This shower valve is stuck from not being used for the better part of last year. I thought to pull out the cartridge, apply silicone grease, re-install or replace if needed. There's hasn't been any leaks tho'. I have replaced moens 1222 etc but this looks different. There's no ID markings. I see similarities to Delta on UTube, but I am not sure. The handle turns just a wee bit, but it does slip and I will need to replace it anyway. I used a crescent wrench to rock it back and forth gently, but it's still about the same and I don't want to create bigger issues. Can the pros confirm from their experience if this is a delta and any tips or UT links on it's removal. Thanks.
No I hadn't. I re-watched delta faucet removal and I see what I missed. I think I am fairly certain this is a delta. The only thing I did right was not to put any Mr Olympia-bound-muscles on anything. I will re-try per the videos and see how it goes.
Can't see the hot or cold markings on the trim... can't see the screw locations on the trim... can't see the entire handle in the pic, and can't see what the handle looked like before it was disassembled. Doesn't look like a Delta to me.
Trim is marked hot/cold on left/right respectively. Single trim screw is at the bottom 6 o'clock position, angled to fasten into the ... neck?
Handle and round plastic wheel seem generic, not original but must have been updated at some point. There are no markings on them.
It's definitely not a moen, neck is too fat, and the moen puller doesn't fit nor is there anywhere for it to sink it's "feet" into.
The thick crome neck looks similar to what I saw on UT, you just pull it straight out towards you so you can have access to unscrew the big hex nut. Thus, I thought it must be a delta but you say no. What else could it be?
I agree. I have never seen a Delta with that handle style. But, many faucets are constructed similarly. The devil is in the details though as far as finding replacement parts. There are several clone brands that do interchange parts with their brand name equivalent.
It was a Brasscraft. However, I decided to service it before the cartridges got here. Cleaned out soap scum gunk and re-applied silicone grease. The handle is now turning freely as it should. The new cartridge as a handy back up. Thanx guys.
I live in a very old house, built in 1880, and the person who owned the house before me made some very unwise "upgrades". Every DIY project I start turns into a nightmare long story because of this.
I need to replace my bathroom faucet. I have copper water pipes in the basement. They go up through the basement ceiling to enter into the bottom of my bathroom cabinet. The place where the rigid copper supply line connects to the copper pipe is not accessible in some magical place between the floor of my vanity and the basement ceiling, I cannot see where the two connect. I have very old globe shut off valves further in the basement in the middle of the copper piping that can shut off the hot and cold water to the sink so that I don't have to shut off the water to the whole house. However, they are VERY old. Past experience in this house shows that if shut of valves are left alone, they cause no issue. If one attempts to shut them, they start leaking.The hot water shut off looks basically okay, I shut it and opened it without issue. The cold water shut off has oxidation crystals to an extreme that is unprecedented–it looks like some growth in a cave. I am afraid to mess with it because it could cause a leak. So right now, I can only work on this faucet by turning off the water to the whole house.
So, water turned off, I get my fat self under the sink, disconnect the water supply line from the hot water faucet, go to disconnect the water supply line from the cold faucet and cannot. I mean CANNOT! It is completely stuck. So, I aborted the mission, figured I'd deal with a nasty faucet for a bit, went to reconnect the hot water supply line, and now both are leaking. Water leaks from where the water supply line connects to the base of the faucet on both the hot and cold side.
I cannot tighten it enough to fix it. I am thinking my rigid chrome water supply lines need to be replaced. Yet I cannot get to where they attach to the copper pipe.
I am out of shape and caring for my disabled mom. I don't have someone who can help me lift. I would very much like to not have to call a plumber to help me. Here are the options I have come up with, but please tell me if there are more that I don't know about:
I might be able to cut the wooden bottom of the cabinet so that I can view where the water supply line connects to the copper pipe, but I have no guarantee that this will allow me to see it. I also may not be able to get it disconnected due to its age.
Could I cut the rigid chrome supply line and use a compression fitting shut off valve that is 3/8 in on both sides to attach the chrome supply line that I have to a new flexible supply line? Then I would also have shut off valves that work.
I looked up how to cut the copper pipes, could I cut the copper pipe where it comes out of the basement ceiling, then use a compression fitting valve to connect the copper pipe to a super long flexible supply line and thread the supply line up through the ceiling into my cabinet? If I do this, I don't know if I will be able to pull the old supply line and old copper pipe through the floor, couldn't the place where they connect get stuck and not be able to fit through the floor? I am also afraid to start cutting the copper pipes because I have never done it before. It looks super easy, but in this house things that are easy for others are not easy here. What kind of damage could I cause if I cut on the pipes? What could go wrong?
I could continue trying to disconnect the cold water supply line and if by some miracle my strength is enough to get it off, see if the new faucet can then be installed. I have an 8 in 1 faucet tool that looks like the red one made by Ridgid, so hopefully that will help. But, I am afraid my supply lines are so old that they will leak, possibly even worse, and if I don't install shut off valves I am stuck with no water to my whole house until I can get someone to help me out.
Is there some way that I can replace the washer and nut etc on the end of the supply line I have without replacing the whole supply line? Then I would have a new part to screw on to the new faucet.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks so much.
These pipes feed a utility sink I have in a small 8x10 room behind my 220 gallon saltwater aquarium. Originally I was careless about the water evaporation. Now it's all better. But this is what the pipes look like. Are these gonna corrode and need to be replaced? Or can I clean them somehow?
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