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One advantage of the lever is that you can open and close the drain
with your toes.
This is important to me, because sometimes I've made the water too hot
or too cold and there was no room to add more water.**
Also, when I'm ready to get out of the tub, I can open it with my
toes, although for the last two winters, I've gotten out and let the
hot water sit until it's cold. (it takes about 3 hours) I can't seem
to waste the heat and the humidity.
The house is 26 years old, but I don't think the tub was used much the
first 4 years. The spring rusted out when it was about 18 years old,
and I couldn't find an exact replacement, but I had one that worked
fine. Of course I could have bought the whole plate & lever, with the
spring, for I think 3 or 4 dollars.
** I used plumber's grease to lube the hot and cold water faucets, so I
could adjust those with my toes also, but that is not as easy to do as
it was 5 or 10 years ago. I can still do it with two feet, but not
with only one. I think that is still better than it was when I bought
the house.
In Brooklyn NY the valves were on the side of the tub so I could just
use my hands. This is typical in NYC. The drain in this 30's
building was entirely outside the tub, a pipe that sticks up from the
floor, with a tube that pulls up a bit and twists to drain or plug the
tub. I taped the overflow, and untaped it when I moved out 10 years
later. When taped, the tub was so big, I could float my whole 5'8"
180 lb. body without touching the sides or bottom.
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