Jeff Wisnia wrote:
Joseph Meehan wrote:
Joseph Meehan wrote:

Chris Wacalwik wrote:

I would guess you have very good water pressure. The diverter
does not shut off the shower, that is always on, but it opens the
tub outlet. Normally the difference in height keeps water from
coming out the shower. With enough water pressure, or restricted
flow to the tub, water will come out the shower.

Try using your hand to block the flow into the tub to see what I
mean.


After returning from a bike ride, and took a shower, I checked
that out. Well things change in 40 years. The diverter on my
current shower does seem to block off the shower when the tub is
selected. Sorry for the bad advice.


Sounds like your diverter is on the wall, and not on the spout.

No, on the spout.


The OP's description of "pushing down" on the valve made it sound to
me like it's one of the "in the spout" ones, and I haven't yet heard
of a spout with a valve which will block off the feed to the shower
head. Anything's possible I suppose, though why would any
manufacturer bother
to make ones like that?

Don't know. It surprised me.


Since the OP didn't say, "This just started happening", chances are
his water pressure increased since the original installation, or it's
been
that way ever since it was built because the installer saw it and just
said, "WTF".

One "fix" for his situation is to run the shower feed piping in an
inverted "U" up past the shower head and then back down to it,
assuming space exists overhead to do that. But that's likely to be a
Gawd awfull expensive proposition in an existing situation, unless
the other side of the wall behind the shower and the space overhead
aren't finished. Even then it's a fair bit of work.

I'd suggest, in the following order:

1. Learn to love it the way it is....It's not bothering anything but
his sense of perfection.

2. Try a new spout. Preferably a different make. It might just do the
trick.

3. Put a throttling plug valve just behind the shower head and suffer
with opening and closing it when needed. They make 'em with a chrome
finish.

3. Measure the water pressure and if it's well above what he needs,
install a pressure reducing valve after the water meter, and crank the
pressure down 'till the dribble stops.

Comments?

Jeff

I think you have made some good suggestions

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Joseph E. Meehan

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