guess but how it got that way I don't know. This is after we've had our boiler repaired twice in the last month (by the plumber and the 2nd repair under warranty was because the 1st circulator pump he installed failed). Everything seems to be breaking at once and I don't know why. I'm hanging up my pipe wrench and calling in reinforcments. We're still using the shower and that's ok so far, but I'm going have him check out my repair work. I don't trust anything in this house anymore. I may only be able to afford PI's after tomorrow. LOL!

This is getting better every second. I bought a new toilet since I figured they would have to pull the old one and was just hauling it upstairs and the box contents sounded a little loose. It't bust in the box. I didn't drop it, but I'm going back to Home Depot now to create a sceen and get another toilet at a discount for my troubles. I expect the lightning bolt to take me out any time now.

nobody should be ashamed of EVER calling a plumber.

sign on the side of plumbing service truck:

'We fix what your husband repaired'