queenofthetile
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I had a new shower valve installed when we were re-tiling our bathroom shower, and we had the spout capped until last night, when we were running the leak test on the new shower pan. It seemed to be working fine (other than not much pressure coming out of the pipe, but that could be because we didn't have a shower head on there), and it turned off fine with no drips. But at about 6AM this morning, when someone got up and took a shower in the other bathroom, and started running water in the kitchen (changing water pressure in the house?) it started to drip water like crazy! I only heard it because of the water test had the pan filled with the water, and it made lound splashing noises. It wasn't a little drip either, it was quite a bit of water splashing out of it.
Could the plumber have heated the valve too much when he was soldering the pipes around it and melted something in there? It seems wierd that it wouldn't leak all night, but only start leaking that morning all of a sudden. I couldn't turn it off either. I just had to put the cap back on the pipe.
Any ideas? Is there something I can do to fix this, or should I have that one cut out and another one put in? We haven't tiled the walls yet, so it is still exposed (thank goodness) if we need to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Could the plumber have heated the valve too much when he was soldering the pipes around it and melted something in there? It seems wierd that it wouldn't leak all night, but only start leaking that morning all of a sudden. I couldn't turn it off either. I just had to put the cap back on the pipe.
Any ideas? Is there something I can do to fix this, or should I have that one cut out and another one put in? We haven't tiled the walls yet, so it is still exposed (thank goodness) if we need to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.