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? asked in Home & GardenDo It Yourself (DIY) · 1 decade ago

How do you loosen a water pipe in the shower?

The water pipe that comes from the wall (the one you put the shower head on) is too low for my husband and I. I bought a different one that will make it taller, but I can not get the original one off. I know for a fact that the bathroom was a complete gut job in the last 5 years, so it's not like it's been there for 70 years. Obviously, if I could afford a plumber, I would call one. I have a Robogrip and a rubber grippy thingie (I was trying to prevent damage and create more "traction") and I can not get the darn thing to budge.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you are talking about the chrome piping the shower heat attaches to and not the pipe in the wall, try using two wrenches - one holding the chrome nut and the other on the pipe. You could also try putting a rod of some sort inside the pipe - if it is angled at all you can turn and try to "break" the seal at the connection. Plumbers use teflon tape on the threads when they install those pipes and then crank them in real tight. You are gonna have to try to muscle it! If you are talking about the pipe in the wall (probably copper or plastic) you need to call a plumber.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    The pipe ought to no longer corrode, yet once you have problematic water, you may get deposits on the in the tank from minerals interior the water. In some aspects, a warm water tank in uncomplicated terms lasts some years with the aid of fact it gets plugged up with the mineral deposits from problematic water. yet while he sent a roto rooter with the aid of and it fastened the subject, in spite of if in uncomplicated terms temporarily, then something else is inflicting it to diminish back up. It sounds as though there's a spoil interior the drain line.

  • 1 decade ago

    If u have the actual shower head off already u can take a pair of channel locks, stick one of the handles inside the pipe and use that for more leverage to loosen it, I come across this problem often and never fails me.

    Source(s): Plumber 10yrs
  • 1 decade ago

    Make sure you go counter clockwise to loosen it. When putting the new one on, make sure you use some pipe dope on the male threads and secure it real tight. Good Luck to you.

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  • Tomcat
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    You need a bigger wrench to give you more leverage. Grab the spout as close as you can to the wall and turn counterclockwise.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    sorry ,but you got to be able to get inside the wall to get at that pipe.the pipe going to he shower head is just not secured to any brace and it:s loose in the wall.leave it be or get out the checkbook,

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