TripleMindedGee5150
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Lol payments in beer or bud .The smitty plate is just to cover up the hole you would chop into the wall to get access to the piping.
Did anyone do ANY other plumbing work before you had this problem within the last couple of months?
Well, we're reaching the end of my plumbing expertise. ASSuming all the other faucets in the house work OK? The bath has separate hot and cold handles coming out of the wall and a lever that switches from tub spout to shower, right? The fact that the problem is going back and forth between hot and cold faucets makes me think it's something in your installation that's not right. Are you absolutely sure you got the right kind and size of rubber washers? There are different types
If you shut of the main supply valve where it comes in off the street and you still have water pressure (did you check all other faucets in the house both hot and cold?), then that valve is probably bad as Blue Wizard said. When you say water leaking out the tub spout is it a steady stream or x number of drips per minute? Did the 8 minute shower thing just start recently, too?
You know there's going to be a bill for this don't you?
But no work has been done by or any one since I've owned. Owned about 6-7 yrs. Check all my reports and nothing mentioned. But who knows?
Yes three handles hot , diverter, cold.
I may have used to small of a washer. It didn't fit the end of the stem completely in circumference. I'm going to open it up again later.