Rainhead. The term "rainhead" has sort of been corrupted over the years. You really need to feel the output yourself and figure out what type you prefer. In my own shower I wanted a traditional rain head. Simple water droplets, so to speak. Mine is a 12" head, and I do consider that to be the smallest size for a decent rain shower, and without a doubt, that is my personal opinion. You want the head away from the wall, so if you have a large rainhead, consider a bracketed or support arm of some sort, the added support can come from the wall or from the ceiling. Something along the lines of this: For your hand shower, have a hose long enough so you can spray down the corners of your shower. Body sprays. The same. Good showrooms have spray displays where you can feel the spray of water. Once upon a time I was intrigued by body sprays, Then I tried them and thought them to be the silliest thing ever. Some folk put in two heads, stacked vertically, one one wall. It's a little more common to want four body heads. Usually on two opposing walls, stacked vertically. You don't want them spraying towards the door. Usually chest and waist height, so figure that out when plumbing. You will have to figure out flow and hot water supply issues, from your water heater to the shower drain. Shower supply valves allow a certain amount of "pass through". You need to make sure each valve can actually supply the water needed to feed the heads that you want it to supply, or you could end up with insufficient flow. With body sprays, I recommend a "loop" supply to feed them, so the last head has pretty much the same flow as the first head. For your shower drain, it needs to be sized to the number of heads you have in the shower. Doesn't matter if only a few of them can or will be on at one time. It's a simple counting of the shower heads. A 2" drain can accomodate a shower with up to three heads. With four or more heads, plan on two 2" drains or a single 3" drain. If your plumber says you don't need to upsize to a 3" drain with four or more heads, he's not complying with code. If you want a "car wash" shower with five or six heads going at once? Your half inch pipe may not be adequate. Sure, with adequate feed pressure behind it it might be able to feed all those heads. But high water velocities through the tubing can actually erode copper from the tubing, potentially resulting in leaks. It's not just a matter of the 1/2" tubing being able to supply the needed water volume. You can crank up the water pressure and get volume. But cranking up the pressure to get the volume increases the water's velocity through the tubing, and again, too high of a "feet per minute" flow through the tubing can actually erode the tubing away. So do be wary if your "contractor" tries to soft talk away all of your concerns. Half-inch supply tubing can work. But it should work because your shower was designed to work with 1/2" tubing, not because, as your contractor told you, "everybody else is doing it". You can help yourself by drawing out a diagram of your shower. Doesn't have to be fancy. Each body spray and each shower head will have a GPM rating. Same with each valve. Make sure the valves and/or diverters that feed those heads can pass through the needed volume of water. Very basic numbers here, but 1/2" can comfortably flow about 5gpm. For hot and cold, that's 10gpm combined. For a comfortable temp out of the shower valve, that gets derated to about 7.5gpm of shower-temperature water. If your body sprays are 1.8GPM, four sprays is 7.2gpm for the body spray set only. You can figure different GPM combinations. Then figure that GPM out of your water heater to see how long your heater can maintain shower temperature. Oh lord. I need coffee...good luck! Edit: I never proof read this after posting it. Egads. Edited to clean up the weird formatting too. This post was edited by mongoct on Tue, Oct 21, 14 at 17:47

I forgot to add lights. It looks like a Sylvan pool. That would lead me to believe you have American Products lights. American Products is now part of Pentair. That means Intellibrite LED lights will fit your niches. I didn't see the deck boxes in your pictures so I can't say how long the cord needs to be. The choices are 30, 50, 100 and 150 feet long. Measure the distance from the deck box to the pool edge near the light niche. Add 10' to allow for the rise from the inside of the pool to the deck boxes and service slack. A 31' total run would need a 50' equipped light fixture. The excess will get cut off. Don't get one that's too short because extending the cord would not pass an inspection and could be hazardous.

I just went through all of this. Here are my findings......... nobody at the HUGE appliance business i purchased my combo fridge/freezer knows anything about this issue except: "putting a combo fridge/freezer in a garage won't work - unless the garage is heated, because they're not designed to be in a cold garage" is all they could offer. they don't know "why" only that they won't work properly. So I'm a degreed Control System Engineer for 35 years and very anal with getting things to work - so I wanted to get to the bottom of this. The problem with my combo fridge freezer is that the thermostat is located only in the refrigerator. No thermostat in the freezer. So when i put the combo fridge freezer in my cold garage (garage temp got down into the 30's at times) the thermostat in the fridge was satisfied and never turned on the compressor. Consequently the freezer wasn't cold enough. Solution ? I put a thermostat in the freezer and wired it in parallel to the refrigerator thermostat so that if either thermostat called for cooling - the compressor would run. fridge thermostat setpoint = 35 deg freezer thermostat setpoint = 0 deg. it's been about a week now and all is working well. everything in freezer is frozen and nothing in fridge is frozen. I am fortunate to be handy and know electrical systems and wiring - so i was able to do this myself. If you can't do this yourself or can't find someone who can, try looking for a fridge/freezer combo that has independent thermostats (one in fridge and one in freezer) and try that. I found it interesting that when I called this HUGE appliance store that i bought my unit from, and talked to people in customer service, sales and service - that nobody knew why my unit did not work properly in a cold garage..........all they could say is "they are not designed for that" (idiots...) One more thing - if you see the "heating element" accessory offered as a "quick fix" for this situation, know this...............all that does is heat up the thermostat in the refrigerator to make the compressor run more to keep the freezer frozen. Yes this works but your electric bill may be higher because it may be causing your compressor to run when it doesn't need to. It's basically a band aid fix. If you have no choice - maybe try that accessory. Better than nothing i suppose. reach me at lwallace@pcsoc.com if you need more help.

Keep in mind that aging in place is one of my goals: Oversized shower large enough for help getting in/out, if necessary. One hand held shower mounted high enough to act as primary shower/ on a slide bar so it can be used from the stool. Double showers? Why? If two of you are in the shower, the goal usually isn't washing your hair! Moveable teak stool that can be placed where we please -- or replaced with a more study handicapped shower chair someday in the future, if necessary. No barrier or step-over of any type, but a door to hold in warmth. Pony walls rather than glass all the way up (because glass can't support a grab bar). No wider than 3 1/2' because wider than that, I couldn't effectively reach grab bars on both sides at once. Yes, the Goldilocks analogy works -- not too big, not too small. Large niche for storage hidden in pony wall (so not visible to the whole room). Small, "grippy" tile on the floor -- absolutely not a slippery shower pan. Good light and ventilation in the shower. Convenient place to hang towel -- don't say, "Big deal" -- I'm in a hotel right now with a fabulous bath ... And no place to hang a shower towel in reach of the shower door. Turbo body dryer -- like a giant hair dryer, but it's for the body. It's designed for handicapped people, but I think it'd be a nice luxury. Nice tile over everything.