RustyNails
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In trying to fix the hot water on my shower, I think I messed everything up. Hopefully someone can give me a tip that saves me from calling a plumber.
A couple days ago I suddenly couldn't get hot water in the shower. I googled it and it sounded like I needed to adjust the limit stop inside the handle (I have a single-handle Delta shower). So I adjusted it and voila! the hot water was back. Only then I had a drip that wouldn't stop. So I unscrewed the tap handle again and messed around more. Not a good idea.
Now my shower not only still drips when "off", but there are two "off" positions. The water is full-on cold in what used to be the off position, and as I turn the handle counter-clockwise, it goes off, and then turns on again and is hot. Both "off" positions leave the shower dripping. I had to leave the limit stop out of the handle completely to be able to have a hot shower now.
It looks like I have somehow moved the valve's stopping point (I hope I'm using the correct terms, I had to look all this up online). The valve used to be set, in the off position, at the bottom of this plastic ledge (not part of the limit stop). Now one of the off positions is a half inch to the left of the old spot, and the other is all the way on the right side of the plastic ledge (so the water gets scalding hot without the limit stop, I have to be careful). I've attached pictures of the valve to show what I mean.
How on earth do I fix this so that it it back to normal, meaning when it's turned all the way clockwise it is off, all the way counter-clockwise is hot, and it doesn't leak?
A couple days ago I suddenly couldn't get hot water in the shower. I googled it and it sounded like I needed to adjust the limit stop inside the handle (I have a single-handle Delta shower). So I adjusted it and voila! the hot water was back. Only then I had a drip that wouldn't stop. So I unscrewed the tap handle again and messed around more. Not a good idea.
Now my shower not only still drips when "off", but there are two "off" positions. The water is full-on cold in what used to be the off position, and as I turn the handle counter-clockwise, it goes off, and then turns on again and is hot. Both "off" positions leave the shower dripping. I had to leave the limit stop out of the handle completely to be able to have a hot shower now.
It looks like I have somehow moved the valve's stopping point (I hope I'm using the correct terms, I had to look all this up online). The valve used to be set, in the off position, at the bottom of this plastic ledge (not part of the limit stop). Now one of the off positions is a half inch to the left of the old spot, and the other is all the way on the right side of the plastic ledge (so the water gets scalding hot without the limit stop, I have to be careful). I've attached pictures of the valve to show what I mean.
How on earth do I fix this so that it it back to normal, meaning when it's turned all the way clockwise it is off, all the way counter-clockwise is hot, and it doesn't leak?