Waste screw not long enough??

[Drunkn Munky]

I ordered a complete bathroom suite from trueshopping and the waste screw for the bath waste is not long enough to pass through the waste grid, bath and into waste mechanism. Are longer ones available? or can they only be purchased as a kit. I will be calling trueshopping tomorrow but i want to get the bathroom finished asap so if i get get a screw elsewhere then i will.

 

[Phil]

The cheap wastes that come with baths are rubbish really, I'd go to a plumbers merchant first thing tomorrow and buy a brass one like in the link, or at the very least another cheap waste, the cheap ones are only £2-£3 anyway.

Or you could use a tempory bolt (it will be a metric thread) and get the manufacturer to send you a replacement and just swap them over when it arrives, this will allow you to finish.

Don't forget 'normal' bolts will rust.


Chrome Bath Combined Waste & Overflow Plug & Chain in UK at Discount Prices

 

[Puddle]

Why do bathroom manufacturers always have to supply rubbish wastes in there bathroom kits, at their costs surely it would not be much more to provide decent stuff
I do not do many bathrooms now but when I did, I would quote for bathroom installation and at the end add 'x' for bath, sink wastes and w/c handle, customers always windged and I would say if I can used ones supplied will but if not then that’s the cost, once they arrived showed customer rubbish and supplied mine, same thing with alot of kitchen sinks

 

[johnsco]

Have just experienced the same quality problem with the waste for our own new bathroom basin.
The height adjuster screw at the bottom of the plug is made from ordinary steel and is rusting already.
If you look down the plug-hole, the mechanism is also rusting as it's made from ordinary steel.
Don't these cheap manufacturers know that ordinary steel rusts in water ?