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If you don't want to read the story, scroll down to "Repair Question." I like telling my stories. 
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The master shower drain leaks and stinks. I know it leaks, and probably has for a long time, because there is rust, etc., outside at the floor level where the drain would be. It stinks because of whatever is down there. Every time I used it, it smelled like sewage for days. I moved into the second bath to let the master dry out entirely (two months) and I opened it. I'll spare you the horrors found inside, but I fled back to the second bath.
The thing is, even though dry, having disturbed the hairy monster, the sewage smell returned. It may not be a vent and rot issue as initially thought.
Today, I screwed up some courage, put on some exam gloves I stole from work, and grabbed my surgical angle clamps (that I did not steal, and altered to not lock the clamp). I gingerly pick up the rubber gasket and dropped it in hot water with bleach. Whatever shot the spores of stink would not do it again. The 20 years of hair and soap collection scrubbed away, I poured the solution over the drain so it could be santitized, too. Now I can see what I'm working with.
Repair Question
As you can see in the picture, I have the drain, a gasket that fits over the pipe, and the strainer that snaps in to direct the flow all down the drain. Supposedly all without glue or caulk. But the black ring on the drain hole is lifted on one side, and it looks like it used to have something sealing it with the strainer.
What should I use to secure that ring (it just sits on top, there it nothing over the edge of the fiberglass), and what, if anything, to seal the strainer? I imagine a rope of putty for the strainer might cover it all, but I thought I'd check with the experts.
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. The master shower drain leaks and stinks. I know it leaks, and probably has for a long time, because there is rust, etc., outside at the floor level where the drain would be. It stinks because of whatever is down there. Every time I used it, it smelled like sewage for days. I moved into the second bath to let the master dry out entirely (two months) and I opened it. I'll spare you the horrors found inside, but I fled back to the second bath.
The thing is, even though dry, having disturbed the hairy monster, the sewage smell returned. It may not be a vent and rot issue as initially thought.
Today, I screwed up some courage, put on some exam gloves I stole from work, and grabbed my surgical angle clamps (that I did not steal, and altered to not lock the clamp). I gingerly pick up the rubber gasket and dropped it in hot water with bleach. Whatever shot the spores of stink would not do it again. The 20 years of hair and soap collection scrubbed away, I poured the solution over the drain so it could be santitized, too. Now I can see what I'm working with.
Repair Question
As you can see in the picture, I have the drain, a gasket that fits over the pipe, and the strainer that snaps in to direct the flow all down the drain. Supposedly all without glue or caulk. But the black ring on the drain hole is lifted on one side, and it looks like it used to have something sealing it with the strainer.
What should I use to secure that ring (it just sits on top, there it nothing over the edge of the fiberglass), and what, if anything, to seal the strainer? I imagine a rope of putty for the strainer might cover it all, but I thought I'd check with the experts.
SC
