20 Most Recent Delta & Single Handle Shower Faucet - Page 9 Questions & Answers

This video should help you out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AipEYoYiIhc

Well this means you have a pipe up stream of the faucet that is made of steel and not protected from rusting as with galvanized or copper or plastic pipe. If during the new install you used a black iron nipple or pipe fitting it is rusting and this will continue to happen. If you did not add any of the above then one of the older fittings or piping has begun to rust. It happens with older fittings and piping after it has been in use for years and then disturbed when retrofitting new fixtures and piping. It may not be anything you did wrong it's just part of plumbing new with old.

Many single-handle shower mixers have a hot limit, usually limiting the throw of the handle. You could go to the mfg's website (www.deltafaucet.com) & find instructions for adjusting it. Or, if you're handy, you could take off the handle & have a look; it shouldn't be too hard to see what's stopping the handle from turning more towards the hot side. Make changes in small increments & remember where you started.

There is a safety limiter in the shower control. This essentially limits how far towards hot you can set the control. Yours sounds too low.

What you do is tape the drain, so you do not loose any small pieces, remove the lever handle, usually an allen, and then you can see what is limiting movement. Ususally a gear affair.

Scribe with a small scratcher, the current position, and Reposition it some in the direction you would thing gives more hot water...and test the hot temprature.... either you will have more or less, and then adjust accordingly.

You need to take the handle off...ususally held on with a small allen screw on the bottom side of the handle. After removing the handle there should be a dial setting.

Sorry you will need to go through Sears to get that info.

There is not water pressure adjustment on this faucet if the pressure from the shower head has gone done from what it was after the new install remove the shower head and clean it and make sure any inline filter screens are without debris.

Those faucets are made by different companies and they put their name on them. Delta Price Pfister most likely. Sorry but you will need to pull it apart and see which it is. That is a hardware brand faucet and may be made by any of the major brands.

Replace or clean the ball. Go new they don't cast much and trying to clean one out is a pain in the --

This link should help you through the process as most all delta faucet are vertically the same.

IT CAN BE YOUR PIPE IS IS TO SMALL. YOUR SHOWER HEAD NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. YOUR MAIN OUT SIDE NEEDS TO BE TURNED ALL THE WAY UP.

You did not line up the flat spot on the stem before you tighten the set screw down.

When a Delta Scald Guard will not turn off, more than likely it is because the seats have worn out. Turn off the water supply and open any faucets lower stream of the shower unit. Using an allen key, locate the set c=screw in the handle and back it out. Next,Remove the Phillips screw holding the handle in place.Next turn the retaining ring counter clockwise and pull the catridge out of the faucet.Some catridges have two parts front and back. Behind the back part id two small rubber washers called seats and two springs. Install two new seats and springs and everything else in reverse order.

Not hot water should not exceed 120 degrees. If it does it will continue to melt the seats.

A metal ball controls the temperature and flow of water from the spout in the vast majority of Delta single-lever faucets. That ball rests on three rubber seals, each seal suspending the ball with a single spring. Over time, wear on the seals, the springs and even the ball itself typically results in leaks. Thankfully, repairing the faucet is relatively simple, and Delta even makes repair kits with the replacement parts needed for each model.

Turn off the valve that controls the main water supply. The valve is located next to the water meter, inside or outside the house, and must be twisted in a clockwise direction.

Remove the plastic cap from the center of the faucet's handle by prying the cap free with the blade of a dull knife or a flat-head screwdriver, then remove the screw in the center of the faucet handle with a Phillips-head screwdriver. Pull the handle off the faucet assembly to remove it

Remove the single bonnet nut that surrounds the faucet valve with an adjustable wrench. Grip the bonnet nut at the base, which is ribbed to give the wrench a surface to grasp, and turn in a counterclockwise direction to remove it.

Remove the circular, white plastic cam that surrounds the top of the faucet, pulling it off and revealing a rubber seal, which you also remove. Next, pull the metal ball out of the faucet assembly and pry out the ball's supporting rubber seals and their springs with a screwdriver (the springs slide onto the bottom of each seal, so they will come out along with the seals).

Slide one replacement spring onto each of the three replacement seals that come with the Delta repair kit for your faucet model, then insert each seal into the assembly. Insert the replacement ball from the repair kit, then cap it by putting the replacement rubber seal over the ball, followed by the plastic cam

Place the bonnet nut over the faucet valve, then tighten the nut with an adjustable wrench. Position the handle onto the end of the faucet, then insert a screw into the center of the handle, tighten it with a Phillips-head screwdriver and, finally, press the decorative plastic cap over the screw.

Turn on the valve that controls the main water supply by twisting the valve in a counterclockwise direction to complete the repair

Sounds like someone did not remove the plastic valve assembly before soldering the valve body to the copper piping.
That or the valve body needs cleaned out. It is common for debris to get knocked lose when doing installations on old plumbing.

Sounds like the delta people forgot to install the diverter piece inside of valve body,small white plastic piece screwed into valve. If you take out valve you should see it up inside body

Pull handle off with alan wrench there is a plastic gear underneath that stops handle before scalding ,you'll see-adjust gear so handle opens further that should do it

You should only have two lines, one HOT and ONE cold, if your already using a delta, then that means whatever is already WELDED to inside the unit is DELTA as well. JUST KEEP IN MIND that if you intend to use something other than DELTA parts, you will NEED TO do welding work!! Just changed mine out and ran into the same issue as you.

What do you need to know?

No you do not need to shut the water off to make temperature adjustments. I can give you step by step instructions on how to do this but I would recommend that you go to www.deltafaucet.com. It will help if you know the model no. They have better easier to follow directions then I could ever give you.Thank you.