Adjusting Shower Max Temp - Delta Dryden Monitor 17 Series
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- Adjusting Shower Max Temp - Delta Dryden Monitor 17 Series
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Showing how to adjust your max water temperature for this particular trim kit. Rotating the stop limiter more towards the "H" gets you more hot water in the mix. This in theory may make your coldest temp warmer, but I rarely want to take a cold shower anyway.
This particular trim kit makes it very easy to adjust the max temp as opposed to some other trim kits I've installed.
I worked for Delta Faucet back through the 90’s but had to come here when installing my valve😂.
Thanks buddy. Clear and quick!
Hey Tom. This was just what we needed to figure out how to adjust the temperature. The instruction manual just did not clearly show us what to do, but 3+ minutes with your video made it so clear. Thanks!
Happy to help! Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to like and sub!
nice! I'm learning more with each video I watch :) my parents have a shower faucet like this, where there's almost like a separate "volume control" for Cold/Hot, different from the main faucet turning-knob that controls the water flow
Thank you!! I recently had a new shower installed and have been suffering from lukewarm showers and couldn’t find the proper guidance to fix it until I found your video. Really appreciate it!
Nice! Happy to help! Enjoy those HOT showers!
Thank you so much.......this lady got tired of waiting for Mr. Fixit to get here and did it with the help of your video. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Congrats! Happy I could help!
Awesome vid! I couldn't find a video on our specific handle, but yours was as close as I could get, and it got the job done. Most other videos I found were the single handle, not the double. Thanks for posting!
Happy to help, thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! most of the videos that I had watched were for a different shower faucet, finally, I found a shower faucet similar to mine!
I tried your method and it works, I appreciated!
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Thank you so much for making this video, you explained exactly what we needed to do to get our shower hot enough (after a plumber had left it stopping at barely over lukewarm)! I only had to surf around a bit to find out how to remove our hot/cold handle as there is no setscrew (I had to pry it off with a couple of screwdrivers) but your video explained how all the internal parts work together! Thanks again!
Happy to help! Enjoy that HOT shower now!
Perfect instrumental video... Just what I needed! 😉
This really helped me, thank you so much. Now I can finally have hot baths
Enjoy!
thank thank you. After more than 4 years of tepid showers i can finally enjoy a hot one. My plumber could not figure it out!
Well...happy to help! Thanks for watching! Now you’re your own plumber!
I could not get mine to go warm enough. Because of that I took a Dremel and ground down that temperatures stop raining a little bit so I can rotate it more anti-clockwise. I hope some buddy else may need this information and could be helpful for them. You can buy that rotational stop ring for about eight bucks at Amazon
Thanks for sharing. Generally as long as the valve is working correctly you can scald yourself. Sometimes they have internal leaks or obstructions so they don’t get the full flow even if you set the temp way up.
Excellent explanation. Saved me a lot of time! Thx
You’re welcome!
Thanks! Great video, very clear and concise! Now I can take a hot shower!!
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great video, very thorough
Thanks for watching!
Very helpful! Saved me a call to the plumber.
Thanks! This was very helpful. I now see I'm missing a part from my shower assembly.
Yikes! Hope you can find the piece you need without having to buy the whole new trim kit! Thanks for watching. Good luck!
@@TomBrueggen Just ordered it yesterday. We'll see!
Awesome! Thanks!
Fixed it!
Thanks for your help
Happy to help!
Thank you!
Happy to help!
What if you leave the "Temperature adjustment Ring" off. Can the main handle adjust the temperature without it?
I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking. I guess if you have this same setup just give it a whirl and let us know 😆
Maybe you won't see this comment, but did you ever run into the situation where the hot water FLOW was terribly low?
I tested the hot water pressure coming through the brass rough diverter without any of the handle hardware inserted and the pressure is absolutely there (it made a mess it blasted out so strongly), but no matter what orientation I try with the rest of the valve assembly, the hot water trickles out. The cold water is fine. I tried adjusting the hot/cold stopper. I've tried rotating the inner valve in every direction I could, as long as the two little keyed triangles slot in properly to no avail.
Any ideas?
I’m not entirely sure. I haven’t experience that in a tub/shower valve, but our sink valve is like that. Always has been since install. I assumed the pex supply line got kinked, or maybe obstructed during construction or something, but in all my little investigations I’ve never found either to be true for sure. I’ve actually looked at the line from the manifold to the kitchen sink and it appears not kinked, but I’ve never taken apart under the sink to check that something wasn’t lodged in there. If you have steady high pressure to the mixing valve then it must be in the cartridge itself. I’ve had my cartridges go “bad” where suddenly the water wouldn’t get as hot.
@@TomBrueggen I'm amazed you found this comment and replied. Thank you kindly for that. As for the problem, I ended up scouring the internet and found a plumber's forum where people complained about this issue. I figured it out:
There is some device inside of the cartridge called the "pressure balancing spool." This little piece of garbage was apparently (in THREE separate Delta kits I bought) "stuck" inside of the cartridge. This can supposedly happen if you turn on only one water source (hot/cold). The pressure from the water can jam the badly engineered spool inside, thereby blocking water flow permanently from the other side. The fix was to take the cartridge out and just tap it against the wall. I immediately felt and heard the spool free itself, installed it back into the wall and voila, problem fixed. Unreal.
Delta engineers should be ashamed for this piss-poor engineering. I spent many, many frustrating and wet hours trying to figure this out.
@@ValFckGoogle well I’m happy you fixed it! And that’s good to know in case mine does it. We used to have silt in our water and had at least one or two cartridges act up during that time. I figured the silt was just plugging them so I just threw them away and got a new one
Question: Can I just eliminate the regulator stop altogether? I put the stop to what should be the position for the hottest setting and the water never gets anywhere near uncomfortable. Other faucets in the house can almost be scalding. The Delta faucet gets just past lukewarm. So, can I just remove the stop?
Mine can all adjust to scalding, but I’ve had the cartridges sometimes malfunction internally not get full hot like you said. I replaced the cartridge and had full hot again. It’s like it gets obstructed inside so even though you adjust it’ll not fully flow from the hot side
@@TomBrueggen My version might be different. I had the plumber install these and he asked me how I wanted the stop and explained it. I said I wanted the full range so I could decide how hot. But I was not satisfied so opened it up and looked at the directions and readjusted it--looking for the C and H as you mention. It is better and I think I just need to have the shower running longer before getting in than I think I'm used to. I've had it for a little over a month. I was just wondering too what would happen if I just pulled that plastic stop out and put the handle back on. Would I then get the full range of temperatures? I haven't had time to do that since writing my question. Thanks, Tom! I appreciate you reply.
@@ds61821 I don’t know what would happen. Maybe the handle can spin all the way around? Give it a shot and see. I don’t think it’ll break anything.
@@TomBrueggen I will give it a try. My guess is the temperature regular will stay put wherever I leave it but just not be limited to some cooler temp than I like. Thanks.
@@TomBrueggen Problem resolved: I used a very fine coping saw to remove some of the wedge stop (on my faucet version) to permit the value stem to turn to a hotter temp. I did the same with the inner ring (not the CS Lewis's inner ring) and it now works GREAT. I just tested the shower with a shower. I even had to turn the temperature control to a bit cooler to get the ideal setting. Thanks for this post and helps.
we have a delta system like this one, but we either have very hot or cold. there is no warm. what are we doing wrong? please help
Sounds like something inside the cartridge is washed out. You should be able to obtain a replacement cartridge for about $25 and it’s virtually plug and play. I’ve had a few cartridges act funny and I don’t even bother to try and reseal them. Just get a new one and toss the old one
A customer of mine said she wasnt getting hot enough water out of her shower. It was a Delta very similar same principle and it was adjusted all the way as hot as it would go . I fooled around with that thing for 30 min trying all kinds of different positions and could never get it any more than luke warm. I think the cartridge had become defective. I watch you tube videos and she had the original instructions. There is only one way these things can go and it just wasnt gonna get any hotter. I told her to call the plumber who installed it.
Yes I’ve had one do that before too. Got to where it just wouldn’t be any hotter. I think they can either wash out of get plugged internally. I just threw it away and got a new one and it was back to working correctly. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for watching!
I just replaced my cartridge and now the water isn’t getting hot enough and the water pressure seems worse. It looks like the temp control is set to the hottest setting based on how far the handle goes to the hot side. I have no idea what else to try to get the water hotter and the pressure back to where it was before I replaced the cartridge.
How did you get the adjustment cover off
It just snaps off.
Audio reverb in this shower prevented this old codger from being able to hear your instructions
Sorry about that. I think I was trying to talk lower to minimize echo. Maybe you can do like a Lego book and just note each time something changed 😁. Thanks for watching!
How do you get the endcap off to even get to that adjustment piece.
My temp adjustment handle cover just snaps off. Then take the center screw out and it all comes out.
Tom Brueggen thanks I got mine off too.
I wish he showed “snapping off”. I pulled pretty hard but not coming off. I’m afraid I break it.
Can I leave the limiter off to get full range and temp?
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but I don't think so, or I don't think it would really do any good. I'm not the expert on how these valves work really, but my understanding is that you have 100% of the flow at all times. It's just always a blend of hot or cold. So it's not like at full hot you are still running only 80% of the hot open.
I guess you can try, and let us all know. As it is, when I crank my shower to full hot, it's enough to scald me and make me uncomfortable. So I don't see any need to try and get any more than that.
Tom Brueggen thanks. Due to your awesome video I replaced mine today flawlessly. I thought I would leave out the temperature limit control but it is required to provide correct spacing for the temp knob. Thanks again!
John Bercik haha, indeed! I kind of figured the spacing would be off if left out. That screw is just the right length. Thanks for the support man. Enjoy your shower!
Tom Brueggen thanks, I added loctite blue to the screw because my old one kept loosening.
I have it set to full hot and it’s still tepid water. Every other faucet it my house is literally 40 degrees warmer. What’s going on!?
Probably the mixing valve has failed internally. Despite your settings, it’s still not fully moving to hot. I recently replaced the mixing valve in our second bath because of this. Full hot setting and water was quite cool still. A replacement cartridge is around $20.
Tom Brueggen thanks for the quick reply. The entire shower is brand new. Total bathroom remodel right down the studs was just completed this week. The mixing valve is brand new as well. Makes me wonder if the plumber even tested it, although he had the adjusting valve set to full hot so I’m thinking yes.
I just tested the water with a thermometer and it’s only 92 degrees.
It still just doesn’t make sense that every other tap is hot but this one. It’s got to be the valve. You can test by pulling all the guts out of the valve (water supply off), then restore hot water supply to see if it’s full hot. That would confirm it.
Tom Brueggen it’s 1AM here on the east coast. I’ll call the plumber in the morning. So frustrating. Thanks for informative video and the chat and I’ll keep you posted.
Mine starts lukewarm and the gets real hot
Like it’s taking a while for the hot water to get to your shower from the water heater? Or like it randomly adjusts itself after a while?
So pull the trim off aka the one thing probably everyone wants to know. Come on bruh
Yeah bra, snap dat dere trim cap off. It jus clips in yeah. Then twist that dang ol’ screw out and the whole sumbitch falls apart. Good luck 😁
Stupidest design ever who ever came up with this should swan dive inside a volcnao
That's pretty intense. I thought it was actually a pretty good design, since I'm able to make adjustments so easily.