Shower installation and repair in Okotoks

Right On! Plumbing & Heating supports shower upgrades, replacements, valve repairs, rough-ins, and leak repairs for Okotoks bathrooms. The work is planned cleanly and quoted before it begins.

Shower installation, valve repair, and rough-ins in Okotoks

A shower that loses temperature when the toilet flushes, drops to a trickle in the morning rush, or scalds you when someone starts the dishwasher is not a quirk you have to live with. Almost always, it is a worn cartridge, an undersized supply line, or a missing pressure-balanced valve. Right On! Plumbing & Heating diagnoses and fixes shower problems for Okotoks homeowners every week, from a quick cartridge swap to a full ensuite renovation rough-in.

The shower problems we see in Okotoks bathrooms

Older Okotoks homes from the 1980s and 1990s often still have two-handle, non-pressure-balanced shower valves. These are the ones that turn dangerous when someone elsewhere in the house draws cold water. Alberta code now requires pressure-balanced or thermostatic mixing valves on showers, and a valve swap is straightforward when the bathroom is being renovated. Hard water in this region kills cartridges on a predictable schedule, with Moen, Delta, and Kohler cartridges all eventually failing the same way: drips, hot-cold drift, and stuck handles.

Shower heads scale up and lose flow. Diverters on tub-shower combos seize. Shower drains in older homes leak quietly into the joist bay below the bathroom and only show up as a stain on the basement ceiling. We pressure test, we inspect, and we tell you which problem is actually the one that needs fixing.

What we install and how

We replace cartridges, shower trims, shower heads, hand-helds, body sprays, diverters, and full shower valves. For new construction and renovations, we rough in the mixing valve, the drop ear elbows, the shower drain, and the supply lines, then come back after tile and finishing for the trim-out and final test. We install Delta, Moen, Kohler, Riobel, and Brizo trim packages, and we install homeowner-supplied trim when that is what you want. Shower pans and bases get plumbed properly with the trap set at the right height, glued or no-hub coupled as the situation calls for, and tested for water-holding before the pan is sealed.

Hard water, scale, and how to make a shower last

Okotoks water leaves visible scale on glass and metal within weeks. Inside a shower valve, that same scale slowly seizes moving parts. A whole-home water softener pays itself back in extended fixture life and easier cleaning. See water treatment for what that looks like, and bathtub installation if your renovation is going the other direction.

Call (403) 800-1970 for Right On! Plumbing & Heating.