Recent content by kriebz

Moen says they don't make them any more, and since I'm not the original home owner, I can pound sand. Buy it for life my sweaty plumber crack. OK, my work-around for a few weeks was to remove the handle and gently tap the tip of the valve stem extension with a rod and small (tiny. love taps.)...

It looks just like a Moentrol Legend, with a metal lever handle. Pulls on, pushes off, turns for temp. Works just as Moen's site describes a Moentrol, except it was no longer shutting off all the way. Under the handle is a cast metal piece that has a soft plastic part in the middle, which...

The valve with the extension removed. The solid metal two-piece telescoping extension cover that retains the escutcheon and the escutcheon itself, right side up, with the protrusion at top dead center, and no screw holes.

Excellent. Yes, it's a cheap off-brand trim, I was hoping it had the part I needed, but it doesn't. I don't need to replace the trim at all. So the valve / fixture looks like a LEGEND® MOENTROL®, but the current manuals for these show the bent sheet metal stop tube with a protruding lateral...

I just bought a house built in 1995. All of the showers use Moen posi-temp valve bodies and metal singe-handle controls. They look like a medium-high end trim, and use an escutcheon with a protruding tab retained by a metal two-part cover over the extension, not the sheet-metal tube I see in...