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It's All Falling Apart!...Grohe Sliding Shower Head Holder Repair

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This video demonstrates how to repair a loose Grohe sliding shower head holder. The shower head is removed, and the cover of the shower head holder is taken off to reveal the screw. Using a Phillips head screwdriver, the screw is removed, and the holder and washers are taken off. The screw thread is cleaned, and threadlocker is applied. The washers and holder are put back on, the screw is tightened, and the cover is clipped back in place. Finally, the shower head is reinstalled and tested.

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so if you look right here this shower head should connect right there but it's broken off and this one right here actually doesn't even stay up anymore hey folks that fix a guy here and my friend has had such a bad experience with contractors when he asked for my help I couldn't say no I stayed with him whenever I first came up here to Washington and I just kind of stayed in touch ever since helping him out here and there and this is crazy so he has all these awesome growey fixtures that got installed in his bathtub well everything is loose and falling apart you've seen me fix stuff in the other bathroom and now I'm in this one so to fix the one shower bar we're gonna have to put all this stuff back together we're gonna have to do a little deconstruction so I can figure out how all these washers right here go together and put this back in so come along let's get to fixing [Music] all right so we gotta get the shower head out of here let's just set this over here get that out of my way so first thing we're gonna have to do is pop this little bad boy off what we want to do is you want to find this little tab right here you're able to lift that up a little bit and slide this whole thing out so it's got two little divots in there that actually hook that up should be no problem so with this there's a Phillips head right inside there foreign take that and just pop that right out all right that's going to slide off this is what we're looking for now we can take a look at this we zoom up in here we have one flat washer it's kind of beveled to the outside let's just keep that like that regular flat and then the inside geared and the outside geared okay so we'll just put all that back there not mess with that let's get something to dry the inside of that thread out because this is actually a little wet and get this right off I'll be using some Loctite blue this is removable thread Locker all right and we'll just put a little dab on that all right so there's two little Notch holes for this and this right here right the one on the bottom is the way we had it so it's actually going to be right here that's all back together just hold that right there in place screwdriver oh yeah that's gonna end up being way better this only goes in one way because it's kind of cone shaped right and then it's going to just click in place and you pop it out the same exact way and so you can take this and it just Clips right in there and now we're back and this is actually a lot tighter I don't think it's going to come out anymore and you can loosen it up from the other side to move this right this little bar right here allows you to move that other side this way and it should be good but this right here now so that Now is awesome it is super tight much better than what it was and now we know how to put that one together outside gear washer inside gear washer flatter washer it's not super flat but flatter and then this one is a little bit more beveled and that is going to go to the outside but so this actually just fell off right like this and it's crazy like wouldn't that suck all right so then if you didn't have a screwdriver to do this you can just grab it with your fingernail too and pop that out and then just get that out and now you've got access to that screw Take A little dab of them Loctite here and now this is really tight as well and we're able to take that pop that back on there and we are hooked up okay now that can stay right where it needs to stay as well so good to rock and roll all right and so we got to help somebody out and help me out a long time ago like these little simple things if you didn't know how to do them they could be a little bit daunting but don't be afraid to tackle it and I really hope this helps somebody I really hope you folks are enjoying the videos please subscribe click that like button follow us over on Facebook you know we're just trying to help or any which way we can and it's always nice to help somebody that's helped you out thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon

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