Do they make shower kits with both a regular showerhead AND rain head?
dbrad
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Hansgrohe 10' round rain shower head
Comments (9)WE are getting this exact rainshower. We felt the 12 inch one in the showroom and the pressure is good. Our sales consultant explained that the early rainshowers acted like watering cans - the water just poured out without any kind of pressure. That's why it could take forever to wash shampoo out of one's hair. Newer rainshowers, including this Hansgrohe, have pressure - not like needles, but just a force that will help wash out shampoo. The Hansgrohe uses air to do this. So when I stuck my hand under this one, the water felt good - not sharp but it came out forcefully enough. We went with the 10 inch so that it's large enough to envelop the person while showering. Also, depending on how low you mount the showerhead, the cone of water gets larger. The price difference between the 12 inch and the 10 inch was large. If we need a large cone of water, then we can just mount the 10 inch a bit higher. Does that make sense? If you are in the Chicago area, Banner Plumbing Supply has a bunch of showerheads installed in a large, working shower. If you make an appointment for afterhours, you can come in your bathing suit and test them out! Along with the air tubs, whirlpools, etc... But we didn't do that ;)...See MoreRain showerhead over a tub? Any Moen?
Comments (11)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)...See MoreHow great is a 'rain' showerhead?
Comments (14)Figured I'll post my question here since the thread is related to my issue: I'm in the process of having my bathroom re-done, and didn't think that the rainshowerhead would be an issue. Of course, I didn't check on this forum before purchasing it, and am now thinking that I have made a mistake. I purchased a Price Pfister showerhead from Lowes with a divertor, but am thinking that I will probably need a regular showerhead with the rain feature as an option, since I'm used to being able to remove the showerhead to wash my daughter's hair. The plumber has already used some of the parts from the Price Pfister that I already purchased, so at this point, my only option would be to change out the showerhead. Does anyone have any recommendations for a low-cost showerhead that has a rainhead feature?...See MoreBest Rain Showerhead
Comments (11)this is the one i bought, though it hasn't been used yet. you may want to go to a few showrooms & check out the flows & see how they feel for you. this one i chose because it has a lever that changes the flow from the whole head (softer flow) to the center only, which is a stronger flow. i'd never had one, so i figured this was a good choice so i had flexibility. i did have to be careful, though, while mounting it to be sure i could reach the lever! :) i'm also putting a regular shower head on the wall. i have a diverter to channel to flow to whichever one i want to use hth, lisa Here is a link that might be useful: moen velocity...See Moregoodstuf73
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