Swope1221
New Member
Hi everyone. I am posting here because I have been having ongoing issues with my shower and Moen 1222 cartridges. I'll try to keep it brief, we remodeled our bathroom about 16 years ago and installed a Moen Adler shower valve. The shower worked fine till about 3 years ago when my son and friend were messing around, and literally the stem broke off the cartridge. I got the cartridge out and replaced it and everything worked fine, for about a year.
After a year I was getting either all hot, or cold, I don't remember which, so I replaced the cartridge again. Fast forward 1 year later, same problem, replaced again, this time I bought the 1222 hd, the all brass version. And here we are now today, same problem.
Is there something I am doing wrong when installing these cartridges that is causing them to fail so prematurely? When I replaced the previous one, I looked at the old cartridge and I could see inner stem was blocking one of the holes for the water to enter the cartridge, and no matter how I tried to rotate the stem to simulate turning on the shower and adjusting the temp, the hole never became unblocked.
It is a shower/bath combo with the diverter on the tub spout.
If there is any other information that might help let me know. It seems at this point I am going to have to replace the cartridge again, but I am hoping I can do it and it lasts longer than a year.
Thanks in advance.
Eric
After a year I was getting either all hot, or cold, I don't remember which, so I replaced the cartridge again. Fast forward 1 year later, same problem, replaced again, this time I bought the 1222 hd, the all brass version. And here we are now today, same problem.
Is there something I am doing wrong when installing these cartridges that is causing them to fail so prematurely? When I replaced the previous one, I looked at the old cartridge and I could see inner stem was blocking one of the holes for the water to enter the cartridge, and no matter how I tried to rotate the stem to simulate turning on the shower and adjusting the temp, the hole never became unblocked.
It is a shower/bath combo with the diverter on the tub spout.
If there is any other information that might help let me know. It seems at this point I am going to have to replace the cartridge again, but I am hoping I can do it and it lasts longer than a year.
Thanks in advance.
Eric