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Remove and Clean Pop-Up Assembly

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Dropped Earrings Down the Sink… Here’s Where They End Up 😳

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What happens here

Locate the horizontal lever that controls the sink's pop-up stopper, usually located underneath the sink, attached to the tailpiece. Unscrew the small nut holding this lever in place and slide the lever out. From the top of the sink, pull the entire pop-up stopper assembly straight up and out of the drain opening. Clean the pop-up stopper with a paper towel, removing any hair or debris. Also, clean inside the sink drain opening itself, as items can sometimes get caught around the edges or further down the pipe before the P-trap. The video shows finding a second earring in the main drain line after removing the pop-up.

Goal: Remove the sink's pop-up drain assembly and clean it thoroughly, along with the drain opening, to ensure no items are lodged.

Tools and materials

  • Gloves

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started that's way better make sure that it's not in the hair so the next thing is we'll get right back here and we will pop the popup assembly lever we will unscrew that we'll move this out that way we can pull the popup assembly off we can just pop this up out of here oh I see it okay so yeah I totally see it if we get down right over there you see it sitting there it's actually a sitting right on the edge Oh no just flick it out yeah there it goes it dropped it did fall in there we found the matching set here take some paper towel just go straight down this popup assembly as well I tend to carry a couple of these around Flathead Phillips head just to be able to get stuff out the drains like this oh yeah and when it comes out like that it just is clean so now it's really cleaned down and it looks way better than it did

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