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O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 10:55 AM

My mothers house doent have very good water pressure, but its even worse in the shower, also the showers never go hotter then luke warm and I know at my old apt. I could get the water scadling if I wanted. So with out paying a plumber, is there anything I could try doing to get my water pressure and water temp up?

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 11:16 AM

Hey are these shower valves single handle.. Do you know the name brand and approximately how old they are..

Get back to me

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 11:17 AM

Explain what a shower valve is first lol

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 11:21 AM

I looked at the shower head? Is a teledyne water pik and the handle to turn the water on is gerber is that it?

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 11:23 AM

Here is a picture of a single handle shower valve. There are also valves with 2 or 3 handles...

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 11:23 AM

How many handles..

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 11:52 AM

One

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 11:55 AM

http://gerberonline.com/fileLib/C0-44-720.jpg its very much like that but with a custom shower head

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 11:58 AM

OK... does not really sound like this is something you can do... but if you dare to try...

Some single handle shower valves have temperature limiting screws or adjustments under the cover plate. You could remove the cover plate and see if one type or another is present and see if can adjust to hotter temperature.

Also, most shower heads today have flow reducing washers installed inside the shower head where it connects onto the shower arm.. could maybe go in and remove this washer. Should increase volume of water to shower.

This is a bit involved... maybe you and Mom can try this together... let us know what you decide... good luck... Mark

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 12:01 PM

Haha my mother can't change a light bulb OK I'll go try it and if it doesn't work I'll come back .

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 12:02 PM

OK.. there is a temperature limit screw under the cover of that valve... if you unscrew this screw 180-360 degrees... may just increase temp. for you.

http://gerberonline.com/fileLib/G9-120-SS.pdf

This pdf came from the site you posted... has some info. For you.

O_Troubles · Apr 16, 2008, 12:12 PM

The handle woudnt come off only the mounted back plate

massplumber2008 · Apr 16, 2008, 07:14 PM

Hey hey!

Did you remove a screw or an allen screw from the handle before attampting to remove the handle..

Look at underside of handle... should be a hole... should be an allen screw(see pic.) in there that can be removed using an allen wrench (see pic.) of correct size.

If you did remove screw of any kind and handle not coming off then you would need to purchase a handle puller tool (see pic.) and set the tool and PULL the handle off.

Let me know what you think.