Today I'll be doing the silicone method of
installing a popup drain for cultured marble, because sometimes, the putty might stain the
cultured marble especially white cultured marble, and we don't want that. Today, I'll be using silicone instead. First we've got our cap, the top portion of
the popup. Around this, we're going to put our silicone
all the way around, just build it up nice and thick to make sure everything gets coated,
like so. I've got the silicone on all the way around;
we're going to insert that into our drain. Then on the bottom, we're going to feed our
popup assembly. With the popup assembly, we're going to want
to coat the inner portions of the parts with the silicone also, this way it's got it all
in the threads. As we tighten this up together, everything
gets siliconed up real good. In between both sides of the fittings, applying
the silicone, as well as to the top threads, all the way around the inside. Then back to our cap that goes up top; we
already put silicone around the outside. We're going to put silicone around the inside
also, that way when those threads get threaded in, they tighten up against that. Insert that portion in the top and put our
popup assembly up through the hole. Up top, we're going to rotate this all the
way on until it's seated nice and strong. That's about as far as I can go with that. [inaudible: 02:14] I'm not going to squeeze;
I'm just going to hold it to make sure, and I'm rotating the bottom portion until that's
nice and set. Going back down below, what we need to do
is make sure that the popup rod is facing towards the back. Now we can go ahead and tighten the net up,
pulling down and turning it into place. Before I do that, I'm going to go ahead and
put another bead of silicone around the inside of the top, pretty much all the way around,
like so. We're ready to tighten this up. It's going to squeeze the silicone out of
everywhere. Again, this is why you want several layers
of gloves. In fact, I'm going to put on more because
this way as it gets onto your gloves, you can just undo a layer if you need to. It makes clean- up a lot easier. Also when we go to remove the excess silicone,
it makes that easier too. We're ready to tighten this up; again, making
sure the popup is towards the back. Eventually, we'll reach a point where we're
tight. I'm going to go ahead and remove a layer of
gloves so I don't get the silicone all over my channel locks. I can use my channel locks to tighten this
down the rest of the way. This should be done until its 1/4 -turn past
tight. If you have two pairs of channel locks, you
can use one pair to hold the bottom. There is another way: You could take your
screwdriver and insert that in here, and then use that to hold. Just be careful because this particular one's
made out of plastic so we don't want to crack it. We're nice and tight. On the bottom, you'll want to take your gloves
and go all the way around, and just smooth this silicone in so that you've got a nice,
even spread all the way around. On top, just take all the excess silicone
out of here. We might have squeezed out through the top. At the bottom, going to put another little
bead of silicone just around the bottom thread and then smooth that in with a glove so that
it's nice and even all the way around. We can remove the popup rod nut in order to
lock it in there a little bit better behind it. That's all siliconed in. Put my nut back on just loosely so we don't
lose it. We'll let that all dry. Come back up top. Again, I'm going to remove another layer of
gloves. Down inside here, we're going to want to smooth
in the rest of the excess silicone to get rid of that. You don't want it slowing our drain down. There we go. We can go ahead and remove the blue protective
cover; just getting back under it a little bit. Go ahead and get rid of my gloves. Then maybe you take a rag and clean this up
or maybe the gloves. Take a rag for this one. Here we go. It might have been a better idea to take off
the blue protective film before, that way it doesn't leave any residue down in here. This is stuff is going to be a little tough
to get out. Always learning more. That looks good. We'll let that dry, come back and put it back
together, and test it out. Here goes the rest of the popup install. Going to take the rod and put it down here
in the back and down in the drain. Going to insert that popup plug and hold it
about here, making sure that the bottom hole is facing towards the back, like so. Then underneath, you're going to take your
rod and then slip the back on. You're going to feel with your other hand
the popup plug and insert the popup rod into the plug so that you're able to move the plug
up and down, like so. Once you get there, then you're able to thread
the nut on, taking care not to get it cross-fitted. Just tighten it down finger-tight; don't want
to over-tighten it. Next, you're going to take the extension,
undo the thumbscrew enough so that you'll be able to pass the rod down through the 2
holes, and then you're going to tighten the thumbscrew against the rod. What you're going to do is line up the holes
to the back where you want it to go. What you want to do up top is just raise the
post up to about so. Hold that with one hand. Here is inserting the rod on the clip. We haven't put the clip on yet, but tighten
the thumbscrew down first. Once the thumbscrew's nice and snug, now we
can take your clip, and we're going to push this back and feed one end of the clip on
the other end around, squeeze both of them, and pass it on to the rod. Hopefully you were able to see that. We put one end of the clip on, then the rod,
then the extension, then the other end of the clip on, like so, just by squeezing it. Now we're able to control our popup with the
rod. Now is going to be putting the trap back together. First, we're going to slip the slip-joint
plumbing over the popup assembly, and then slip the track up and over that. Then on the bottom of the track, we're going
to lift up and tighten this up. We just hand-tighten this until it's tight. We're nice and tight. Next, we're going to use our slip-joint plumbing
and tighten this down. Again, just hand-tighten nice and tight. We're ready for the leak test. Leak testing the popup and drain line: What
we want to do is go ahead and pull the plug, fill the sink up with water, and this way
we'll do our pressure test. Fill it all the way up then we'll pull the
plug, and then we'll check for any leaks down below as the weight of the water rushes through
the lines. Before we get to that point, we can go ahead
and feel all around for any leaks. So far, we're good. This overflow works as a relief to let the
air in, like the old can used to do. When you open a can and you puncture one side
and then you puncture the other opposite side so that your contents would flow out easier;
it's the same principle. Water's going down the overflow now. Let's go down here and check it out. I'm going to go ahead and pull the popup. We can do it up top or we can go ahead and
release it here. You hear the water going through. Again, we're checking and feeling for any
leaks, any signs of moisture, especially at any of the connections. Everything's nice and dry. That's thing popup. We can just pull the blue trim cover off which
just peels off. It's a protective covering. Everything is nice, shiny, and brand new. Good to go.