Pfister 00131XA Multi-Handle Tub & Shower Rough-In Valve, 3-Hole Installation, 1/2-Inch Union Inlets, 1/2-Inch I.P. Outlets, Union Nuts Included, Unfinished

This is a great product. I bought 2 to replace shower controls in a 45 year old mobile home. BUT, you need to know all the following:- The hot and cold control valves are ceramic valves that do not use traditional valve seats (small conical brass part that can be screwed into the mixer body). In fact, the body does not have a threaded receiver for a valve seat. Instead it has a flat, smooth surface for the ceramic control valve to seat on - which means it will only work with the ceramic control valves that come with it.- There is not a complete trim kit that fits this mixer valve. Even the very few Pfister says will work, won’t. That is because every complete trim kit is designed to fit the valves included in the kit - and none of the kits out there (and I looked at a bazillion of them) include ceramic control valves. They ALL include traditional valves with screw in valve seats. You can buy replacement ceramic valves by themselves but not in a trim kit.- To complete the trimming on this, you must buy flange/tube kits separately from the handles. There are only a few different flange/tube kits that fit the included ceramic control valves. The Danco 10307 (see pic) is really cheap, looks great, and fits the ceramic control valves perfectly. Those come in chrome or brushed nickel. You can buy the flanges separately from the tubes (as suggested in another review) but you will pay a LOT more.- Once you have flanges and tubes covering the valves, you have to find handles with 12 notches to fit the end of the control valves. They are fairly common but can be kinda expensive. I bought a complete trim kit (control valves, flanges, tubes, and handles) for less than three separate handles from the big box store. I tossed the valves, flanges, & tubes and kept the handles. Search for “Verve handles” and there are some reasonable options available.Do not try to use a traditional control valve from a complete kit in this mixer. While they appear to fit without using the conical seat, they do not seat well on the flat surface in the body - and will leak. I found a review where someone did that and complained that it leaked.Hopefully this information will help you move forward. I guess I need to qualify my “everything you need to know” statement: “Everything you need to know for Verve or verve-like trim” would be more accurate. I can’t really speak to other types of handles. I don’t know why they make it so difficult to get trim that fits this body - but who knows why people do stupid things anyway.

Great value and quality

So far it's a quality product, and Pfister will replace valves for the life of the item. A lot of negative reviews mentioning that "it's just the valve", but... um, yeah people, it's just the valve, it will accept different sorts of trim which you purchase separately. It's the valve body and the three valves, and install hardware for the supply lines - that's it.A note on installing these - you have the options for supply piping of 1/2" thread, or 1/2" copper sweat. The instructions say "iron pipe" for the threaded connection, but that's going to end up giving you rust in the water. But if you sweat copper for these, it's a difficult joint and any drips of solder on the surface of the fitting will cause leaks. So your options would be 1/2" brass pipe nipples (expensive), or 1/2" copper threaded fitting, and sweat to copper pipe, then screw into the valve body. That's really the way to go IMO, it's a less picky sweat job, and some tape + dope on the threads and you'll get a good, leak-free seal. You can sweat a PEX fitting to the other end of that supply pipe if your home uses PEX.I'd give this 5 stars but it seems a little pricey for what it is, a mid-grade builder's valve.

Fit our setup that used old 1940 shower valve that was wearing out. Perfect fit. Works great. Plumber installed.

Did not come with knobs .. took awhile to find ones that would fit.. since there are not like others.. Menards.. fyi

I purchased two of these valves to replace 40+ year old valve, when we had our house re-piped with PEX. The original galvanized pipes were corroded and we had a major water leak when the hot water cut-off valve to our washing machine, rusted off.In addition to getting new shower valve systems for our two bathrooms, I wanted to get valves which were easy to turn on and off. I have arthritis in my hands, which made turning the water on and off, difficult. My son has a handicap, which limited his ability to completely turn off the water on our old valves. The new Pfister valves with Pfister 01-81BC Three-Handle Tub and Shower Combo, Chrome works great. The full rotation of the hot and cold water handles only takes about 90-degree turns to go from Off to full ON.

Worked as expected for around 6 months but now when switching to the shower head, the majority of the water dumps out the tub spout.The valve this replaced one that lasted over 15 years so I’m going with another brand to fix this one.

Got this to replace an old Price/Pfister Bathtub fill faucet. Was exactly what I needed. Removed old valve and fittings from the inlet pipes and put the pipe fittings right on. Then installed the 3 way valve. Only trouble I had was getting it tight enough so it quit leaking. But was able to.Some people were having difficulties finding the Sleeve to fit. I have found Locally Thrifco products that works. The Escutcheon Sleeve number is 819-T This is the sleeve that screws onto the valve body. It is long, so it has to be able to screw all the way till it hits the valve body. (Through the wall) You can see how far it sticks out in the picture. The other piece covers the hole in the wall. Part # 829-T 1 1/4 Tube Escutcheon. (The bigger chrome round thingy) These products cost me a bit less then what's on here.I did also have to replace my handles. Mine were to long after the new Tube Escutcheon were in place. Was able to find some Price handles that fit the splines.Installed a couple of weeks ago and left open for a week to checks for leaks. None happened, so closed up the wall.One problem I do see is replacement of the valves. These are different than any I've seen. They do Not have a seat, just a plastic insert that uncovers the water inlet hole to allow flow. We will have to see how long that lasts.