Customer Reviews for Oatey Round No-Caulk Brass Shower Drain with 4-1/2 in. Round Snap-In Stainless Steel Drain Cover

Worked great

Great bit of kit. Easy to use.

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this is the only shower drain to use the are great dont forget to use good silicone when you put the drain in the pan

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Very easy to install. Secured tightly

great quality, was perfect for my shower pan install....fit was excellent...comes with all that is needed, simple installation.....solid made drain....pay the extra and get this quality product , you only do the job once...…..do it right the first time.

Great product at a good price

This unit seems to be well made. It appears that the stainless steel strainer is not meant to be removed which then does not allow the pipe to be plugged for pressure testing. There was no label to provide guidance in this matter. Other than that, it looks like it will do the job.

Worked great

Worked perfect. Bought this after trying 2 of the plastic versions, both of which stripped. you get what you pay for.

Nice quality!No problems.Used plumbers puttyI do wish it came with a small tube of plumbers grease for the gasket.

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Replaced a similar drain that was 30 years old and it fit perfectly .The work took about 45 minutes. Most of the time was cleaning.Recommend Oates products highly.

I prefer this caulkless solid brass strainer over other glue type ones.

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Very nice product I like it much better than plastic. It was a very quick neat installation. However it does cost quite a bit more

Very easy to install and looks great

Full brass quality construction. No glue required for install, just a little plumbers putty around the ring and shower base.

Installed in shower base and connected to 2" drain line. Everything worked to perfection no leaks and was easy to install from above the floor. Highly recommended.

Yes. Not so difficult to fix the leaking with this great shower drain.

Awesome product and price.

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Very easy to assemble and we feel it's the best quality part

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I got this for use with the Aquatic #13232P 2 piece shower stall also sold at HD. Works great. One thing that is not 100% clear in the instructions is that the top flange needs to be bedded in sealant. I use the best silicone I can buy. The other option is to go with plumbers putty. I use plumbers putty for sinks all the time, works great, last a long time. However no one is generally standing in the sink. The silicone will be more elastic longer, which, I think will prove to be a longer lasting seal. The rubber and fiber washers are for the bottom. The rubber is the seal to the bottom of the shower. The fiber is to prevent the ring nut or "spud" as I like to call it, from binding the rubber seal. If the rung nut binds the rubber seal, it distorts and will not seal. Also put some kind of anti seize compound on the compression nut that is on the inside of the drain, and on the "spud" on the outside. If you have to take this thing apart ever, you will thank yourself for that. So why not plastic? This whole project was because a plastic fitting like this failed. That probably was not the fittings fault. I suspect it was not bedded correctly or what ever was used to bed it simply dried up or washed out over time. But ... when I had to get the old one out I had to destroy the compression nut and really boogered up the threads. The plastic seizes as bad or worse than the brass. Yet, the plastic is not durable enough to take the force required to unscrew it once it's seized up. Plastic is appropriate for a lot of things. This is not one of them in my opinion. This job ended up being a total tear out so no big deal. However, if I the situation was not as extreme the plastic fitting was not at all repairable. That would have resulted in a much worse problem. If you are putting the shower on grade / slab, install an access panel if you can. Then when you bed the shower with plaster lumps as the instructions say to, be careful to leave some strategically placed space between the lumps so you can get at the spud or ring nut on the bottom of the fitting. If you do that, it then becomes possible to replace this assembly down the road without ripping out the entire shower stall. The one good thing about fiberglass tubs and showers is that they can be repaired and re-gel-coated to better than original condition in place. I've seen the bottom carefully cut out of them to fix waste line problems, then seen them put back to new condition.