Tips to Install and Replace Bathroom Shower Fixtures
Changing shower fixtures is a particularly easy thing to do. With today's economy the way it is, calling a plumber isn't a choice. Each thing we are able to learn how to do ourselves is cash in our pockets to pay the lights, food the mortgage and so on. It could be by the curve (use you channel locks), by the pump if you've got a well, or you could have to switch off your breaker. Take the plastic piece in the front of the knob using your flat head screw driver, and then use your Phillips screw driver to get rid of the knob. Take off the face plate with flat head screw driver. If it's a handle you'll have to use your allen wrench or it could be a Phillips screw driver to get rid of the set screw. After all of the fixtures are removed it's time to put them back on. Add your plumbers tape to your arm that comes out of the shower wall. Ensure you go all of the way around many times so it doesn't leak. Hand tight your shower head onto the arm going clockwise, finish tightening with your channel locks and your fabric. The material is not too hard so that it doesn't scratch you shower head. Screw your tap on by hand until hand tight going clockwise, now use your channel locks and go round 1 or 2 more times. Put your face plate back on, put on your knobs using your Phillips screw driver once more, replace your plastic piece.
Bathroom shower fixtures are the one that we almost look every day and say to ourselves that we indeed require to replace it sometime soon. Then as fast as we are out of the shower and on to other stuff we forget them.
Now all you should do is install the new ones. Hot and cold water handles can be removed by unscrewing a set screw on the base of the handle and softly wiggling them off. The trim for the handles will just come off when pulled. If there's any old caulk holding the trim on, you may wish to go round the outside with a use knife and separate the caulk from the wall. The shower head can be removed by unscrewing it from the pipe coming in from the wall.
Clean the stems and shower head pipe threads with a good household cleaner. Let them dry and place some Teflon tape round the threads from the shower head pipe. Install the new hot and cold water handles by placing on the new trim pieces and then pushing the knobs on delicately and screwing in the set screw at the bottom. Then place a bead of silicone caulk round the outside edge of the trim and smoothing with your finger. This could not only cause it to appear nicer, but will fill in any tiny pin holes in the bead of caulk.
