Anyone on here good with plumbing?
My shower has a pretty steady drip out of the faucet. I've replaced the faucet itself and the cartridge where the handle turns on. No dice.
Today, I took it all apart and cleaned all the surfaces that mate together, and rubbed Vaseline into the O rings. It did not solve it. I watched YouTube videos on the subject and they all say to replace the cartridge.
Is there some reason it could bey shower head letting in air to the line or something? It's the detachable kind and I took it off the hook which temporarily stopped the dripping. We have pretty hard water, and the shower head has some calcium buildup.
What's my next move?
Okay, long shot but calcium buildup can be fixed cheaply and easily, and even if it doesn't fix the problem it will make your shower head work better.
Buy some citric acid crystals and mix up a fairly strong batch, several tablespoons to a liter of water. Soak the shower head in it overnight so its completely submerged then use a hard brush to scrape off any residual scale.
Even if it doesn't solve the problem, citric acid is amazingly useful as a household cleaner for stuff like descaling and polishing. Just be sure to give it a quick google first cos obvs there are some things you do not want to risk mixing with acid and as always do not mix it with bleach or use it on stuff you also use bleach on. To be honest never mix any cleaning chemicals with bleach. You almost certainly know that about bleach anyway but it's so fucking dangerous it bears repeating just on the offchance.
I'll give that a shot at some point. We are also trying to clean off the calcium/rust buildup that accumulated near the drain. The people we bought our house from were apparently allergic to maintenance