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   hammer | Sep 22, 2007 01:26am | #1

   This should be fixable without opening the sheet rock. That would be needed for full replacement which might eventually happen. Is this a single handle? double handle?

   If it's not too old. Remove the handle(s) and then the cover plate(s). Older units that are double handles will need a new washer and or/seat if badly worn. More newer controls (single handles) have a cartridge that is removed behind the control handle. This all depends on the make and model, but the problem you are asking should be fixable from the shower side.

   Most Big Boxes sell the replacement cartidges, but call around. all sell the jumbo assortments of washers for fixing the older units. Best to take the washer in. In some cases flipping the washer over and reusing it works.

   Good luck.

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   byrd48 | Sep 22, 2007 01:56am | #3

   Thank you.
   This is a two handle unit, and is approximately 5 years old. This just started happening in the past few weeks, and it does leak hours after being used. And you will randomly hear the pipes groan as if it is causing hammering.
   Another point, the water comes from the shower head, not the tub filler, and the diverter is closed, so if you run the water, it would come out the tub filler. So I'm even more curious why it's coming out the shower head, it must be in the diverter.
   I'm pretty sure there's no cartridge in this one, but maybe as you suggest I can take the diverter off and replace the valve seats?
   Thanks,
   Jon

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   DanH | Sep 22, 2007 03:23am | #4

   Sorry, if it's coming out of the shower head and there's a diverter switched to the tub spout, it's still unlikely to be a defective valve.Is it coming out at a steady rate, or a "blurb" every now and again?
   If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader

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   byrd48 | Sep 22, 2007 04:16am | #5

   Hi,
   It is a random blurb. We tried to see if anything else caused it, like turning on and off the adjacent sink in the bathroom, but there is no rhyme or reason to it.
   Thanks,
   Jon

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   DanH | Sep 22, 2007 05:00am | #6

   Then it's still sounding like water caught in the shower head.
   If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader

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   DanH | Sep 22, 2007 01:43am | #2

   There's another thread around here somewhere about shower heads "blurbling" a bit of water out sometime after turning the shower off, often tens of minutes later. This is simply the water in the shower head and pipe, finally draining after a bubble of air gets in to allow it to drain. Perfectly normal.

   Only if the shower continues to drip-drip at a regular rate hours after being shut off would I suspect an actual problem.

   If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader
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   hammer | Sep 24, 2007 06:28pm | #7

   Sounds like the diverter would be the forst thing I would replace. Since the Tub and shower are on the same line. When the diverter is lifted the shower works but when the diverter is open, gravity has it, that the tub fills.

   The diverter should open and drain the water in the shower line when the water is turned off. Any additional keak would go to the tub. Diverters are dheap and easy to swap. That is what I would change.

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   DanH | Sep 24, 2007 06:46pm | #8

   Diverters vary considerably -- some "automatically" switch to tub when the water is turned off, others do not.
   If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader