Great video! One quick thing to add. I tried to do this same quick repair but realized the rubber gasket on mine was old and dry/cracked, ect. At home depot you can buy a whole replacement faucet for about $15, everything brand new and only took a couple minutes to install. Works perfect now.
Home Depot is a rip off for Diverters. I needed one for my tub it was a Danco brand 1/2 inch @ 18.99. I found an identical one by EZ FLO in Amazon for $8.99. The identical Danco brand was 13.84 in Amazon.
Who knew it was that easy! I couldnt get the faucet off so i just popped of the diverter and cleaned it that way! 100 percent better! Thanks for the informative video
I had a leak from the wall side when diverter was engaged (shower on). The issue I had was the O-ring came out and I was putting it in a wrong slot. Had to push it in to the correct one and it fixed my issue. This video gave me good clues. Thank you!
Thank you for your video, Regarding 2:23, a pair of narrow long nose pliers can spread and grab the prongs of the blue plastic diverter valve. The encrusted chalky whitish material are mineral deposits known as hard water scale which consists of calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate. Other than scraping it off, if limescale deposits are clogging the pores of a shower or faucet head, then scale can be dissolved by soaking it in an acidic solution such as vinegar or in CLR cleaning fluid.
Most of the time you don't need to remove the whole spout to fix it. You can sometimes just remove the plastic gate and rubber seal. Simply reach under the open end of the spout, open up the gate's two plastic side clips a little bit while also pulling up on the knob. Everything should come apart easily when you do this. Then clean the inner flat metal surface of the spout with a metal file (even a regular fingernail emery file will work too). To reinstall everything you do the reverse. If it's hard for you do see what you are doing, just lie down in the tub on your back with you head facing the spout. It takes less than 5 minutes to fix it, and you don't have to worry about not tightening/sealing up the main copper water supply pipe from leaking.
Yeah, but creeking your neck, forget that! Haha And if I lie down in the tub, good chance of me falling asleep, when my wife would turn the water on to wake me. :) Plus I soak the whole thing in vinegar water instead of filing.
@@only1joy Yes! I was able to use a mirror to do this without removing the spout. I filed away the mineral buildup, reassembled it and it worked. You may need to raise and lower the diverter a few times for it to re-seat and seal properly, then you are good to go!
Simple and effective. The art of fixing things seems to be going away as everyone wants to throw and replace mind set. Just imagine the land fills we have filled over the last decade with this mentality.
Thanks for mentioning this. So true. I can get almost physically ill just thinking of how much we mindlessly and nonchalantly toss into the garbage/landfills. It's revolting how some people have piles of 'garbage bags' in front of their homes on trash day, while others manage to produce just one small bag of garbage, per week.
my son just moved into his off campus college apartment and it was a sublease unseen before move in and his first shower was half faucet /half shower so it was annoying. its not an apartment complex known for great maintance and he told them but I have little faith they will get to it timely or at all. its a simiiar handle and faucet. thinking we can attempt ot fix this for him for cheap and not too much time. Would have like to see a before shower spray and after on this video.
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head. To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets (like the soft magnets that go on your fridge) and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed!
I have a Moen faucet diverter made of plastic. There is no way to get the lift gate out. Can't get the prongs spread apart enough and the knob doesn't unscrew; it is very tightly pressure mounted and you end up damaging the finish trying to pull it apart. So basically not made to be serviced. So I was able to find an older unit that had a knob that you could easily unscrew.
Sheesh I thought the leak after the fix was still a leak! Do we all just have the cheap standard spouts they sell at like Home Depot? The small leakage still bothers me...
Hey Thank you for this! Mine leaked like that too. I totally forgot that I could remove that head. Regarding the file, I have another thought on this, perhaps you may find helpful. I think that is brass, so any file marks can cause scratches that will make that plastic part not seal as well. Yes there will always be some water leakage. Like you said its pressure. Its a simple plug system that allows the pressure to find its way to the shower head. But if you have some time, soaking that whole head in a large bowl filled with 75% vinegar, 25% water, that can dissolve the buildup. Its not as fast as the file. But we always have vinegar around too. It takes an overnight soak. The same goes for the shower head itself, which gets that hard water build up. you jsut unscrew it from the pipe, or the hose set if its a hand held, soak it all in a bucket of vinegar water. Its everywhere, but vinegar is your friend and its cheap, and magic. Haha. So you can soak both overnight. you can even do that every 6 months or so since its so easy to do to keep it flowing nicely.
This tub is absolutely th-cam.com/users/postUgkxVoi3B4CB6Oygq1-vo4OTL1M_M5JkrXif . Great quality too. The perfect size for the space in our master bath!
my o ring and diverter looked good still. after cleaning the corrosion it doesn’t create a seal and just falls back down. i did this because it would leak a lot but now it doesn’t create a seal at all.
After removing the faucet and seeing the problem is the mineral deposits, I would have soaked the tip pf the faucet in CLR or vinegar. No need to disassemble anything else.
It should be told that some diverters are different. To be sure you're getting the proper one, take out your old one and match it with the new one. Some are square and some are oval shaped.
I have a similar issue but my diverter is in the wall where the knob to change from hot to cold is. The diverter won’t go in so the shower runs when the water is turned on. Any suggestions?
@@buddyboy4x44 I hired a plumber and he said it was installed wrong, the only way was to tear out the wall or cut through the spout , hack it off put on a new one, which he ended up doing. Thank you for your help though. Who knew it was jacked up.
@@-Diana469 Being a woman, I have learned to look up youtube videos so I can question the plumber or whoever. I had to tell two guys installing my HWH to make it level! It was visibly crooked!!!
@@pamm8608 I do the same thing. They had of faucet crooked and had to tell them over and over how to do stuff. I would be doing it myself, but I no longer crawl back there to do it now that I'm 70.
I have a aqua source faucet in my bathroom shower, I get hot water in the sink less than three feet away from it but I cannot get any hot water from the shower, can you tell me is there a filter in the hot water side handle
I have never seen a diverter leak. Well.. after being fixed. Every new diverter I have seen does not leak. I don’t know why people say it should leak.. if that was the case then new ones would leak… and they don’t…
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head. To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed!
What about the washers and other PC you placed on side of tub. Do they need to go back in? And do you turn water off at water tank or what do you need to do?
I haven’t seen anything!! All details are hidden you didn’t show how you uninstall and how you put it back even at the end you should wait until no more water but it does!!
@@lancer717 if you're doing any work on the cold/hot and it's like the one in this video, then yes definitely shut off main water line. If it's a moen or something that uses the plastic cartridges that you pull out and replace, you might need to replace them. Otherwise, the diverter in the wall there needs to be looked at.
@@pablop1111 hahaha 😂 , i asked my self the same thing tho .. and I just tried to get my spout off ,it’s threaded but it didn’t wanna budge.. I’m afraid I’m gonna break something in the wall .. I’m gonna figure it out tho
I have been trying for a few days to twist off the faucet with no luck, it does not move at all. No caulking holding it in place, no little screw underneath(totally smooth). I have soaked the faucet with CLR, then later with vinegar(bag held on with rubber bands), ran hot water for a while. Nothing has helped. I would love to fix this myself. Any ideas??
Four months later you’ve probably repaired this by now but I was gonna suggest just sliding a screwdriver or plier arm into the spout hole and twisting to the left if there is no screw to fasten the faucet shouldn’t damage pipe or old faucet
@SSD.Wasteland Thanks! Yes, it did get fixed (handyman to the rescue), but if I need to this again, I now have some other options so I can fix it on my own.
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head. To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed! Saved me the cost of buying a replacement at Walmart for $13.62 + tax.
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Great video! One quick thing to add. I tried to do this same quick repair but realized the rubber gasket on mine was old and dry/cracked, ect. At home depot you can buy a whole replacement faucet for about $15, everything brand new and only took a couple minutes to install. Works perfect now.
I may just do that I live in a condo. Been here for 6yrs. I broke it last night. I didn’t hold still for water pressure to come out.
Home Depot is a rip off for Diverters. I needed one for my tub it was a Danco brand 1/2 inch @ 18.99. I found an identical one by EZ FLO in Amazon for $8.99. The identical Danco brand was 13.84 in Amazon.
@@cookmaster3626 Right? Home Depot is the rookie lace, but handy in a pinch. Good poins here!
Who knew it was that easy! I couldnt get the faucet off so i just popped of the diverter and cleaned it that way! 100 percent better! Thanks for the informative video
I had a leak from the wall side when diverter was engaged (shower on). The issue I had was the O-ring came out and I was putting it in a wrong slot. Had to push it in to the correct one and it fixed my issue. This video gave me good clues. Thank you!
Thank you for your video, Regarding 2:23, a pair of narrow long nose pliers can spread and grab the prongs of the blue plastic diverter valve. The encrusted chalky whitish material are mineral deposits known as hard water scale which consists of calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, and calcium sulfate. Other than scraping it off, if limescale deposits are clogging the pores of a shower or faucet head, then scale can be dissolved by soaking it in an acidic solution such as vinegar or in CLR cleaning fluid.
I love you , you saved me from getting fired from my job
Just did this. Worked perfectly. Add on to this video for a plunger that’s stuck and run a grinder down the little hole.
Watching this didn't fix my issue but it definitely helped. Thank you. I still need to replace parts.
Thanks man just tried this and 15 mins later it works much better
Thank you so much! I was able to fix my own tub sprout because of your video! Bravo!
Finally my hot water will last long enough for a good shower. Thanks!
Thank you for this!!! I’ve been dreading tacking this job but now I don’t feel as overwhelmed knowing what I’m getting into and how to fix it. ❤️👏
Wd40 duck tape and a wrench. I real mans tool kit.
It took me longer to find a file in my tools than it did to actually fix it!
Most of the time you don't need to remove the whole spout to fix it. You can sometimes just remove the plastic gate and rubber seal. Simply reach under the open end of the spout, open up the gate's two plastic side clips a little bit while also pulling up on the knob. Everything should come apart easily when you do this. Then clean the inner flat metal surface of the spout with a metal file (even a regular fingernail emery file will work too). To reinstall everything you do the reverse. If it's hard for you do see what you are doing, just lie down in the tub on your back with you head facing the spout. It takes less than 5 minutes to fix it, and you don't have to worry about not tightening/sealing up the main copper water supply pipe from leaking.
Yup
Yeah, but creeking your neck, forget that! Haha And if I lie down in the tub, good chance of me falling asleep, when my wife would turn the water on to wake me. :)
Plus I soak the whole thing in vinegar water instead of filing.
or hold a mirror underneath? I used a mirror to examine the inside of the spout... haven't tried a repair yet.
N.B. But make sure you drain all the water out of the tub, first, before lying in it.
@@only1joy Yes! I was able to use a mirror to do this without removing the spout. I filed away the mineral buildup, reassembled it and it worked. You may need to raise and lower the diverter a few times for it to re-seat and seal properly, then you are good to go!
Once I get this fixed, my water bill will drop by 20%.
Nice video, thanks!
Thank you so much for this video this is the exact issue I’m having I’m going to use your method and see if it fixes the problem!!
Simple and effective. The art of fixing things seems to be going away as everyone wants to throw and replace mind set. Just imagine the land fills we have filled over the last decade with this mentality.
Thanks for mentioning this. So true. I can get almost physically ill just thinking of how much we mindlessly and nonchalantly toss into the garbage/landfills. It's revolting how some people have piles of 'garbage bags' in front of their homes on trash day, while others manage to produce just one small bag of garbage, per week.
This is true. Plus, mentality in landfills is non-biodegradable.
people gotta start making things the effective way too
very simple and great video ... thanks man.
my son just moved into his off campus college apartment and it was a sublease unseen before move in and his first shower was half faucet /half shower so it was annoying. its not an apartment complex known for great maintance and he told them but I have little faith they will get to it timely or at all. its a simiiar handle and faucet. thinking we can attempt ot fix this for him for cheap and not too much time. Would have like to see a before shower spray and after on this video.
Thanks a bunch I changed the cartridge and got all discouraged when it still leaked
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head.
To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets (like the soft magnets that go on your fridge) and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed!
This worked out just as quick as you said it would. Thanks for the video!
Mine is doing the same thing but WAY WORSE!
A big shout out to this dude in Colorado! I was just like #420 😂
Mike, thank you! This was the perfect fix!
Thanks! This was awesome! Very helpful and you explained it so well! Great Video👌🏽
Wow! Thanks I broke mine last night. Now I have to figure out if there ma a screw on the bottom and fix it or purchase a new one.
Helped immediately! Great video ! Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you from Washington State, you’re video extremely helpful , and strait forward. You Rock! 🤘🏻😁
I have a Moen faucet diverter made of plastic. There is no way to get the lift gate out. Can't get the prongs spread apart enough and the knob doesn't unscrew; it is very tightly pressure mounted and you end up damaging the finish trying to pull it apart. So basically not made to be serviced. So I was able to find an older unit that had a knob that you could easily unscrew.
Sheesh I thought the leak after the fix was still a leak! Do we all just have the cheap standard spouts they sell at like Home Depot? The small leakage still bothers me...
Use vinegar instead of file .It doesn't scratch
Thank you this was extremely helpful
Very helpful. Thanks 🙏
Hey Thank you for this!
Mine leaked like that too. I totally forgot that I could remove that head.
Regarding the file, I have another thought on this, perhaps you may find helpful. I think that is brass, so any file marks can cause scratches that will make that plastic part not seal as well. Yes there will always be some water leakage. Like you said its pressure. Its a simple plug system that allows the pressure to find its way to the shower head.
But if you have some time, soaking that whole head in a large bowl filled with 75% vinegar, 25% water, that can dissolve the buildup. Its not as fast as the file. But we always have vinegar around too. It takes an overnight soak.
The same goes for the shower head itself, which gets that hard water build up. you jsut unscrew it from the pipe, or the hose set if its a hand held, soak it all in a bucket of vinegar water. Its everywhere, but vinegar is your friend and its cheap, and magic. Haha. So you can soak both overnight. you can even do that every 6 months or so since its so easy to do to keep it flowing nicely.
This tub is absolutely th-cam.com/users/postUgkxVoi3B4CB6Oygq1-vo4OTL1M_M5JkrXif . Great quality too. The perfect size for the space in our master bath!
Useful for saving money! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
What would be the problem if when the tap is turned on the shower leaks?
You need to show full process
my o ring and diverter looked good still. after cleaning the corrosion it doesn’t create a seal and just falls back down. i did this because it would leak a lot but now it doesn’t create a seal at all.
How?
Can I take that piece off if I don't have the screw underneath ?
Please Let me know
Thanks for the Water Gate 411
After removing the faucet and seeing the problem is the mineral deposits, I would have soaked the tip pf the faucet in CLR or vinegar. No need to disassemble anything else.
Thank u dude. From Jersey. 🤘✌️🙏
It should be told that some diverters are different. To be sure you're getting the proper one, take out your old one and match it with the new one. Some are square and some are oval shaped.
Those slip on spouts are hell
I have a similar issue but my diverter is in the wall where the knob to change from hot to cold is. The diverter won’t go in so the shower runs when the water is turned on. Any suggestions?
i get no drips from my tap if I pull up the shower lever BEFORE turning on the water...
What do you do if there is no set screw but the faucet won't come off? Thanks for the video.
It likely screws off (counter clockwise). Grasp it with a thick damp towel for grip and twist.
@@buddyboy4x44 I hired a plumber and he said it was installed wrong, the only way was to tear out the wall or cut through the spout , hack it off put on a new one, which he ended up doing. Thank you for your help though. Who knew it was jacked up.
@@-Diana469 Being a woman, I have learned to look up youtube videos so I can question the plumber or whoever. I had to tell two guys installing my HWH to make it level! It was visibly crooked!!!
@@pamm8608 I do the same thing. They had of faucet crooked and had to tell them over and over how to do stuff. I would be doing it myself, but I no longer crawl back there to do it now that I'm 70.
Amazing video. Thank you!
Is it always the diverted that is causing the leak? Mine is dripping when the faucet is off?
Omg! Thank you!!! Saved me
Thank you so much
Thank you for your help. Much appreciated
My Allen screw is seized and won't turn, any ideas to get it off
Mine is the opposite it leaks when it’s down but when you pull it up for a shower the leaking stops.
Simple thanks.
if u want something done do it yourself!
Is there any way to block that water coming down completely?
Thanks fam
Did you have to turn off the water
Much appreciated. Thank you!
What size Allen wrench?
I have a aqua source faucet in my bathroom shower, I get hot water in the sink less than three feet away from it but I cannot get any hot water from the shower, can you tell me is there a filter in the hot water side handle
Thank You so much!!!!!
I need to do this on one of our showers. Is there a certain size/grit of file you need for this?
Good video. Thanks
I have never seen a diverter leak. Well.. after being fixed. Every new diverter I have seen does not leak. I don’t know why people say it should leak.. if that was the case then new ones would leak… and they don’t…
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head.
To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed!
Very good video. one question is caulking necessary behind the spout ?
It should be sealed on top and sides. Leave the bottom unsealed. In case any water gets in there it will have a way to drain out
@@majoneski Thank you
@@brandonconover5206 you're welcome. I'm glad I could help
What about the washers and other PC you placed on side of tub. Do they need to go back in? And do you turn water off at water tank or what do you need to do?
Yes, everything you took out needs to go back in. For this type of fix nothing is actually being replaced or swapped out!
Thanks!!!
I’m disappointed we don’t get to see this guy taking a bath.
Thank you.
might the leak be coming from the handle cartridge?
Yes. My cold water side had an issue with the gasket behind the handle
I cleaned everything new seal and stip dripping
Which way does the washer go?
My divider isn’t working 😢
Thank you my screw is missing I see
Man i filed mine and the gasket seemed fine and it still leak
What if it screws on?
I haven’t seen anything!!
All details are hidden you didn’t show how you uninstall and how you put it back even at the end you should wait until no more water but it does!!
Does the main water line need to be shut off?
No, no need to turn the main water line off. The water to the diverter is turned on and off via the handle.
@@beardedcamelnuts even if the problem is coming from the cold/hot knobs?
@@lancer717 if you're doing any work on the cold/hot and it's like the one in this video, then yes definitely shut off main water line. If it's a moen or something that uses the plastic cartridges that you pull out and replace, you might need to replace them. Otherwise, the diverter in the wall there needs to be looked at.
@@beardedcamelnuts I live in a mobil home, the water shut off is not behold the shiwer wall, can I just shut off the supply from the water heater?
And then when you show it off it leaks all night with the hot water
Why not soak it in some Lime Away?
CLR, but good video.
What does CLR mean?
@@Autumn_Forest_ calcium lime rust
@@carmenlamanna5391 Thanks!
@@Autumn_Forest_ No problem
It’s an old lime-descaler cleaning product
My spout doesn’t have prongs
Buy a new diverter. Th is one is on burrowed time and wasting water.
Do you need to turn the water off before taking the faucet off? Like the homes water not just in the shower.!
It’s The shower , the water only runs if you turn it on
@@ShotokunWulf thank you. I am not what you would call a smart man. 🤦🏾♂️
@@pablop1111 hahaha 😂 , i asked my self the same thing tho .. and I just tried to get my spout off ,it’s threaded but it didn’t wanna budge.. I’m afraid I’m gonna break something in the wall .. I’m gonna figure it out tho
I have been trying for a few days to twist off the faucet with no luck, it does not move at all. No caulking holding it in place, no little screw underneath(totally smooth). I have soaked the faucet with CLR, then later with vinegar(bag held on with rubber bands), ran hot water for a while. Nothing has helped. I would love to fix this myself. Any ideas??
Four months later you’ve probably repaired this by now but I was gonna suggest just sliding a screwdriver or plier arm into the spout hole and twisting to the left if there is no screw to fasten the faucet shouldn’t damage pipe or old faucet
@SSD.Wasteland Thanks! Yes, it did get fixed (handyman to the rescue), but if I need to this again, I now have some other options so I can fix it on my own.
👍👍👍👍
Just replace it
My faucet head has a diverter with gasket heads on BOTH the front and backside of the water hole at the end of the pin. The thin plastic bracing wall that presses up against the front side of the hole cracked up the middle, was bent ever so slightly, and was angled away from the gasket head, thus breaking the seal when the pin was pulled up to divert water to the shower head.
To straighten out the plastic wall so that the gasket heads sit more tightly up again against the plastic brace/wall, I cut and stacked four pieces of soft cuttable magnets and wedged them tightly between the plastic brace-wall and the front surface of the faucet head. Leaky faucet/diverter fixed!
Saved me the cost of buying a replacement at Walmart for $13.62 + tax.
Unacceptable
Several segments of the video you told us what to do vs. show us what to do re: removing and reinstalling parts. Not helpful.
U know u can twist the mob off n it slides out
For gods sake this whole thing costs about 6-7$ , just replace the whole thing , who has time to waste on fixing such thing
I have the opposite problem and water comes out of the shower head when running the tub
Thank you so much !!