Swapping the double valve for a single valve, which I will provide myself, and moving the shower head up about a foot. Using mostly the same copper pipe. $700 seems high to me.

I had a plumber come out to replace the cartridge in my shower, and it broke inside the copper valve. Not his fault. It was pretty stuck in there. In order to fix it, he said he needed to replace the shower head, tub spout, and trim kit along with the valve and it ended up costing a little less than $1000 for less than 2 hours of work. Does that reasonable?

Also, is it customary to replace everything if you have to replace the valve?

I had a pinhole leak in a copper pipe connecting the tub spout to the shower valve. The plumber replaced the whole copper pipe for $160, and there's no leak anymore. I should get another 20-40 years of service from this.

The valve itself is an old Mixet style that works just fine. Several plumbers highly recommended I replace the whole valve for $750-$1400 cost.

due to hard water, every 5 years or so, the Mixet cartridge only needs a new rubber washer and O-ring, for a total cost of 60 cents. It's essentially bulletproof.

Why fix what isn't broke? money grab?

Hi all! I’m trying to figure out how much this leaky faucet should be to have a plumber fix. My Flume data shows it drips around 0.5 gallons per hour on average.

I am very time limited and not a DIY type of person unfortunately. Not sure if this is a rip the wall open kind of thing or a quick hardware swap. I have had some hit and miss experiences with plumbers for other plumbing issues in the past so trying to get a sense of the cost range before I start contacting places.

WA state

Any insights are appreciated!

They're also replacing the faucet and handle set and they have to cut into the shower to do so. I've never had to hire a plumber before so I'm nervous. The first plumber wanted to charge about $4k but that cost also included a pressure regulator and tank expansion. The second plumber said that was unnecessary because our PSI is only 65.

I bought a shower head and I’m not strong enough to unscrew the current one. I just need it switched, everything is hooked up and it should be a DIY situation, but I just don’t have the physical strength to do it and I’m worried that I’m going to damage the threading on the current one.

Update: got it off in 5 sec with the advice from everyone here. Now to install 🥲

Update 2: FULLY INSTALLED AND WORKING. EVERYTHING WAS DONE IN UNDER 10min I’m so proud 🥹 thank you to everyone who helped me and made me feel confident enough to go through with this

I replaced a shower valve for my bosses tenant, and man that thing was stuck in there. I had to basically drill it out and chisel the dang thing out. Also cursed at it and called it a bitch a few times. (Don't worry the customer was not there. Even if he was, he'd be cursing at it with me, he was chill lol.)

When I got to the house, the shower was completely running, even with the handle in the off position. That's how I knew it was the shower valve.

My city's water is so bad that it corrodes literally everything it comes into contact with in very little time, relative to other cities water. Along with it being 126° out here in the summer, Arizona babyy. Can't even take a cold shower out here cuz the pipes get so hot and heat up the water. No need for a water heater lmao.

Anyways, the whole job took about 3 hours since I had to run to home depot, just to find out that they didn't have it in stock, even though the website said they had sixteen. The sale they had, "buy 12 and get this price", really lured someone to buy ALL of them. Lol... so I had to run to Lowes and pick one up

My question is, if I were a handyman, what would I charge for this job. Keep in mind the part itself cost $66.

I'm located in Metro Detroit area. I just ripped out tile shower, all open, standard configuration with a single handle trim and basic shower head.

Just updating to a new Delta shower.

I'm doing demo, tile etc myself

Approx how much is a fair price for a plumber to just swap the valve in under these conditions, down to studs and open?

Don't need any repairs etc

Approx how long does this take?

Thx

I live in the Salt Lake City Area. My house is a 30 yr old house, and recently we found out the water pressure of our house is too high since we moved in 15 yrs ago. So all of our water valves had been failling lately.

One of the failing valve is a shower valve, it's leaking water drip by drip. We open up the cover over the valve and it seems like a whole piece of metal instead of being a valve with cartridge. I called a plumber and got quoted for the replacement. Cutting out the valve from the front, replacing the cover, replacing the pipe to the shower head was around $2300 total tax included.

I've seen posts saying that replacing the cartridge being from $600 to $1600. I understand replacing the whole valve would take more, but do you think this is a fair price?

Edit 1:

Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/7wrqaUc The original quote was $2300, but he tried to talk me into a deal with their $200 membership and lowering the total to $2200, with the usual "today only deal". I lost to that pressure and said yes, but still wanted to ask for 2nd opinions.

We already replaced the pressure regulator valve so water pressure should be good.

Edit 2:

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I'm on my trip to homedepot now.

He tried to talk me into installing a salt based water softener for $3500 or a Halo 5 for $6500 too, any thoughts?

Edit 3:

Got the cartridge and replaced it. Took the shower head off to make sure there's no water stored other than the riser pipe. 1 drop of water over 5 minutes. I think there's no more leak. It was quite literally $30.

I am still looking for opinions on that water softner tho, any info helps. Water in the place I live is around 10 grains of hardness from what I looked up.

Edit 4:

Called them to cancel the appointment. Seems pretty calm about it. Hopefully I get my refund. Still thinking about that water softner, but maybe will go ask home depot if they install that... I was pretty fixated on that cause I wanted to compensate the cancellation, but reading through the replies made me realize how ripped off I was.

Edit 5:

Looked at my recipt again and realized it was even cheaper than I thought, because I bought both Moen 1200 and 1225 to be safe. I used 1225 and it was only $14.97. BRUH.

Edit 6:

25% cancellation fee. I'm asking them for their cancellation policy. I'm crying.

Edit 7:

I called and asked them if I can get a refund in full two days ago, the phone lady said the manager will call back. They never called back.

I scheduled a water test with Home Depot and chatting with the guy about this, turns out this plumbing company is in two lawsuits in Utah. Yikes. He recommanded me to send a signed offical cancellation letter to them so they can't say that they didn't get my cancellation request - if it goes to court.

BTW for the water test. My water was 16 grains of hardness with 235 ppm impurity. The options I got was a Ecowater IDP40s for $2895 or a IDP50cc for $4495, or $4295/$5695 if I include a reverse osmosis (ERO385). Quick google search tells me anything lower than 500 ppm is good for drinking so I'm leaning towards no reverse osmosis. Getting another test later today from Lowe's.

Edit 8:

Just got done with the Lowe's quote. They are selling Evolve's softeners (labeled AO Smith cuz they got bought out). The lower end model seems too bad even from their pitch with only 5 years of life expectancy. I was quoted AOE1044 for $4495 and $4995 with a Clearflow reverse osmosis, plus $450 for installation. I brought up the earlier quote and they offered a $726 discount for the day.

I called the Home depot guy again and He seemed confident that the higher end AO smith softener is worse than their lower end IDP40s, so no counter offer. Doing more research to compare them ATM.

BTW the Lowe's guys explained that the discount was because that they have contractors on the call with no job and renewable credits from AO Smith, and they want to both get their contractors working and use up their credit. I wonder how much truth is in there.

Edit 9:

Back to the plumbing cancellation fee. Called them a couple more times, they always say that they will call back, but that never happened. Surprisingly the original technician answered to my texts and said that they will dropped the cancellation fee after some back and forth (granted I used some strong words like complaint to the master board and public media). Hope I will never need to pull these text messages out for court.

Hey guys, my name is Sam and I'm from the Dallas area. I have a house built in 2011, and the handle in the shower recently became very stubborn and hard to turn. I had a plumber come check it out, and I got charged $400 for a cartridge replacement...

Does that sound reasonable to you guys? The part is ~$50, and I know there plumbing repairs can be expensive, but this is a bit steep.. I've seen other posts where the job was done for $250-280. Would it be unreasonable to try and push this down?

Details of the invoice:

Replace Moen Posi Temp Shower Cartridge - $325

Local service fee - $75

Got the usual problem — leaky bath faucet with an old shower cartridge. But a plumber quoted $700 for a "cartridge rebuild". Is that ridiculous? Or is this becoming normal?

I'd like to try myself. But the cartridge hasn't been touched in over 30 years. I'm a terrible handyman, and it's my mother's home, so I don't wanna damage the pipes. And emergency fees will be $$$ if I screw up.

Should I try myself? If quotes are regularly $400 - $700 it couldn't hurt to try. But maybe I should keep price shopping. $700 sounds insane. But let me know your thoughts

Shower is leaked bad at the handle and showerhead.

Hello all, I was currently told by a plumber that this might cost 1,000$. My shower handle was screwed on with the wrong kind of screw and it's a turn knob. The screw rusted and the head of the screw rusted off, the plastic knob broke off too, now I can take a wrench and and turn the faucet on but i don't know how to put on a new knob on with the screw stuck in there. How much would it cost for this? I also am located in MO if it helps and any advice is appreciated.

Southern California

My landlord is a very sweet old man already struggling with financial issues. He had someone come in and do this work, but he told me it cost thousands of dollars. To me it just looks like the handle was replaced (we used to have broken ones we needed to use pliers to turn on) but I'm no expert. This was done in 3 showers. They all look the same as this one.

It didn't sound right to me that just replacing the handle and trim would cost so much so I'm asking here if this was all that was really done and how much it would cost.

I’m a 2 year commercial plumber who’s worked in primarily the healthcare industry and not done any residential work except for at my own house. And honestly just the mixing valve in my shower.

They need their mixing valve replaced and asked me to come by and do it. We never even talked about a price, but I’m curious what an average plumber would charge? I will probably cut them a nice deal being my girlfriends close family friends and all

Thanks for the help!