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ss4188 (MI)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Shower is ~15 years old. Delta Monitor 1400 series.
Shower worked fine yesterday. This morning only a trickle out of the faucet. Replaced with new Delta cartridge. Issue persists. Removed, reinstalled, no luck.
Removed, turned water supply back on and only cold water comes out of the valve body with cartridge removed. I'm guessing this is abnormal? Water works normally (Hot & Cold) at all other faucets in house. No individual supply valve to this shower.
When faucet is slowly turned on, cold water comes out at low pressure. As faucet is further turned all flow shuts off.
Is there potential for blockage in the brass valve body? I do not have an access panel for this shower.
Another potential source of the problem: It was -12 degrees last night and the temperature topped out at 0 degrees today. Frozen hot water line? Doesn't seem likely to me as I'd imagine the hot/cold supplies would run near each other and all other lines in house work fine.
Any ideas?
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m & m (MD)
Yes, at this point you need to assume there is a freeze up on the hot water supply to the shower.
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
Absolutely a frozen hot water pipe.
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hj (AZ)
quote; Doesn't seem likely to me as I'd imagine the hot/cold supplies would run near each other and all other lines in house work fine.
They could run NEXT to each other and one, often the hot, could still freeze by itself.
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