Epic failure of a cartridge design
This Moen cartridge needs annual replacing. The entire cartridge. Simply changing the gaskets and lubing won't work. This is my third valve. The original one actually broke at the stem from being so hard to turn, metal fatigue failed. The whole thing gets hard to turn in about 6 months.
Before you think, "hard water," I have another house in the same water district using American Standard and it works as well as day one... 10 years later. My parents valves work as well as day one after 30 years. With zero maintenance.
This cartridge is epic failure. I just don't want to shell out the bucks and deal with the hassle and disruption of opening up the tile wall, replacing the entire valve, patch the tiles back with visible repairs that I have to stare at for the rest of my life.
If you are standing at Home Depot looking at valves, skip this one. Go American Standard.
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