I can take a bath but not a shower the pen in the faucet will not stay up?

It depends upon how much work you want to put into this fix. Most showers rely on pressure on a valve to keep the valve closed. If your valve, pin, won't stay up, then it is because of a lack of pressure. Next you need to figure out if you have a leak on the valve or someplace before the valve. It could be as simple as a little dirt around the seal. You'll have to take the fixture off the pipe and see if you can clean it or find some defect. If there is no problem, the consider a leaky pipe. There could also be a hole in the valve. You might have to get a new faucet. Either way, it's not something that can be figured out over the Internet.


Good luck!I can take a bath but not a shower the pen in the faucet will not stay up?
Keasha, it's a very good possibility that the little pin that you're pulling up in the spigot to transfer the water up to the shower is broken off the small paddle shaped end that is supposed to block the flow of water out of the spigot. So when you pull it up, it just falls back down. Most likely what you need is a new spigot, which is readily available at most any decent hardware or home improvement store, Home Depot, Lowe's, Menard's, etc. If I were you I'd take the old one off, (it just unscrews off a pipe), take it with you to the store and get another one just like it. Bring it home and put it back on the threaded pipe and you should be able to take your shower.