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Shower Repair in Metro Vancouver

Temperature that swings when someone runs a tap, pressure that has faded, or a head that drips long after you shut it off. Most of it comes back to one part behind the wall.

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Shower Repair

It Is Almost Always the Mixing Valve

The pressure-balancing or thermostatic cartridge inside your shower valve does the work of keeping the temperature steady and shutting the flow off completely. It is also the part that wears. When it goes, you get temperature swings, a persistent drip, or a handle that turns without much effect.

Replacing a cartridge is a modest job done from the front of the wall. The trick is identifying the right one — valve bodies vary a lot between manufacturers and eras, and fitting a near-enough cartridge causes exactly the symptoms you were trying to cure.

  • ✓Cartridges for the major valve brands — identified properly, not approximated.
  • ✓Tile left alone wherever possible — we look for rear access before suggesting cutting.
  • ✓Pressure diagnosed, not guessed — head, cartridge, isolation valve, or the supply pipe.
  • ✓Leaks behind the wall traced — before they become a ceiling repair downstairs.
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Shower Problems We Fix

  • Temperature swings when other taps run
  • Shower head dripping long after shut-off
  • Weak or falling water pressure
  • Handles that spin or feel loose
  • Failed diverters between head and spout
  • Leaks showing on the ceiling below
  • Cracked or corroded trim and escutcheons
  • Blocked or scaled shower heads
  • Thermostatic valve replacement
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While We Are There

Most calls turn up something else worth looking at. Here is what else we handle.

FAQs

Shower Repair Questions

That is a pressure-balancing problem in the mixing valve. A working balanced valve compensates when cold demand elsewhere drops the pressure on one side. When the internal cartridge wears, it stops compensating and you feel every flush. Replacing the cartridge normally fixes it without opening the wall.
A short drain-down is normal — water sitting in the riser has to go somewhere. A drip that continues for hours is a failing valve cartridge that is no longer sealing, and it is worth fixing: that water is going down the drain, and on a mixed valve it is often heated water.
Usually not. Most cartridge and trim work is done entirely from the front through the valve opening. Full valve body replacement sometimes needs access, but there is often a route from behind — a closet or an adjacent room — that leaves your tile untouched. We look for that before we ever suggest cutting tile.
Start simple: a clogged shower head is the most common and the easiest to rule out. After that, a failing cartridge or a partially closed isolation valve. If the pressure has dropped everywhere in the house rather than just the shower, that points at the supply piping — and in homes of a certain age that often means Poly B.
Get it looked at quickly. It could be the valve, the drain connection, or failed waterproofing behind the tile — and those are very different repairs. Water tracking into a ceiling cavity causes rot and mould well before the stain looks dramatic.

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Valve cartridges, pressure problems and hidden leaks. Priced before we start.

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