Help: Water running to tub spout and shower head simultaneously
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05-09-13, 08:09 PM
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Help: Water running to tub spout and shower head simultaneously
I have installed the shower valve (it is a Moen Banbury 82910) The shower valve is right side up but water is flowing out of my shower head and tub spout when the water is full blast. I have come across sites that say that pex has a narrower inside diameter than copper so I should replace the piping to the tub spout with copper. I don't really want to open up the wall again and ironically it wasn't doing this before I sealed it up.
I am thinking to use sharkbite connectors and cut back the pex and add copper to the tub spout. Or I can replace all of the pex from the bottom of the valve with copper. I am wondering if anyone else had this problem of water coming out of the shower head and tub spout (without the diverter being activated) and what they did about it.
I am thinking to use sharkbite connectors and cut back the pex and add copper to the tub spout. Or I can replace all of the pex from the bottom of the valve with copper. I am wondering if anyone else had this problem of water coming out of the shower head and tub spout (without the diverter being activated) and what they did about it.
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05-09-13, 08:58 PM
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I'm not in the plumbing department but I have a few observations.
Usually the tub spout supply is of a solid construction like pipe or copper. You would fasten that copper or pipe to the framing behind the wall so that when you screwed the tub spout on it was solidly held in place. If you use Pex..... what will hold the spout in place ?
Also...... I seem to remember that the spout has a pull up handle that shuts off the water flow to it and sends it all to the shower head.
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Usually the tub spout supply is of a solid construction like pipe or copper. You would fasten that copper or pipe to the framing behind the wall so that when you screwed the tub spout on it was solidly held in place. If you use Pex..... what will hold the spout in place ?
Also...... I seem to remember that the spout has a pull up handle that shuts off the water flow to it and sends it all to the shower head.
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05-09-13, 09:22 PM
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The error of my ways
Yes I was looking at the instructions and it does say to use copper or IPS pipe only to the tub spout so I am going to replace the PEX with copper hopefully this will solve everything. Thank you for your reply and picture.
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05-09-13, 10:40 PM
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