re: #516 Obdicut

OT:

Handyman advice needed.

My tub is blocked up. The overflow plate has a screw, but it’s totally rusted and I can’t unscrew it from the wall. The drain is a simple one, not a stopper-kind. Like this:

Image: bathtub%20drain-small.jpg

Am I better off trying to get the overflow plate cover off to send the snake down that way— and if so, how do you get a totally rusted-out screwed on plate to come off— or should I get the special tool to unscrew the bathtub drain?

Did you try Drano?

My lease, by the way, has one weird clause in it: that the landlord isn’t responsible for the plumbing. So I can’t just get him to do it.