I need help!
I had an old fashioned three faucet system for my shower/bath. This gave me full access to 100% of the available water pressure and full control over that pressure as well as the temperature.
A plumber just replaced all that with a single valve system (Gerber single control safe-temp pressure balance valve) that's a piece of garbage. Before he started, I triple checked with him and he assured me that everything would be the same with the new system. Clearly, he was lying worse than most politicians.
Now, a newborn infant has more water pressure than I do at the spout. In addition, the pressure at the shower head has been reduced, I have zero control over what little water presure there is, and this valve keeps me from adjusting the temperature to full hot as a people-are-too-dumb-to-do-it-right "feature".
This is **horrible**! I want to recover the ability and control that my original system had, which means I have two questions:
1. Is there any single valve system that I can easily replace this with that will give me the same 100% of the water pressure that I had before (at the spout as well as the showerhead), along with control over that pressure, and no limits on the temperature? I don't mind ordering from outside the US, as long as there's a company that will sell and ship to me, and as long as it's compatible with my plumbing. Also, in the same way that many showerheads use a simple ring as a flow restrictor that can easily be pulled out, if there are any single valve systems that can easily be modified to give me what I want, that is perfectly acceptible as well.
2. If the answer to the first question is no, how difficult would it be to rip everything out and revert back to the system I had before? I assume that someone still makes parts for that type of system.
I had an old fashioned three faucet system for my shower/bath. This gave me full access to 100% of the available water pressure and full control over that pressure as well as the temperature.
A plumber just replaced all that with a single valve system (Gerber single control safe-temp pressure balance valve) that's a piece of garbage. Before he started, I triple checked with him and he assured me that everything would be the same with the new system. Clearly, he was lying worse than most politicians.
Now, a newborn infant has more water pressure than I do at the spout. In addition, the pressure at the shower head has been reduced, I have zero control over what little water presure there is, and this valve keeps me from adjusting the temperature to full hot as a people-are-too-dumb-to-do-it-right "feature".
This is **horrible**! I want to recover the ability and control that my original system had, which means I have two questions:
1. Is there any single valve system that I can easily replace this with that will give me the same 100% of the water pressure that I had before (at the spout as well as the showerhead), along with control over that pressure, and no limits on the temperature? I don't mind ordering from outside the US, as long as there's a company that will sell and ship to me, and as long as it's compatible with my plumbing. Also, in the same way that many showerheads use a simple ring as a flow restrictor that can easily be pulled out, if there are any single valve systems that can easily be modified to give me what I want, that is perfectly acceptible as well.
2. If the answer to the first question is no, how difficult would it be to rip everything out and revert back to the system I had before? I assume that someone still makes parts for that type of system.