I'm redoing one of our bathrooms. The shower leaked into the kitchen ceiling because the mortar bed drain was not installed correctly. Taking the mortar bed off the walls and floor was a bad job. But that is over and the new shower installed (4 piece fiberglass). The new shower control is also installed but that is where my question comes from.
My wife liked the look of a Moen shower control better than a similar Delta I preferred. I've done 3 other showers (two were actually tub showers) and I am pretty sure I used Delta on the previous 3. I had difficulty soldering the brass body in due to some combination of piping done wrong during a previous install, old flux, and worn out cleaning brush. I finally got it on the fifth try. But the cartridge had to be removed and installed 5 times to make that work. It was more difficult to get to go off but we thought we got it. But last Monday I came home to dripping water in the kitchen. The shower control turned itself on, filled up the shower base, and then it overflowed and leaked to the floor below. I had a piece of cardboard over the shower base while I finished the drywall above the fiberglass walls. Quite a mess. I called Moen and they sent a new cartridge. Removing the old one, the side seals were not in place properly which is probably the issue. The new cartridge went in Wednesday night and there has been no further issue. I also don't leave cardboard in the base, however, just to be safe. I should get to paint tomorrow so there won't be a need for the cardboard soon.
Anyway, one thing I really don't like about this Moen is there is not definitive handle position for OFF. The instructions do not tell you which way to rotate the stem so it is guess, turn the water on, then turn the stem until it goes off. Frustrating and unnecessary. I think I at least contributed to the cartridge issue but I also think you should be able to put it in and out a few times and it still work. Makes me wonder how it will hold up.
Anyway, anybody put in a Delta recently? Did it have a positive position for off? Any issues?
My wife liked the look of a Moen shower control better than a similar Delta I preferred. I've done 3 other showers (two were actually tub showers) and I am pretty sure I used Delta on the previous 3. I had difficulty soldering the brass body in due to some combination of piping done wrong during a previous install, old flux, and worn out cleaning brush. I finally got it on the fifth try. But the cartridge had to be removed and installed 5 times to make that work. It was more difficult to get to go off but we thought we got it. But last Monday I came home to dripping water in the kitchen. The shower control turned itself on, filled up the shower base, and then it overflowed and leaked to the floor below. I had a piece of cardboard over the shower base while I finished the drywall above the fiberglass walls. Quite a mess. I called Moen and they sent a new cartridge. Removing the old one, the side seals were not in place properly which is probably the issue. The new cartridge went in Wednesday night and there has been no further issue. I also don't leave cardboard in the base, however, just to be safe. I should get to paint tomorrow so there won't be a need for the cardboard soon.
Anyway, one thing I really don't like about this Moen is there is not definitive handle position for OFF. The instructions do not tell you which way to rotate the stem so it is guess, turn the water on, then turn the stem until it goes off. Frustrating and unnecessary. I think I at least contributed to the cartridge issue but I also think you should be able to put it in and out a few times and it still work. Makes me wonder how it will hold up.
Anyway, anybody put in a Delta recently? Did it have a positive position for off? Any issues?
