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This has me stumped! Our house is 5 years old. The plumbing is PEX with manifolds. My wife started complaining that her shower seemed to be slowing down - not just the hot or the cold, but both. I checked the shower head itself and the nozzles are clear.
I called Moen and they said the balancing valve inside the 1222B cartridge is stuck, and they sent me out a new one. I followed the instructions to the letter and it was worse than the original!
So, back to Moen. This time they tell me, "Oh! You have to clean whatever debris is in the valve body out" - and sent me procedures to do that along with a new 1222B.
I did all they said to do, flushing the valve body so much, I had water coming down thru to the basement from the holes in the flooring where the PEX comes thru.
The new cartridge is just as bad as the others.
Now that I am thinking about it, if it is the balancing valve, I should be getting better flow from either the hot or the cold, not low flow from both. The flow is so low, all of the shower head nozzles are not spraying water.
I am at a loss. Where do I go from here?
This has me stumped! Our house is 5 years old. The plumbing is PEX with manifolds. My wife started complaining that her shower seemed to be slowing down - not just the hot or the cold, but both. I checked the shower head itself and the nozzles are clear.
I called Moen and they said the balancing valve inside the 1222B cartridge is stuck, and they sent me out a new one. I followed the instructions to the letter and it was worse than the original!
So, back to Moen. This time they tell me, "Oh! You have to clean whatever debris is in the valve body out" - and sent me procedures to do that along with a new 1222B.
I did all they said to do, flushing the valve body so much, I had water coming down thru to the basement from the holes in the flooring where the PEX comes thru.
The new cartridge is just as bad as the others.
Now that I am thinking about it, if it is the balancing valve, I should be getting better flow from either the hot or the cold, not low flow from both. The flow is so low, all of the shower head nozzles are not spraying water.
I am at a loss. Where do I go from here?