Installing a new shower valve cartridge is as easy as sliding the new cartridge into the existing valve, securing any necessary retaining nuts, and inserting the valve clip to lock the cartridge ...

Installing valve trim is a task simple enough that conceivably—if all goes according to plan, of course—you could finish the job before you begin your morning shower routine. Even beginning do ...

First, here are the tools you need: One shower shutoff valve, one roll of Teflon pipe tape, and one pair of vice grip pliers. The total cost of this project was $5, the cost of the valve itself.

This changes the shower water mixture, allowing much more hot water into it. The simplest solution to this problem is to install a single-handle shower mixing valve with a pressure-balancing feature.

If you need to replace the entire shower valve and the parts that go with it, you may want to consider a valve rebuild kit. Shower valve kits cost between $20 and $250, depending on the type of valve.