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14 years ago

Hi, Back in 2003, we purchased a shower stall from Alcove products in Toronto, Canada. Normally they sell their tubs and showers unplumbed, but ours came complete. One of the four 90 degree on/off valves above the hot/cold mixer is leaking. Contacting Alcove only lead to a guess on their part as to who the manufacturer is, Grohe or Hansgrohe. Made contact with them and it's a no go. I am trying local suppliers as well as retailers here in the states that sell

Alcove products with no luck. I have pictures as well as measurements of the valve and shower showing the trim rings, etc. My question for anyone out there is if you might know of some suppliers who deal with many mfgr's of valves, possibly I can contact them by e-mail with those pics and hope for the best. The valve has no ID numbers or any writing whatsoever and we never recieved any schematic/manuals with the shower. Alcove did send a catalog of parts for 2003 from Grohe that does show some matching components in our shower, such as the mixer valve trim rings, hand held assembly, etc., but no on/off valves resembling ours. The catalog is in french, but does have pictures, no go there. I'm assuming the shower is a mix of mgfr's components so this is no doubt going to be a crap shoot! Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, Mark

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brickeyee
14 years ago
Just replace the entire valve, trim plates and all.
sierraeast
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks , Brick. That will be a last resort as we'd like everything to match up original but might end up being the route we have to take. I can't believe the outfit we bought it from doesn't know the valve mfgr, but i guess that's how it goes these days. Another e-mail to them got a response that they are still on it, so we will see what happens. F.I.Y., Alfono stems out of N.Y. has many valves that you can see online through their online catalogs. They had some that were close, or might even work with other trim rings, but for your own future reference, they seem to have a lot of inventory. Here's the link:

Here is a link that might be useful: Alfano stems and valves
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