Delta 1400 Series Shower Pressure Balanced Valve
 

I have been in my new home 6 years. I have had to replace the RP10904
Cartridge assembly in the valve 5 times. It is in the master bath. It
will last about 6-8 months and then start making a knocking noise when
ever the water is turned off anywhere else in the house. It will
continue to get worse and is very annoying. It is trash getting in the
lower assembly in the spool piece that controls the pressure balance
per Delta. I have disassembled a couple used ones and could find
nothing. Delta will not say if it is ok to remove the spool but they
recommend not to. I keep the water temp at 105 deg so scalding is not
an issue. Anyone ever remove the spool piece to correct this problem?
If so could you tell any difference in the valve operation? Thanks

Delta 1400 Series Shower Pressure Balanced Valve
 

Correction - Replaced PR19804 Cartridge

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:21:49 -0500, Loboy48
wrote:

I have been in my new home 6 years. I have had to replace the RP10904
Cartridge assembly in the valve 5 times. It is in the master bath. It
will last about 6-8 months and then start making a knocking noise when
ever the water is turned off anywhere else in the house. It will
continue to get worse and is very annoying. It is trash getting in the
lower assembly in the spool piece that controls the pressure balance
per Delta. I have disassembled a couple used ones and could find
nothing. Delta will not say if it is ok to remove the spool but they
recommend not to. I keep the water temp at 105 deg so scalding is not
an issue. Anyone ever remove the spool piece to correct this problem?
If so could you tell any difference in the valve operation? Thanks

Delta 1400 Series Shower Pressure Balanced Valve
 

"Loboy48" wrote in message
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I have been in my new home 6 years. I have had to replace the RP10904
Cartridge assembly in the valve 5 times. It is in the master bath. It
will last about 6-8 months and then start making a knocking noise when
ever the water is turned off anywhere else in the house. It will
continue to get worse and is very annoying. It is trash getting in the
lower assembly in the spool piece that controls the pressure balance
per Delta. I have disassembled a couple used ones and could find
nothing. Delta will not say if it is ok to remove the spool but they
recommend not to. I keep the water temp at 105 deg so scalding is not
an issue. Anyone ever remove the spool piece to correct this problem?
If so could you tell any difference in the valve operation? Thanks


You said there's trash getting in the lower assembly, but you could find
nothing.


If you found nothing, how do you know there's trash? Who said there was
trash?

Delta 1400 Series Shower Pressure Balanced Valve
 

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:09:24 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

It is trash getting in the lower assembly

Fix that first!!

Oren
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