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Shower mixer valve easy troubleshooting

Ellis Garner
5 years ago

I wanted to increase the temperature of my single handle mixer valve shower. I've taken off the handle and opened the valve as far as possible to increase the temperature to where I like. Now when I try and turn the shower off, the handle rotates past its previous off position and is still running when it meets the internal tab to stop over-rotation.


The shower used to run fine, but I think the cold problem started from over tightening the off. Any suggestions would be helpful. Current plan is to file off that internal tab and let the handle turn from off to as far as it needs to for higher temperatures.