how to replace a moen shower cartridge instructions

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how to replace a moen shower cartridge instructions

The Fundamentals

Moen has a straightforward cartridge framework utilized for a wide assortment of single-handle valve bodies. Kitchen sinks, washroom sinks, tubs and showers. The lineup is decent on the grounds that a wide assortment of items use around 3 cartridges - 1200, 1222, 1225 that all have a comparative frame consider.

This framework is entirely decent. The valves are anything but difficult to move against weight, and keep up their position effortlessly. You can even abandon them set to a similar temperature setting and control the volume from off to full on.

The framework has costly cartridges, they cost about $30 (2014) to supplant, yet they keep going quite a while - 20 to 30 years. It's not an awful arrangement, and not at all like current fired spigots, Moen still makes a similar part to put into valve bodies made 40 years back!

It's Anything but difficult to Supplant!

To supplant a cartridge, it's straight-forward and straightforward, taking all of around 15 minutes.

In the event that you need to get the Moen Extractor Apparatus, it is somewhat expensive at $30, yet it makes even a typical substitution a breeze!

On the off chance that you stall out at step #7 or #8 - don't stress. Checkout the areas on the Moen Extractor Apparatus and Evacuating a stuck Cartridge for help with that.

Kill the water.

Expel the spigot handle cover. A thin pry bar or level bladed screw driver functions admirably.

Unscrew he spigot handle screw - normally level cutting edge.

Expel the spigot handle.

You may need to slide out a spacer sleeve (typically in shower/tube valves) which conceals the... (ps, clean the old caulk from the sleeve)

Haul out and spare the holding cut. YOU Should DO THIS, in the event that you don't you may obliterate your valve coincidentally.

Utilize a Moen extractor device, or the white instrument that accompanies the new cartridge to bend the cartridge departed/right free. The "ears" on the apparatus sit between the "ears" of the cartridge inside the valve body to give you a chance to turn it.

Utilize the extractor instrument or a couple of pincers on the stem to haul out the valve cartridge.

Look at the valve body and utilize vinegar (and a toothbrush) to get out any lime and mineral stores. It works pleasantly.

Wet the substitution valve body, however don't wash the grease from it.

Slide the cartridge into the valve body until it clears the holding cut opening. The ears on the cartridge ought to be adjusted to the openings, not inverse to them.

Slide the holding cut in. Situate it so it is flush with the external valve body, with simply the tab uncovered. You can utilize the extractor apparatus or the white instrument to pivot the embed to adjust the two. YOU Should Introduce THE Clasp, generally the compel of water will push the cartridge out of the valve and water will fly all over the place!

In the event that there was a spacer sleeve, re-introduce it by sliding it once again into the right spot.

Slide the spigot handle back on.

Turn on the water

ensure hot/chilly are in the right bearings. If not utilize the fixture handle to turn the valve stem 180 degrees to make hot/cool appropriately situated.

Fasten the spigot screw back.

Press the handle cover back in.

In the event that you needed to pull the spacer sleeve, you'll have to tidy up the old caulk re-caulk it the shield.

What Moen Says

You can read about the typical bearings on Moen's site:

Moen Bolster FAQs

Introducing the Moen 1225/1200 Cartridge

Notes

While Moen makes a decent showing with regards to of instructing you, their symbol just portrayal forgets a couple of critical points of interest...

Most shower spigots have a removable spacer sleeve. This is to make supplanting the valve cartridge a considerable measure less demanding. You slide the sleeve out to access the clasp, supplant the cartridge. At that point, cleanup all the old caulk and slide the sleeve back on until it seats home, Re-caulk the sleeve it when everything is finished. The Moen guidelines say to remove the shield (the plate that mounts the valve to the shower divider. Try not to do anything with that crest until you realize that sleeve is settled. It is a torment to need to re-seat and re-caulk the whole crest.

There are spaces in the cartridge body that the legs of the holding cut side through - search for them so you an adjust everything legitimately.

Moen moved to a more current handle style that fits more firmly than their more seasoned ones (the old ones have a plastic handle with a metal embed). While the old ones still work, the new ones feel truly strong and don't have any slop in them. You might need to move up to the fresher handle for $10-$12 while you are doing the greater part of this.

What's The Issue?

On the off chance that this cartridge wasn't such an awesome outline, there would not be an issue. You'd need to burn through $30 on every fixture each couple of years to supplant the cartridge as depicted previously. Individuals would bitch and groan about the cost, or move to an alternate brand that had less expensive cartridges.

The issue is that this framework is composed truly well, and the cartridges can last 30-40 years before something turns out badly with them. Awesome! you say - what a unimaginably shoddy framework.

The issue isn't the framework, its in the absence of upkeep that occurs with a cartridge sitting in a valve body for a long time. What is there to keep up?

O Rings

The cartridge has O rings which seal it and its ports to the valve body.

The stem inside the cartridge has O rings to seal water sections and to make the weight adjusted valve outline.

What ought to happen is that each couple of years you pull the valve cartridge, re-lube the O rings with the extraordinary oil to make everything slide well.

Hard water and Stores

Garbage in the water and scale and so forth can develop in the valve body and the cartridge. In the event that you pull the cartridge each couple of years to re-lube it, you'll likewise utilize some vinegar and toothbrush to tidy up the scale and it will look a decent as new.

It will likewise make it simple to do upkeep; you are evacuating garbage which will shield the valve cartridge from being expelled.

Why Look after It?

On the off chance that all that is done consistently, at whatever point the cartridge comes up short it will be a reading material substitution technique; done in 15 minutes.

In the event that you don't, every one of the stores and scale and time will develop between the cartridge and the valve body. It will basically grab the two together, making it darn close difficult to supplant the embed.

As it were the cartridge is stuck in the valve body, and it is difficult to expel. That is the reason you have to peruse the accompanying area!

Expelling Stuck Moen Cartridges

In the event that your Moen cartridge is stuck on the grounds that it hasn't been supplanted in a drawn-out period of time, you should utilize some compel to expel it. It merits doing it right since you won't harm anything and you won't have to introduce another valve ... which costs a great deal of $$.

Stuck Holding Cut

Utilizing the Moen Extractor Instrument

Removing a Stuck Barrel

Stuck Holding Cut

Stores may make it hard to haul out the holding cut. Assuming this is the case, utilize vinegar and brush to break up the stores. Make a point to get vinegar onto the clasp side, the inverse side, and within where the clasp rests to dispose of the considerable number of stores that make it hard to evacuate.

The clasp has a gap in it that you can utilize a side of a level edge screw driver or a sharp punch or drill to give you a chance to pry the clasp free marginally.

In the event that there isn't sufficient room, the clasp openings stretch out through the valve body; a little level cutting edge screw driver can be put beyond all detectable inhibitions end of the clasp tracks to permit you to push the clasp up from the base.

On the off chance that the clasp moves a little and after that stops, utilize some more vinegar to tidy up more stores.

Try not to utilize a bad habit grasps to attempt and haul this thing out. You simply need to dispose of the stores, unseat it, and it will slide out pleasantly. On the off chance that you sever the little tab on the clasp you may think that its difficult to expel later on, or you may break the clasp and abandon it stuck in the valve body.

Utilize the Moen Extractor Device

Moen offers an extractor device that is utilized to relax the cartridge and take a few to get back some composure on it to haul it out. It is metal, not at all like the white instrument which accompanies each substitution cartridge.

The headings for utilizing it are incorporated on the bundling. It costs about $30 ... what's more, will keep going for a lifetime of settling you and your companion's Moen fixtures. On the off chance that you have a pack, this is the instrument to get notwithstanding for ordinary substitutions. It practically makes the ordinary substitution simple and easy.

Back off the inward hex dash until it is free.

Back off the external hex nut until it's the distance back.

Embed the device inside the valve body, with the ears of the instrument between the ears of the cartridge.

Freely fix the internal hex rush into the cartridge stem until it stops.

Freely fix the external hex nut until it contacts the valve body. Try not to disregard this progression - This nut balances out the apparatus so you don't break parts of the instrument or the spigot coincidentally!

Bend the cartridge departed and ideal with the T-Handle.

Haul out the cartridge with the T-Handle with simple compel.

On the off chance that the cartridge is stiff-necked and wouldn't like to haul out, the apparatus still does it for you; The external hex nut on the instrument is truly a cartridge puller:

Cozy the external hex nut down until it contacts the body of the valve (you ought to have done this above).

Fix the external hex nut 2-1/2 swings to remove the cartridge from the valve body. In the event that you can't turn it out by hand, an A 12" movable torque is sufficiently expansive to fit this nut.

Once the cartridge is out, relax up the external hex nut, and afterward unscrew the inward hex fastener, and voila your cartridge is evacuated. Once out, unquestionably watch that the valve body is clear of stores (clean with vinegar) and after that backpedal to the Simple Substitution methodology.

In the event that the cartridge you haul out is somewhat more slender than you suspected it ought to be - something about the width of your pinky, rather something about the width of your thumb ... That implies that the stem hauled out of whatever is left of the cartridge. Try not to Frenzy! In the event that it was stuck that terrible, you have to haul the stem out at any rate to get whatever is left of the cartridge out!

Removing the Cartridge Barrel

Alright, the cartridge was stuck so terrible that the stem hauled out of the cartridge when you attempted to pull the cartridge from the valve body. This leaves the external barrel of the cartridge still in the valve body. You have to haul it out.

Try not to Attempt to haul the stuck barrel out by it's ears - you may require those parts later!

Moen even planned their framework to work if this happened. (Then again, they pondered how to settle it when it began incident) It's sufficiently uncommon, however, that you'll have to make An instrument to take every necessary step.

You'll require

1-1/2" length of 3/8" hardwood dowel.

Tapping or Threading Oil

1/2" or 5/8" Tap

Tap Handle (or a 12" flexible torque)

Vast bad habit grasps or pincers.

Little needle-nose bad habit holds.

What you will do is to make an extractor to pull the barrel from the valve body. The mystery here is that the barrel is open-finished; the most distant end of the barrel isn't shut - that is the valve body you see at the far end on the off chance that you sparkle a light down the gap.

Put the length of dowel into the opening. This is essential - it shields the valve body from metal-on-metal contact which would demolish it.

Lube the tap gently on the "strings' with the oil.

Screw the take advantage of the barrel, making strings, and moving the tap further into the barrel.

Once the tap contacts the dowel, extra turns of the tap will begin pushing the barrel out of the valve. Sweet!

When it is pushed sufficiently out, you can utilize a vast bad habit grasps or pincers to haul it out the rest of. On the off chance that it is still stuck hard .. simply hand the tap over additional; it is ease back yet simple to do.

In the event that the barrel turns so you can't string it ... it's a simple settle. Utilize the needle-nose bad habit grasps on the valve body to make a stop that the ears of the barrel will lean against, keeping it from turning. You should reset the bad habit grasps as the barrel begins removing, else they will be ground along the valve body by the compel of the extractor.

On the off chance that the barrel is outside the valve body despite everything it won't haul out effectively ... you can no longer piece the ears from turning. For this situation, utilize the extensive bad habit grasps to keep the barrel frame turning so you can push it out additional with the tap until it is free.

Cleanup

Alright, you simply utilized a threading instrument that makes metal shavings in your fixture. Those shavings aren't useful for your composition, your shower-head's splash spouts or customizable instruments. Most vital those metal shavings will decimate the O-Rings on your substitution cartridge.

Utilize a cloth and the toothbrush to evacuate the enormous pieces of stuff that are anything but difficult to see and dispose of.

Deliberately turn on the water on a low stream to flush staying metal shavings from the valve body. Be cautious - there is no valve and the water will fly appropriate out the valve stem straight into the air. Have something to redirect or get it so it doesn't make a wreck - you don't have metal shavings everywhere!

Some water will likewise flush the spigot spout - if there is an aerator screen on it, you need to evacuate it so shavings aren't caught there.

For a tub with shower - Ensure the shower diverter valve is to "TUB", so shavings won't be stuck in the shower spout.

In the event that you have just a shower (or just a hand-spout) ... unscrew the shower head or spout hose from the divider fitting before doing this. You truly would prefer not to get those shavings into a costly shower spout - or to have a shower of metal shavings turning out into your hair, face or eyes! Ouch.

Subsequent to flushing out the metal shavings, take the vinegar and the toothbrush and set aside the opportunity to disintegrate any stores from the valve body.

From that point forward, it's smooth cruising, backpedal to the Simple Substitution method.

Devices You May Require

In surmised request of utilization. I'm simply posting every one of the devices - you will just need them all on the off chance that it turns out badly!

Conventional Substitution

Little level bladed screwdriver or pry bar (screw cover)

Level bladed screwdriver (handle screw)

Plastic scrubber (expel putty from the sleeve)

Vinegar and old Tooth Brush (if parts have water stores on them)

An Old Towel that is still soft (so parts aren't lost and apparatuses don't hurt the clay installation).

Drill or level bladed screwdriver (expel holding cut)

Needle-nose forceps (to help with holding cut)

Either

6-8" Customizable Torque (to release cartridge with white apparatus)

Forceps (to haul out valve body by stem

On the other hand

Moen Extractor Apparatus

12" Customizable Torque

Caulk fitting to your apparatuses (to re-caulk spacer sleeve).

Additional Normal Substitution

On the off chance that the stem is hauled out of the cartridge, you'll require this stuff to separate the rest of the cartridge. Yes, the vinegar is recorded once more, since you will need to get out stores!

1-1/2" length of 3/8" hardwood dowel

1/2" or 5/8" Tap (I utilized 1/2, Moen says 5/8).

Tap Handle (12" customizable torque works after all other options have been exhausted)

Tapping/Threading Oil

Vinegar and old Tooth Brush (valve body certainly has water stores)

Substantial bad habit grasps or pincers.

Little needle-nose Bad habit Grasps

Moen 12xx Cartridges

There are 3 Moen Cartridges in the 12xx arrangement. They all utilization similar apparatuses and procedures to supplant them, yet the cartridges and valve bodies are distinctive.

When I was supplanting my Cartridge in my shower, I needed to figure which one I had... since I couldn't without much of a stretch discover the data in the pipes stores or on the web. I couldn't convey the cartridge to match it since it was stuck in the valve body!

Moen 1200

This is the fundamental Moen cartridge utilized for single-handle operation. Lift/pull for on/off and volume. Pivot left/ideal for hot/chilly.

This cartridge gives you a chance to set a temperature, however it doesn't control temperature or stream in view of weight. At the end of the day, on the off chance that somebody flushes a can and the water gets hotter while the tank refills ... you most likely have this cartridge!

This is an all-metal cartridge with 2-3 cirular O Rings around it, and one curved O-Ring.

The genuine Moen ones arrive in a fixed plastic box so that the greasing up oil doesn't dissipate or solidify. In the event that you get a reseller's exchange one, search for some oil to run with it so you can lube the outside O-rings so it will introduce without harm. In the event that you get the Moen one, you might need to get some oil at any rate for future valve support!

Run of the mill cost for this cartridge is around $30-$40.

Moen 1222

The 1222 cartridge is a Moen posi-temp cartridge. In the event that I got this privilege ... It's a solitary lever that turns from off to hot through halfway temperatures. You can push/pull the level to control water volume. It doesn't give you a chance to keep a similar temperature setting inevitably, similar to the 1200 does. It keeps you from turning on rankling heated water at the same time ... which might be an incredible thing if there are youthful children in the house ... alternately your guest originates from somewhere (like Chicago) where hot and chilly is turned around (typical is hot left, frosty right, Chicago is the inverse).

This cartridge tries to keep up a set temperature by utilizing a weight differential amongst hot and icy sources. On the off chance that you flush the latrine, the valve will "see" the lessened icy water weight, and decrease the stream of high temp water to a similar weight to attempt and keep up a steady temperature.

You can perceive this cartridge by the dark oval weight diaphgram on the end far from the stem. This cartridge may likewise be accessible with a plastic body ... which might be less demanding to expel later on.

This cartridge is more costly - $60-$70 than the basic 1200 cartridge.

Moen 1225

I can't reveal to you what the 1225 is utilized for, however I can disclose to you what it would appear that!.

Rather than the arrangements of O-rings on the 1200, or the curved stomach on the 1222, it has a dark elastic barrel toward the end far from the stem.

This is a lower estimated cartridge, around $20-$25.

Convenient References

This discussion has a decent arrangement of articles and encounters on individuals having and taking care of issues with Moen cartridges. It gave the premise of the data i expected to make sense of how to get my cartridge out.

Afterward, I discovered this site has some unique exhortation on the general procedure. It explains the jolt reference I found in the above blog.

Inconvenience Expelling the Cartridge from a Moen Spigot.

The enormous thing they recommend is threading the inside with a similar 1/2" tap I utilized, then stacking washers against the outside valve body, and threading in a rush to use as an appropriate puller sort thingamajig. The trouble I see with their recommendation is two-overlap:

It is useful for kicking the cartridge off moving.... also, it will just haul it out around 1/4" and no more. The tap-against-dowel strategy has a more drawn out scope of movement, and will let you effortlessly separate a greater amount of the cartridge from the valve body.

In the event that the cartridge body is turning, you should hold it from turning for 3x as long - tap in, tap out, and after that dash in!