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Can I have a slide bar too? Here are some pics...

14 years ago

Can I have slide bar hand-held shower head in addition to a regular shower head too? Does it depend on the valve, like a diverter or something? I really don't know anything about anything, I just have being seeing these on here and think they are a great addition to my single head coming out of the wall...

Here is what we have going on currently, I had to do 3 pics

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MongoCT
14 years ago
You could.

The only thing is that with slide bar showers, the water outlet is usually low on the wall (roughly waist high), where with no plumbing changes, yours will be up high.

With the high outlet, your hose will attach to the outlet up high, then loop down, then back up to the shower head on the bar.

You'd want to get as long of a hose that is practical. I can't think of seeing one longer than 7'. I'd recommend getting a 7' long piece of rope or string, tie or tape one end to the nipple up on the wall, and see how much range you get out of the 7' length.

With a long hose, one other consideration is the low end of the vertical bar. In a worse-case scenario, if the main bather is short and only used the shower as a body wash, meaning the spray head was normally slid down low on the vertical bar, then I wouldn't want the hose to be so long that it came in contact with the floor tile. You shouldn't have that problem with the outlet up so high.

If you go with a vertical bar, I prefer to mount the bar a few inches to the left or right of the water outlet. That allows the long hose to droop in a nice "U"-shape right up and flat against the wall.
jeniferrlynne
Original Author
14 years ago
OK. So if what I understand is correct. I can have one to the right of that main shower head coming out, but it would just have to be placed a little higher than normal slide-bars which are typically placed lower.
I do like vertical, I am 5'6" and my husband is 6' so maybe it wouldn't be such a large deal? Thanks so much for giving me hope! Our shower is almost a square 52" so hopefully roomy and practical enough for this option!
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MongoCT
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I have a retraction to make. I missed the "in addition to" part of your post.

I will say that the hand held showers of today are more than adequate as the only head in the shower. Matter of fact most manufacturers make versions of the same head to either go on a fixed shower arm or to be installed as a hand held.

All that said, there are simple A/B diverters that can go on a shower arm to direct the spray either out of the fixed shower head or out of the handheld unit.

As to the height of the shower bar, it can go wherever you want. The bar is independent of the location of the water supply.

My comments about it being higher than normal were based upon my error regarding you just having a handheld. If you were just to have a handheld in that shower, then your water supply outlet that the hand held hose gets screwed in to would be located up high where the shower arm is normally located.

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