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The Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household Projects

Season 2 • Episode 3 • Installing a Single-handle Shower Valve

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The Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household Projects Season 2, Episode 3: Installing a Single-handle Shower Valve

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Richard helps a homeowner replace an existing three valve shower control with a single-handled mixing valve. In a three-valve control, one handle controls hot water, one handle controls cold, and the third handle diverts water from the spout up to the showerhead. The new single-handle valve prevents scalding, should there be a sudden drop in cold water pressure. Watch The Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household Projects Season 2, Episode 3 Installing a Single-handle Shower Valve in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household Projects Season 2, Episode 3 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

7 episodes
1

Replacing a Toilet Flange

Richard helps a homeowner with a wobbly toilet. With the toilet removed, he determines that it rocked back and forth because the cast-iron toilet fl nge sat up too high.
2

Fixing a Bathtub Stopper

Richard helps a homeowner with a bathtub that wouldn’t hold water.
3

Installing a Single-handle Shower Valve

Richard helps a homeowner replace an existing three valve shower control with a single-handled mixing valve. In a three-valve control, one handle controls hot water, one handle controls cold, and the third handle diverts water from the spout up to the showerhead. The new single-handle valve prevents scalding, should there be a sudden drop in cold water pressure.
4

Installing a Water-saving Toilet

Richard replaces an old 3.5 gallons per flush (GPF) toilet with a new, state-of-the-art dual-flushing unit that uses 0.9 GPF for liquids and 1.6 GPF for solids.
5

Regrouting Bathroom Tile

Tom helps a homeowner re-grout a small tile floor in her master bathroom. The white-colored grout had become dirty and discolored and some of it had broken loose.
6

Installing a Bathroom Fan

Kevin and electrician Brian Bergeron help a homeowner install a new fan in her bathroom. The fan exhausts the humid air created by the shower to the outside of the house.
7

Replacing a Bathroom Vanity and Sink

Richard helps a homeowner replace an old, outdated looking vanity in her master bathroom.