How To Repair Frozen Shower Diverter Valve

How to Repair a Delta Shower/tub Valve

The Delta shower valve is a very pop valve for home installations. It is one of the most common valves, virtually unchanged over the years.

1222B cartridge The inner workings of the Delta valve is a brawl with holes that line upwards with holes in the valve trunk. Both plastic and stainless steel balls are made, I adopt the stainless steel variety.

On the valve trunk side, prophylactic cups are held against the ball with small springs. Your replacement kit may come with a variety of spring shapes. Use the ones that friction match those that you took out.

1) Identifying the Delta shower valve: Await for a Delta logo. (if yours is a Moen, or Price Pfister, and so it is not a Delta) The Delta valve comes in a variety of finishes, but all turn on past pushing the valve handle up. Rotating the handle left and right controls the temperature. Full hot is about 270° of rotation from off. If it'due south a tub & shower installation you'll accept an additional button to select tub or shower operation.

Moen Puller 2) Purchase a replacement kit. Don't get for the cheap import. I adopt the stainless steel variety of the ball valve. The kit may come with more than parts than you demand in order to suit several models. In this case, having actress parts later the repair is OK. .

iii) To make it easy, purchase the Delta Loving cup Tool. I'll show you how to do with with and without this handy niggling tool, but it's definitely easier to remove and insert the cups and springs with this handy device. If y'all don't want to buy it, or tin't find it, I'll show you lot how to utilize a plain old Phillips screwdriver to get the job done.

Yous'll too need a Delta Valve Spanner (a.k.a. Delta Valve Wrench) to arrange the tightness of the handle operation once information technology's put back together.

Since nigh showers don't have a carve up shut off (similar a sink or toilet) you usually have to shut the water off to the entire house until the repair is complete. So, have everything yous need or might need set up, just in case.

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A word of circumspection: The valve body is suspended in the wall by three copper tubes. If you use excessive force to endeavor to take the front dome shaped encompass of the valve off, you can damage the 3 tubes and tear the valve trunk right out of the wall! This is going to exist very expensive to fix - and you'll be without h2o in the house the entire fourth dimension! In the video I'll show you how to remove the valve dome correctly - without dissentious the valve body - and how to utilize a silicone paste to make sure it comes off easy adjacent time too. If you lot scratch the dome in the process, don't worry, you lot can purchase another one at the shop.

Now you lot're fix to go along with the actual repair, which are shown in the video in the following steps:

Shut off the water to the business firm & open up a faucet to relieve pressure level
Remove the button in the eye of the handle (use a small knife if necessary)
Remove the screw property the handle on
VERY CAREFULLY unscrew the dome. Use aqueduct locks if necessary - avoid excessive force! If the dome does not unscrew easily see the video for techniques on how to unscrew it.
Remove the plastic encompass and prophylactic washer that was held in place past the dome
Remove the valve ball
Use the Delta valve tool or a Phillips screwdriver to remove the loving cup and jump set in the top two holes (the lesser eye hole does not have ane).
Re-get together in reverse order using a food grade silicone paste on the replacement cups and springs. The kit may come with several versions of cups and springs. Use the ones that match the ones you lot removed.
Insert the ball, with the two holes on the top side
Re-assemble the washer and plastic cap (a tab on the cap fits a groove in the valve torso
Apply silicone paste to the dome threads and then replace the dome
Apply a Delta valve spanner to tighten the collar inside the dome pigsty and so that the valve operates smoothly, but doesn't fall to the OFF position on its own.
Supercede the handle. The spiral pigsty is get-go from the handl's center, so check for proper orientation.
Turn the water dorsum on (gently)
Test valve operation
Replace the handle button

Time to complete	twenty min
Materials	towels, Delta valve kit, silicone paste
Tools	pliers or channel locks, Phillips screwdriver, Delta cut tool, Delta valve spanner, flashlight
Skill level	medium