The most important thing you want to focus on when looking at fixtures is the quality of what goes behind the wall, because that's going to be the hardest to fix if there's ever a problem. Hansgrohe is an expensive fixture and in my opinion there are others out there that are just as good. We went with Moen and have been very happy. I wouldn't buy any faucet fixtures from Home Depot or Lowes. Word has it that the manufacturers substitute some of the inner metal parts with plastic so they can sell them cheaper at the big box stores. We bought ours from faucetdepot.com and faucetsdirect.com both are reputable and provide great service.

Well you know the old saying, they don't make things the way they used to and this is ever so true with plumbing. I don't really have an answer for you, but would go with what ever your plumber suggests.

Hi Lukkiirish,

May I ask which Moen fixtures you used? For valves for "pretty" parts as heads and trims? Did you installed recently or some time before? Thanks a lot!

lizzy88 writes: "Does anyone use Moen fixtures? It's cheaper than the Grohe or Hansgrohe, but how's the quality?"

Most makers make several lines of fixtures, with different levels of quality. In some cases, the lines are differentiated by brand name (the way that in the car business Lexus and Scion, both made by Toyota, are differentiated from Toyota and marketed through separate channels); for instance, Delta and Hansgrohe are part of the same corporate group, but are marketed to different customers.

In the case of Moen, the Moen-branded units that you find in the blister packaging hanging from a shelf hook at Target are different from -- different in quality from -- the higher end Moen-branded units that you are likely to find only at a plumbing specialty store. (And probably are manufactured on a different continent.)

When we remodeled our shower nearly nine years ago, we installed a Hansgrohe Axor Steel valve, volume control, mixer, and handle, and are very happy with that choice, but we saw no reason for our choice of mixer/handle to limit the choice of showerhead that attaches (in our case, via an articulated arm) to the pipe coming out of the wall above our heads. A showerhead does not look anything like a mixer handle, so a Hansgroher Axor Steel showerhead would not "match" the mixer handle any more than any other brushed steel/brushed nickel showerhead fixture would. It would take some pretty amazing peripheral vision to look at the mixer handle and the showerhead at the same time to determine if the exact color tone of the one matches the exact color tone of the other. Accordingly, we selected the showerhead with an eye more to function than to styling

In the nearly nine years since we installed the Hansgrohe mixer, we have used three different showerheads in that shower: originally, an Australian "Down Under Wonder Shower" showerhead, then for a while a Hansgrohe handset showerhead, and now our present one, a Moen Velocity 6320bn -- the "bn" stands for brushed nickel which unfortunately commands a substantial price premium over the plain 6320 polished chrome model. There is no way that anyone could rationally argue that the styling of our Moen showerhead is less of a "match" for the styling of our Hansgrohe mixer than a Hansgrohe showerhead would be.

The Moen Velocity is the best showerhead that we ever have used in any setting, home or away from home; it is simply wonderful. We have slightly lower than average water pressure in our shower, but the Velocity lives up to its moniker and gives us more "zip" in the water stream than we have achieved with either of the other two shower heads. I have provided a link to the Amazon listing below, but with a little shopping, you might be able to find a better price.

One other point: Moen customer service is great; Moen stands behind its products

Here is a link that might be useful: Moen 6320bn (Amazon listing)

Can't comment on Moen, but can say that we used rain showerheads (Hansgrohe Air) over a tub (in two bathrooms) and they look great--not overkill at all. It helps that it is not an over-sized showerhead (5").

They took a little getting used to; the guest bathroom showerhead is extremely powerful so by comparison, the rain showerhead didn't feel forceful enough at first. Within a week or so though, we got used to them and now really like them.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hansgrohe showerhead

We used the Moen Kingsley collection. I bought all them through either Faucet Depot or Faucetdirect, I don't recall which. I believe it's more traditional than what you're probably looking for but here's the link to the shower head and hand held we bought. We have well water and I was extremely happy to find that these really maximized the weaker water pressure. If you're seriously interested in a rain shower head, that is one thing you need to consider because from what I read you won't get strong pressure with a rain shower head.

http://www.faucetdirect.com/moen-t2112-single-handle-posi-temp-pressure-balanced-shower-only-trim-with-single-function-showerhead-from-the-kingsley/p1030336

http://www.faucetdirect.com/moen-3867-four-function-hand-shower-with-hose-and-slide-bar-from-the-icon-collection/p503498

I can't find the diverter we got, but everything in our shower is Moen including the valves, which our plumber said were good. It's been installed for 1.5 years now and we've not had any problems with any of it.

The one thing that really sold me is that they have a good customer support team and they honor their lifetime full product warranties on anything they sell. In other words, you don't have to pull teeth to get what you need.

I should add that because our budget was tight, I had to do a lot of research to get the best bang for our buck and we don't feel like we compromised at all with a Moen product.

Hi, I was not able to get on the forum for a few days. Thanks for everyone's suggestion. I would look into each of them!

Delta has some really nice fixtures(not sold at HD and Lowes) We are putting Delta Vero in our new master bath. It has a really high end modern look but more expensive than what the box stores sell. You should check out some fixture showrooms to really tell.

This is my roman tub filler with handheld

Here is a link that might be useful: Delta fixures

That looks beautiful! I would take a look. Thanks!

bh401 I just purchased the Vero collection in the 17 series. Have not put it in yet, were under construction. What has been your experience with it? TIA