Milanomike
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OK, I've got very poor flow in my hall bath, the tub/shower to be precise. Flow (or water pressure) is fine in the 2 bath sinks and everywhere else in the house. I checked pressure and I've got 60 psi in the house, just like my regulator says I should have, great. As I stated pressure is fine in every other faucet, tub or shower in the house.
The tub/shower unit is a single handle American Std from about 12 - 15 years back. I replaced both the cartridge and the anti-scald unit but flow remains poor. Surprisingly neither of the old units seemed too gunked up. I have not measured flow yet, but if I remove shower head, water flow does not even make an arc from the pipe, just drops straight down into the tub, same with tub spout. So, flow is low.
I have not removed the new valve and turned water on as valve is behind tile, so no place for water to go anywhere but down the wall and to my 1st floor ceiling where a potential mess could be made.
I'm thinking I remove the new anti-scald valve and cartridge and run something like 12 gauge wire into pipe near valve body, maybe something is blocking both hot and cold feed lines to the valve body? Daughter comes home from school in a week or so, so complaining will start.....
Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Mike
The tub/shower unit is a single handle American Std from about 12 - 15 years back. I replaced both the cartridge and the anti-scald unit but flow remains poor. Surprisingly neither of the old units seemed too gunked up. I have not measured flow yet, but if I remove shower head, water flow does not even make an arc from the pipe, just drops straight down into the tub, same with tub spout. So, flow is low.
I have not removed the new valve and turned water on as valve is behind tile, so no place for water to go anywhere but down the wall and to my 1st floor ceiling where a potential mess could be made.
I'm thinking I remove the new anti-scald valve and cartridge and run something like 12 gauge wire into pipe near valve body, maybe something is blocking both hot and cold feed lines to the valve body? Daughter comes home from school in a week or so, so complaining will start.....
Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Mike