Crick74
New Member
Hey, I have an issue going on that I have to fix immediately and I don’t know a lot about plumbing but I am handy enough to learn if I have some good advice.
We have a home built in 1962. In the bathroom we have a tub with a shower head too. Several months ago I wanted to replace the tub spout bc we were no longer able to get the shower turned on. When the diverted was pulled up, the shower didn’t start….it’s like it just went limp or loose, nothing would happen. So I thought the best fix was to simply replace the faucet and shower head. I twisted the old faucet off and when I did that I ran into my first problem. On every modern faucet I have seen there’s a few inches of copper piping that comes out of the wall to attach a faucet onto, but this one barely had any piping coming out. There was a very short nubbin barely sticking out w some threading on the end and none of the new faucets I saw at Lowe’s would fit on it. And I could not get the old faucet back on enough to be secure.
I hate to say it but I just left it this way bc it was obviously going to require more time and work and I just didn’t have the time then. Few months later my daughter tells me that her carpet is wet and it is obvious that it’s related to the tub bc the tub is on the other side of the wall from where the carpet is wet. Since I tried to replace the faucet I have noticed that no matter what I do, a little trickle of water constantly comes out of the tub faucet , even when the handle is turned to off position. I went up under the house and it has been leaking down through the wall and under the house.
My question is this..do you think this is related to the faucet ? Or is there a leak in one of the pipes behind the tub in the wall? I obviously need to put a new faucet on . Do they make one that will fit mine or will I have to replace the copper piping that extends out into the tub area to connect the faucet on to fit a more modern faucet? I want to do the easiest fix. Will this probably fix the leak or do you think I’m looking at a leak behind the wall? What should my first step be? Cut hole in wall? Thank you so much. Justin
We have a home built in 1962. In the bathroom we have a tub with a shower head too. Several months ago I wanted to replace the tub spout bc we were no longer able to get the shower turned on. When the diverted was pulled up, the shower didn’t start….it’s like it just went limp or loose, nothing would happen. So I thought the best fix was to simply replace the faucet and shower head. I twisted the old faucet off and when I did that I ran into my first problem. On every modern faucet I have seen there’s a few inches of copper piping that comes out of the wall to attach a faucet onto, but this one barely had any piping coming out. There was a very short nubbin barely sticking out w some threading on the end and none of the new faucets I saw at Lowe’s would fit on it. And I could not get the old faucet back on enough to be secure.
I hate to say it but I just left it this way bc it was obviously going to require more time and work and I just didn’t have the time then. Few months later my daughter tells me that her carpet is wet and it is obvious that it’s related to the tub bc the tub is on the other side of the wall from where the carpet is wet. Since I tried to replace the faucet I have noticed that no matter what I do, a little trickle of water constantly comes out of the tub faucet , even when the handle is turned to off position. I went up under the house and it has been leaking down through the wall and under the house.
My question is this..do you think this is related to the faucet ? Or is there a leak in one of the pipes behind the tub in the wall? I obviously need to put a new faucet on . Do they make one that will fit mine or will I have to replace the copper piping that extends out into the tub area to connect the faucet on to fit a more modern faucet? I want to do the easiest fix. Will this probably fix the leak or do you think I’m looking at a leak behind the wall? What should my first step be? Cut hole in wall? Thank you so much. Justin
