@txhotdavid Sorry I took so long to get back to you, But you have a two or three handle tub and shower valve. You going to need to cut it off and the main to the house. If you have a basement it should be at the basement wall facing the street it may be behind a panel or in a closet. If no basement look in the room with the water heater and furnace, of outside on the side of the house.
@txhotdavid if you live down south you should find it outside close to the building wall and some times in the garage behind a panel or in the utility room were the water heater and the furnace is, Good look.
@plumberx Yesterday i started to work on my shower handle without turning off the water supply and see if anything happen, I was wrong, I got blasted with hot water lol. Beginners mistakes lol. Then I had to ran outside and try to find the water supply stop valve, it was in the front of my house and was covered in dirt from all the years. So i had to dig all the dirt out and manage to trun of the water supply.
@plumberx At the point i though "omg what am i doing, i dont know anything about plumbing" i was so scare lol. Oh and it was 37 degrees outside and i was covered in water and was trying to dig dirt out to find the valve. Once I got that done, the rest of it was pretty easy. The only tricky part was trying to put the seat in first before the faucet valve because it was so small it kept on falling out.
What's up if you replace the seat and stem, and the shower is still leaking? It's cold water, so just replaced the cold side. Figure if the hot side had an issue, the water would be hot.
@xmanni02 After replacing stems washers and seat and that don't work, It could be the seat is not seating right and the seat could really be lose and not fitting right. This happens when its not the right seat for your faucet. Its time to replace the tub and shower valve. I know Och!
@elchicho25 Sorry guy but no. The stem comes all different size and thread time. Some times the threads don't match or the Size. To make sure you get the right stem. I would take the stem to True Value or Ace Hardware There pretty good at matching them up for you. Chances are when your community was built every one in the community more then most likely have the same type of plumbing fixtures, So the True Value or Ace Hardware would go with the community Plumbing needs. Good Luck and thanks
I replaced the valve stems and seats on my two handle shower. When I did the water flow was drastically lowered and whenever someone ran water elsewhere in the house the water temp would change. I bought the new stems from Home Depot but it was for a three valve system like for a tub shower(this is for a shower stall. Any idea what I did wrong?
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I have a question about fixing my leaking bathtub faucet. It is a two handled one just as in the video. I know what I am looking for when fixing these but in our apartment I can not shut off the water to fix the leak. It started just about a week ago and we have lived here about 4 months now. Am I going to have to get maintenance in here to deal with it due to the shutting off the water? Just curious because its like running uphill getting them in here to do anything.
@lostrealist4388 Yes your right If your in an apartment you don't want to work on it. Leave it to the maintenance Personal. Because the cut off may supply the hold building. I know it can be a pain waiting for the Maintenance Personal I really don't have an answer for you in this. Sorry. You may have to go over the Maintenance personal head to get some thing done. I hope you not paying the water bill
I have a similar setup in my apartment with 3 knobs. The left for hot water, the middle to divert the flow of water from the shower head to the tub faucet and vice versa and the right for the cold water. I have been having temperature fluctuations during showers. What would be the cause of this and is there a quick fix? Please let me know. Your videos have been very helpful. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Thanks!
@GLOCK23 One thing it could be when your taking a shower some one ells may be using water ells were causing a drop in pressure. The best this you can do for this is change out the three handle to a Posi temp tub and shower valve and they only come in single handle. But your going to want to talk to the meatiness guy first. One other thing it could be. If the washer on the hot side is to large in the stem it can swell up after getting hot and cut or slow down the flow of hot water. Good luck
Our house is one of the ones that has some oxidation and we're having trouble getting the knob of the faucet off. I don't want to pull too hard for fear of breaking a pipe. Any suggestions? Thanks!
@plumberx- i cleaned the calcium that had built up and it did the job :D thanks again! one problem/question: a bathroom's sink faucet upstairs is making some noise when we open the hot water (btw, the one i fixed is the hot side of a tub faucet from a bathroom downstairs). it sounds like the pipes making the noise. any idea why?
@gorgeouss79 Yes its sounds like a loose washer. remove the stem and tighten the washer. This also happen's when the toilet fill valve starts going bad and trapping air. But yours sound like a loose washer. Good luck and thank you for your comment :-)
Thank you PlumberX, I couldn't figure out how to get the stem out of the wall, and I just looked up "2 Handle tub" and your video was the first result.
@plumberx: First, thank you for posting this. I learned a lot from this video. I replaced the stem (house is 50 years old, it took a special order to replace the stem). However, the knob now doesnt turn all the way (hot water side~ didnt replace the cold water one). do you have any idea why? fyi: this particular knob was never able to turn all the way ever since we bought the house in 2004. any help would be great, thanks. oh, i can show you pictures if you want. thanks again. (female plumber)
@gorgeouss79 Yes if you could send me a photo. Sounds like you may have hard water. and this tub and shower valve may have not been use very much it the pass. This would cause calcium built up in the valve body limiting the movement of the stem. If you could get the stem out oil it up and clean the calcium out of the valve itself with a small wire brush like one that you would use to clean copper pipe fittings.
I thank you for this video. I attempted to repair the hot water faucet but I was hendered by the stem being too deep in the wall, I was told that a "hole" was to be cut into the wall behind the faucet, Once again, thank-you very much!!
What model is that faucet? Mine are exactly the same. I am without water right now because I can't turn the water off in the shower. I guess the washer busted.
Thanks for the video... it's been about 15 years since I did any faucet repairs. So, I didn't want to PAY a plumber, but wasn't sure I remembered what I needed to know. You rock! Thanks!
Thanks much, I have to replace my tub faucets but wasn't sure how to do it. Your demonstration was both professional and easy to understand..thank you sir.
Very clean and basic. Thankyou! My procrastination though made my hot water now a small constant stream...OUCH! Too late to fix myself? Must I call a plumer?
Straightforward! Very good basic step-by-step tutorial. My "duh" moment was realizing I needed the right tools! (So much for my jerry rigging attempts.) A sincere thanks.
Sounds like you have( american hat washers or just hat washer ). Very old faucet, but you can find them at one of your plumbing supply houses or Ace hardware is pretty good for carring older parts. Good Luck.
@getalongsonny Than you very much for the nice comment :-) good luck on your job.
plumberx 2 weeks ago
Great video. Thanks.
joshg2fl 1 month ago
Where do you turn off the water supply at before you start? By the way awesome video, its very helpful! :)
txhotdavid 3 months ago
@txhotdavid Sorry I took so long to get back to you, But you have a two or three handle tub and shower valve. You going to need to cut it off and the main to the house. If you have a basement it should be at the basement wall facing the street it may be behind a panel or in a closet. If no basement look in the room with the water heater and furnace, of outside on the side of the house.
plumberx 3 months ago
@txhotdavid if you live down south you should find it outside close to the building wall and some times in the garage behind a panel or in the utility room were the water heater and the furnace is, Good look.
plumberx 3 months ago
@plumberx Yesterday i started to work on my shower handle without turning off the water supply and see if anything happen, I was wrong, I got blasted with hot water lol. Beginners mistakes lol. Then I had to ran outside and try to find the water supply stop valve, it was in the front of my house and was covered in dirt from all the years. So i had to dig all the dirt out and manage to trun of the water supply.
txhotdavid 3 months ago
@txhotdavid
txhotdavid 3 months ago
@txhotdavid Lol I'm not laughing at you i'm laughing with you we have all been there. Glade you didn't get hurt. Thank you for the comment :-)
plumberx 3 months ago
@plumberx At the point i though "omg what am i doing, i dont know anything about plumbing" i was so scare lol. Oh and it was 37 degrees outside and i was covered in water and was trying to dig dirt out to find the valve. Once I got that done, the rest of it was pretty easy. The only tricky part was trying to put the seat in first before the faucet valve because it was so small it kept on falling out.
txhotdavid 3 months ago
@plumberx Now my tub is leak free and im so proud of myself for doing it all by myself. Thank you plumberx
txhotdavid 3 months ago
Thanks great do it yourself vid!!!!
tvideoman2000 3 months ago
@tvideoman2000 thank you very much for the nice comment :-)
plumberx 3 months ago
Thank you for the vid.
willgny 4 months ago
What's up if you replace the seat and stem, and the shower is still leaking? It's cold water, so just replaced the cold side. Figure if the hot side had an issue, the water would be hot.
xmanni02 5 months ago
@xmanni02 After replacing stems washers and seat and that don't work, It could be the seat is not seating right and the seat could really be lose and not fitting right. This happens when its not the right seat for your faucet. Its time to replace the tub and shower valve. I know Och!
plumberx 5 months ago
Are the stem fittings to the water line a standard size?
elchicho25 6 months ago
@elchicho25 Sorry guy but no. The stem comes all different size and thread time. Some times the threads don't match or the Size. To make sure you get the right stem. I would take the stem to True Value or Ace Hardware There pretty good at matching them up for you. Chances are when your community was built every one in the community more then most likely have the same type of plumbing fixtures, So the True Value or Ace Hardware would go with the community Plumbing needs. Good Luck and thanks
plumberx 6 months ago
I replaced the valve stems and seats on my two handle shower. When I did the water flow was drastically lowered and whenever someone ran water elsewhere in the house the water temp would change. I bought the new stems from Home Depot but it was for a three valve system like for a tub shower(this is for a shower stall. Any idea what I did wrong?
ricks4654 6 months ago
This is much better than expert village videos, thanks!
Zastrus 9 months ago 4
@Zastrus Wow that's an awsome comment. Thank you very much :-)
plumberx 9 months ago
@Zastrus
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TheYolandasanta 7 months ago
@Zastrus
BUENO...YO QUEDE GRINGA POR QUE NO ENTENDI NI PAPA SOLO LO QUE CAPTE -PERO LO QUE QUIERO SABER ES COMO SE COLOCA EL BERRACO EMPAQUE YA HASTA COMPRE UNA YAVE INGLESA Y NADA QUE PUEDO -Y DONDE HAY UNA OPCION PARA PODER TRADUCIR POR QUE DE TRES O CUATRO VIDEOS QUE HE VISTO ESTE ES LE MAS EXPLICATIVO PERO EN INGLES...
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TheYolandasanta 7 months ago
muchas gracias me sirvio muchisimo aunque no creo que lo entiendas pero muchas gracias
naylito26 10 months ago
@naylito26 Yo lo entiendo. Gracias a mi amigo para el comentario
plumberx 10 months ago
I have a question about fixing my leaking bathtub faucet. It is a two handled one just as in the video. I know what I am looking for when fixing these but in our apartment I can not shut off the water to fix the leak. It started just about a week ago and we have lived here about 4 months now. Am I going to have to get maintenance in here to deal with it due to the shutting off the water? Just curious because its like running uphill getting them in here to do anything.
lostrealist4388 10 months ago
@lostrealist4388 Yes your right If your in an apartment you don't want to work on it. Leave it to the maintenance Personal. Because the cut off may supply the hold building. I know it can be a pain waiting for the Maintenance Personal I really don't have an answer for you in this. Sorry. You may have to go over the Maintenance personal head to get some thing done. I hope you not paying the water bill
plumberx 10 months ago
I have a similar setup in my apartment with 3 knobs. The left for hot water, the middle to divert the flow of water from the shower head to the tub faucet and vice versa and the right for the cold water. I have been having temperature fluctuations during showers. What would be the cause of this and is there a quick fix? Please let me know. Your videos have been very helpful. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Thanks!
GLOCK23 10 months ago
@GLOCK23 One thing it could be when your taking a shower some one ells may be using water ells were causing a drop in pressure. The best this you can do for this is change out the three handle to a Posi temp tub and shower valve and they only come in single handle. But your going to want to talk to the meatiness guy first. One other thing it could be. If the washer on the hot side is to large in the stem it can swell up after getting hot and cut or slow down the flow of hot water. Good luck
plumberx 10 months ago
Our house is one of the ones that has some oxidation and we're having trouble getting the knob of the faucet off. I don't want to pull too hard for fear of breaking a pipe. Any suggestions? Thanks!
bephare 10 months ago
@plumberx- i cleaned the calcium that had built up and it did the job :D thanks again! one problem/question: a bathroom's sink faucet upstairs is making some noise when we open the hot water (btw, the one i fixed is the hot side of a tub faucet from a bathroom downstairs). it sounds like the pipes making the noise. any idea why?
gorgeouss79 11 months ago
@gorgeouss79 Yes its sounds like a loose washer. remove the stem and tighten the washer. This also happen's when the toilet fill valve starts going bad and trapping air. But yours sound like a loose washer. Good luck and thank you for your comment :-)
plumberx 11 months ago
Thank you PlumberX, I couldn't figure out how to get the stem out of the wall, and I just looked up "2 Handle tub" and your video was the first result.
Chewyrobbo 11 months ago
@Chewyrobbo Glade I could help. Thank you for the comment.
plumberx 11 months ago
@plumberx: First, thank you for posting this. I learned a lot from this video. I replaced the stem (house is 50 years old, it took a special order to replace the stem). However, the knob now doesnt turn all the way (hot water side~ didnt replace the cold water one). do you have any idea why? fyi: this particular knob was never able to turn all the way ever since we bought the house in 2004. any help would be great, thanks. oh, i can show you pictures if you want. thanks again. (female plumber)
gorgeouss79 11 months ago
@gorgeouss79 Yes if you could send me a photo. Sounds like you may have hard water. and this tub and shower valve may have not been use very much it the pass. This would cause calcium built up in the valve body limiting the movement of the stem. If you could get the stem out oil it up and clean the calcium out of the valve itself with a small wire brush like one that you would use to clean copper pipe fittings.
plumberx 11 months ago
Cheers! Lot of help.
mxxparker 1 year ago
This was a great help. You are a champ. Thanks mate.
territorian99 1 year ago
@territorian99 Your welcome glade I could help. Thank you for the comment
plumberx 1 year ago
I thank you for this video. I attempted to repair the hot water faucet but I was hendered by the stem being too deep in the wall, I was told that a "hole" was to be cut into the wall behind the faucet, Once again, thank-you very much!!
87nupe 1 year ago
@87nupe I do understand. I'm glade I could help. And thank you for stopping by. Have a great day.
plumberx 1 year ago
I'm grateful that there's people like you who are willing to share their knowledge with other.
God Bless
stev0Atkins 1 year ago
@stev0Atkins Thank you glade I could help :-) Have a great day.
plumberx 1 year ago
Thank you Sir,this is the best video on youtube on this subject. Now off to fix my leaky faucet.
JKDud 1 year ago
What model is that faucet? Mine are exactly the same. I am without water right now because I can't turn the water off in the shower. I guess the washer busted.
JiveDadson 1 year ago
Thanks for the video... it's been about 15 years since I did any faucet repairs. So, I didn't want to PAY a plumber, but wasn't sure I remembered what I needed to know. You rock! Thanks!
roopull 1 year ago
@roopull Yea we all need to save money these days. Glad I can help. Thank you for the comment. Have a great day. :-)
plumberx 1 year ago
Why thank you for the nice comment. Glade I could help.
plumberx 1 year ago
Thanks much, I have to replace my tub faucets but wasn't sure how to do it. Your demonstration was both professional and easy to understand..thank you sir.
skychurchify 1 year ago
Most Home Depot and Lowes or even Ace Hardware
plumberx 1 year ago
where can i buy a set of tub wrench's at?
NishaHa2g6 1 year ago
@NishaHa2g6 Most Home Depot and Lowes or even Ace Hardware, Good luck and thanks for watching PlumberX
plumberx 1 year ago
@NishaHa2g6 your the only damn person on youtube who did the basic out and in video. your the man thank you!
azizhousecallz 1 year ago
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made this basic training and easy. Everyone needs to view and save this video. Thank you a million.
edfarttt 1 year ago
Very clean and basic. Thankyou! My procrastination though made my hot water now a small constant stream...OUCH! Too late to fix myself? Must I call a plumer?
Raylentio 1 year ago
@Raylentio Thanks. Yea procrastination gets the best of all of use. Good luck !
plumberx 1 year ago
Straightforward! Very good basic step-by-step tutorial. My "duh" moment was realizing I needed the right tools! (So much for my jerry rigging attempts.) A sincere thanks.
Jaalto 2 years ago
Thank you for watching. have a great day
plumberx 2 years ago
This is very informative. Thanks for posting this. Saves me some money lol
STLGrimm 2 years ago
Glade I could help. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my videos.
plumberx 2 years ago
very good , however mine has tiny cup shaped washers , how do I know what to get?
stymye 2 years ago
Sounds like you have( american hat washers or just hat washer ). Very old faucet, but you can find them at one of your plumbing supply houses or Ace hardware is pretty good for carring older parts. Good Luck.
plumberx 2 years ago
very good
ronplanes 2 years ago
Thank you very much
plumberx 2 years ago