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Is there anything I can do w/o a plumber? I have the water turned off to the whole house and don't really want to leave it off until tomorrow.

Unless you can access the rear and plug off the supply pipe(s), you are gonna be without water until you get a plumber!

Can't say for sure, but you are probably gonna lose some wall to gain access, so you could go ahead and open up the wall to get to the pipes. You could cut them off and solder caps, or even crimp the ends and solder if you are capable of that.

2008-11-30 15:21:57 by tifhamer

I show how I removed a stuck Moen shower cartridge using an Easy Out tool. I initially attempted to remove the sleeve of the cartridge using a tap ...

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No, only if it is grooved, look in the opening with a light to make sure the seat is smooth

2008-05-26 19:17:47 by Osiris

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Water trickles from tub shower faucet. Is cartride gone bad? I have 1700 series delta faucet. If the problem is with cartridge, where do I find information how to do it. Delta website gives very little info. Please help

Delta has a replacement policy with Home Depot or Loews. Call them. It is just a matter of you taking the cartridge with you and they will give you a new one. Free.

It is as simple as that.

I have done it a few times myself.

2007-02-05 21:42:45 by ajaison

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I am replacing the cartridge on a single shower faucet, but the old cartridge broke inside the pipe, now I can't remove it to install the new one?

There are a couple things you could try...
A) see if you can get the rest of the cartridge out with a needle-nosed pliers. If you can't,

B) have an assistant turn the water on very briefly. The water pressure should eject the broken cartridge. (Just make sure your not near the faucet when the water gets turned on as the part will be ejected at high speed.)

Good luck!

2007-06-03 20:09:26 by lilinate

I could not get the washers and springs out below the cartridge because they are flush with the housing.

Is there an easy way to get these out or do I need a special tool?

Could there be something else wrong with the faucet?

I've been at this a long, long time, it seems, and in all the years of trying to save my customers money by just replacing the bare minimum in parts has usually proven to be a fallacy. What you did was pull out the twist cartridges, replace them and left the seals and springs in the valve body, which really did nothing to help the leak. The seals and springs are the parts that apply pressure to the bottoms of those cartridges to keep the water from flowing out. The fact that they're stuck in the valve body is what the problem is. There's most likely rust, iron, lime, calcium, something in your water that builds up over time to cause this problem, as there is in most locations in the country. You'll need a small screwdriver to put down into the hole in the center of the seal, tip it sideways and pop it and the spring loose and out. When you reinstall new seals, if you do, put some vaseline on them beforehand, it allows them to get some lubrication while in the tight little sleeve hole, so the spring can actually do it's work. I've acutally found that many times, by the time I replace both cartridges and seals and springs, that we could have bought a new faucet with a warranty for just a few dollars more.

2009-02-08 08:44:09 by Tina