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Come chat with us! My point was to get the thing down to brass and clean it as much as you can.

What am I basing Moen is shit on? Well, once upon a time, about 30 years ago they made good stuff and I was very satisfied. Then I built my current house and went all Moen. Then about 5 years after I built it I stated having to repair the fixtures.

I was baffled until I went to the plumbing store for the upteenth time and asked the guy, who I was getting to know pretty well by now, what was going on. He said 'Oh they became shit around the time they started advertising how good they are.'

So instead of repairing them, I replaced them as they failed. I was very lucky in that I had planned to go around a second time and redo the bathrooms with higher quality finishes so I threw out the Moen shower fixtures as I went.

Download Emu4ios Ios 9. Oddly enough, 10 years on, I've never had to repair a single fixture.

Are you on city water or well water and if you're on a well are you conditioning your water properly.try to give many more details if possible. And are you sure it's actually leaking? Sometimes I have customers that get befuddled because they're shower head is dripping. Remove showerhead from shower arm and see if your indeed getting drips. If not it's probably just a mineral deposit build up in the shower head itself City water supplied. Output about 60-70 psi. Water in our area is considered very hard.

We do have softener installed. House has 3 tubs all with Moen posi temp valves, however only the one leaking again is the one downstairs shower.

Upstairs valves, never a problem. The leak is pretty substantial. A few heavy drops per second.

Bucket is full within 24 hrs. I will remove assembly and check. Can cartridge be removed and reinstalled without being damaged? Thanks all for your time. Really appreciate it. [QUOTE='jmon'] Yes.

Try removing and reinstalling, inspect o-ring, as it may have been damaged or worked out of place. Re-read post 2 by Mike. IMO, If it still leaks; cartdrige may be defective as mentioned above, try another cartdrige.

It's very seldom that it's the valve housing unless you're using chisels and screwdrivers in there. No worries, Moen will send another one. Thanks a lot. Called Moen and new cartridge is on the way. Just hope that I can find the extraction tool I bought the last time I replaced it.

I'm very talented about losing the one tool I desperately need. Best way to find it?

Buy another one. The first one will magically show up out of nowhere. I have a garage full of duplicate tools. To cutout even a portion of the prefabricated shower wall, means replacing the entire shower. What a nightmare!! Or do it through the other side of the wall. There are retrofit kits designed to be done from the front with as little disruption as possible.

Not 'no disruption' as that's not possible. But whatever hole they do require is designed to be covered with an escutcheon that comes with the kit. Not as 'clean' a look as just a handle and small escutcheon, of course, but not a hideous hack either.

Yes, it's not trivial. But neither is putting up with a garbage piece of plumbing. How you fix it, or how long you tolerate a defective one, is entirely up to you.