Brand new delta diverter shower value installed. Been working great for a week. I had all studs exposed and thought it might be wise to put a new system in while I did a remodel. I Installed, soldered, and cement board and tiled. All was well. Functioned normally. No leaks whatsoever.
Tonight, water starts bursting out of the tub spout, and I mean flowing. I try turning off the water obviously thinking it was triggered by my cat or something but it did nothing. I run downstairs and shut off the water to house.
It's not coming out of the shower head, just the tub spout. I thought oh crap I must have soldered something wrong but that doesn't really make sense because it's a strong flow of water coming out, indicating a nice pressure. It's dry to the touch when I pop the echelon off. Which leads me to the diverter.
The cartridge is brand new, everything is new, however, I didn't use any plumber grease to set it properly. Like on the rubber rings was I suppose to glue that? But, that wasn't something I thought was necessary as I am not familiar with plumbing.
So I'm not sure what the deal is here. I found another thread from another forum where multiple people had this same issue with Delta systems. The people on that site had no resolutions other than one person resolved it by pushing the cartridge back together that seemed to be loose. Over a period of a couple years a few people posted the issue but nobody resolved it.
The manufacture says to replace the spring and rubber pieces and then if that fails to replace the cartridge itself. This is crazy and seems like it could be a major pain in the ass if I have to remove the entire valve, re plumb, re cement board, re water proof, re tile. If this is the case, I will never buy delta again and would caution against it.
I'm going to run out and buy the replacement parts and test that tomorrow, but guys in the thread I spoke about tried that with no success.
It's all copper 1/2" and installed correctly as far as I can see?
Wondering what you guys might think?
Tonight, water starts bursting out of the tub spout, and I mean flowing. I try turning off the water obviously thinking it was triggered by my cat or something but it did nothing. I run downstairs and shut off the water to house.
It's not coming out of the shower head, just the tub spout. I thought oh crap I must have soldered something wrong but that doesn't really make sense because it's a strong flow of water coming out, indicating a nice pressure. It's dry to the touch when I pop the echelon off. Which leads me to the diverter.
The cartridge is brand new, everything is new, however, I didn't use any plumber grease to set it properly. Like on the rubber rings was I suppose to glue that? But, that wasn't something I thought was necessary as I am not familiar with plumbing.
So I'm not sure what the deal is here. I found another thread from another forum where multiple people had this same issue with Delta systems. The people on that site had no resolutions other than one person resolved it by pushing the cartridge back together that seemed to be loose. Over a period of a couple years a few people posted the issue but nobody resolved it.
The manufacture says to replace the spring and rubber pieces and then if that fails to replace the cartridge itself. This is crazy and seems like it could be a major pain in the ass if I have to remove the entire valve, re plumb, re cement board, re water proof, re tile. If this is the case, I will never buy delta again and would caution against it.
I'm going to run out and buy the replacement parts and test that tomorrow, but guys in the thread I spoke about tried that with no success.
It's all copper 1/2" and installed correctly as far as I can see?
Wondering what you guys might think?
