Plumbing question

[fivemack]

I am particularly fond of long deep bubble-baths with an undemanding book.

Sadly, for the last few weeks I have been thwarted because my bath-plug has developed a hole. I bought a replacement thing purporting to be a bath plug from John Lewis, but it is of not quite the right shape and hence readily dislodged by currents of water, a defect essentially fatal to a bath plug.

What I can't see is how you replace a bath-plug-on-a-chain: the chain seems attached irrevocably to a triangular thing which is attached very firmly to the side of the bath. I guess the triangular thing would come apart if attacked vigorously with pliers of sufficient force, but am not confident enough that this is reversible to try it.

I suppose I pay the price of a return flight to Peru monthly so that I can ring the landlord and cause Tucker Gardner's pet plumber to be scheduled to solve the problem.

Comments

[numberland.livejournal.com]

Without seeing it I can't be sure but in general there is a (often triangular) loop with a break in it, you just plier it open and the attach new chain and squeeze it closed again. This may be what you are dealing with in which case it is easy to reverse but I can't be sure.