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    Jan 7, 2006, 03:42 PM
    Shower diverter not working
    Water comes from both the shower head and the faucet. I thought that it was just a problem with the diverter on the faucet, so I bought a new one and installed it today (Danco adjustable tub spout with diverter 88434). No luck! It still comes from both the shower head and faucet. If I pull up on the diverter, then it just comes from the shower. I cannot seem to get the water to just some from the faucet.

    I took off the faucet and the shower head and the water comes mostly out of the pipe for the shower.

    Is this a more serious problem that will involve me breaking through the wall to repair something?

    The shower was this way when we bought the house and I tought that it was an easy fix.

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    Jan 7, 2006, 04:51 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by sonnycov
    Water comes from both the shower head and the faucet. I thought that it was just a problem with the diverter on the faucet, so I bought a new one and installed it today (Danco adjustable tub spout with diverter 88434). No luck! It still comes from both the shower head and faucet. If I pull up on the diverter, then it just comes from the shower. I cannot seem to get the water to just some from the faucet.

    I took off the faucet and the shower head and the water comes mostly out of the pipe for the shower.

    Is this a more serious problem that will involve me breaking through the wall to repair something??

    The shower was this way when we bought the house and I tought that it was an easy fix.

    :confused:
    You have to realize how it works. All the diverter does when you pull up is to block the flow to the spout. The water, having no other to go then climbs up the shower raiser and out the shower head. Now you want to fill the tub and you push the diverter rod down. This opens up the path to the spout and the shower raiser being much higher then the spout presents a resistance. Water will seek its own level so it all comes out the spout.
    That's the way it should work. Let's explore what makes yours different.
    Well, it's not the diverter spout. You've proved that. That leaves only one more thing. Back pressure. If the inlet to the spout were choked down by mineral build up or any other trash that may have got in the valve body the trash would act as a partial diverter and part would go up to the shower and part would go down to the spout. Only if you had a extremely short shower raiser and a shower head chest high could this happen any other way.
    I can offer three options to get out from under this problem.
    (1) You can open up the tub/shower valve and open up the tub spout inlet--or
    (2) You could figure out a way to close off the spout and complete the job the spouts diverter begun
    (3) You can change out the tub/shower valve

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