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Plumbing: New Valves & Shower Cartridges

We got new shower valves and shower cartridges with the help from AC Plumbing. (They were recommended by my friend, Rick.) After my bathroom valve changing experience, I decided to have all of the angle stops and shower cartridges replaced in the condo. Having already changed the angle stops in the kids' bathroom, I thought I could do them myself. My plan was to have AC swap the cartridges and while they were doing that, I'd work on the angle stops by myself and ask the plumber for pointers along the way.

Eddie, the plumber arrived as scheduled and soon after got to work. I, too, got to work on the angle stops. I asked him a few questions about how to work on the stops and he got me going in the right direction. I had not finished changing out the first angle stop before Eddie was done changing both shower cartridges! He saw me struggling with my project, took pity on me and offered to help me change out all seven stops at no extra charge.

So we got to work together and were able to complete the whole project within in one hour. Over the course of the project, we had to cut off the compression rings from each angle stop. This required a special tool that Eddie had on hand. If I didn't have him, his knowledge, experience and tools then I think I would still be there, working on those stops.

I highly recommend AC Plumbing and Eddie, if you ever need a plumber.

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