KOHLER 8304-US-NA Rite-Temp Pressure-Balancing Valve Body and Cartridge Kit with Service Stops and PEX Expansion Connections

good condition at great price

Well made and easy to install

In the throes of a bathroom remodel … contractor advised that this important piece was missing.Delivered in 12 hours.Saved the project.

How can you go wrong with a Kohler product? We recently remodeled our shower. Our contractor told us this was an excellent choice of shower valve. Functions as advertised.

The guy who wrote the review of the wrong dimensions listed on the installation instructions saved my bacon! The hole for the valve should be 3” and the circle for the mounting holes should be 3-1/2”!!! I likely wouldn’t have measured the valve body before installation and simply would have followed the instructions like he did. For those of you who are visual learners, the best video I found on YouTube is titled “Thin Wall Installation - Rite - Temp - The Next Generation in Shower Valving”. The installation instructions bounced around a bit, so the video helped solidify things. Same concept would apply for a “thick wall” installation, but you could drill a 5” hole and be done with it.

I recently remodeled several bathrooms and bought two of these cartridges. The price was right and they seem to work fine. No more scalding when someone flushes the toilet or the dish washer turns on!

Ordered this valve at a reduced price because it was "cosmetically" damaged, supposedly perfectly functional with just minor scratches which would be fine for something that spends its life inside a wall - but - It was mailed just loose in it's box, no padding, in a plastic bag and was VERY beat up when it got here. If we had needed the plastic template to work at all (we didn't, but someone else might) we'd have been out of luck as it was smashed around, badly split and had pieces broken off. As it was, the parts that were undamaged worked fine for us, and the savings were good, but considering the poor packaging, it could've easily been more broken and not worked at all. If you can't afford to waste time if the valve is busted up when it gets to you and might not work, buy new.

Used this to replace a 30 year old Kohler faucet on which the plastic stem broke - I suspect due to misuse by a houseguest. Nobody likes replacing shower valves, but this one went in as expected. In operation it is smooth to adjust, turns off solidly, and fit well with the Devonshire Rite-Temp Shower Valve Trim with Lever Handle.

There are some great videos on the Internet describing the step-by-step process for installing this valve and the instructions worked great! Not terribly complicated to install, in my opinion.

Well, our old bath taps let us take hot water straight from the HW tank at full tank temperature. We had the tank set to 49degsC, which gave a nice full bath of hot water. This new valve, even with the so called max temp stop removed and the knob turned fully clockwise is only letting water into the bath at 45degs, way to cold for a luxurious soak. After a few minutes I have to get out, the bath is too cold! I don't know if this is a faulty valve, or if that is a factory preset max, but since we haven't yet tiled the wall, out it comes and in the bin it goes! Grump! AVOID!!!

WHAT THE ACTUAL...?! I had Kohler fixtures in my last place and although I loved the look, I was never particularly impressed with the quality. Against my better judgement, I bought the same again and installed them in my new bathroom. Literally the first day this POS valve was installed, it broke. My contractor was still at my house, fiddled with it a bit a got it working again. Then tonight - while sick, exhausted, and looking after a new baby - it broke at midnight. I took it apart and found the problem - the metal piece that inserts into the handle is literally sheared in two. HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN? And naturally, the 30-day window to exchange has passed, because there's a pandemic and I had to wait 2 months to get the supplies I needed to install the rest of the shower. Kohler has basically ruined my life, and I know better than to even bother trying to deal with them. Absolute garbage.