Bathroom Shower Faucet

Fixing your shower faucet leak isn’t just about saving hundreds of gallons in a year; it can now be something you can do yourself! Yes, you can now stop that annoying presence of leaks and that perennial nighttime noise. Stopping a shower faucet leak problem is actually a simple task for you with the help of a few basic hand tools in your garage.

To start, understand that the main purpose of faucets is to let in and control water in your pipes, that basic turn-it-on and turn-it-off to have water running, or stopped. When there’s a shower faucet leak, the simplest task is to replace them. You can either shell out a hundred bucks or more for the labor cost and the price of a new faucet. Or, as suggested earlier, you can do it yourself. Sometimes when things leak, they’re still ready to be repaired and save; it’s not always true that a shower faucet leak means a part is worn out and should be replaced.

Here are the easy steps to get rid instantly of that shower faucet leak problem:

First, cut of the main water supply to the shower using a small pocket knife. This will allow you to work without getting wet, naturally. Then remove the shower cap or shower head handle and there you will find the screw inside. You then go to the second step which is to loosen and remove that screw. Make sure you place the screw safely aside, lest it rolls down the drain. We’re simply confronting a shower faucet leak here, not an additional task of retrieving that tiny screw!

Next get a smaller screwdriver and use it to lift the U-shaped cartridge retaining clip. Then remove the nut that locks the cartridge to the valve itself with pliers, remove the cartridge. Open the water and let the flow flush out dirt and debris clogging the passages in the valve body. An old toothbrush can be helpful to take off traces of dirt and grime.

Check the smaller parts, especially the O rings at the base of the shower. If worn out, then it’s high time it gets replaced. With the new one, or the cleaned old O ring, reinstall all the parts of the shower in order. Congratulations, you’ve just fixed a shower faucet leak!

Upon completion of the repair, let’s see the level of your success. Open the water line and let water run for some time. It could be that the leak problem will return, if the problem is still there, then maybe it’s time a cartridge repair kit should be acquired.

Or if you’ve successfully fixed that shower faucet leak, give yourself that congratulatory tap on the back, clean up the minor mess and return your tools to the garage. Then drive off to your next golf game. Or watch that DVD with your wife.