Shower Head Help!
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Comments (3)The ThermoBalance by Hansgrohe does have the voume and thermostat on one control. There are several different ones depending on how many fixtures you want to be able to operate with it. Make sure you get the right one for your application. By the way, Grohe does make a similar valve with the volume and thermostat on the one control. Look at the Grohmix integrated thermostat valve 34 436. I have used both. I think that Grohe is a little nicer but is also more expensive. I put Hansgrohe in the kids' baths and will put Grohe in the master....See MoreThinking of going with a Mini tank ???
Comments (2)There are no other issues other then it would be nice to have a shower that we can count on being at least warm or even hot. If it all amounts to a 2 minute shower with a water saver shower head then I will think about upping the tank size. My request was to get an opinion from you guys if this is a viable solution for both hot water and costs. Furance is in the basement and the shower is on the second floor. The furnace is a tank-less unit with just a coil, we have no other tank for producing hot water. Don't want to install a hot water tank in the basement and have it just sit there burning up $$$$. Thanks Big Al...See MoreShower Head Configuration Help
Comments (18)I've showered once in my mom's shower which diverts between a fixed head (hansgrohe raindance S 150) and the matching S 150 handshower on a slidebar w/63" hose. Diverting between the two takes a split second, much less than a second actually, and is almost perfectly seamless and I don't feel like I ever go without water spray while switching. But then again, I'm just standing in one place since both the fixed head and handshower are close together. (FWIW, I'm used to perfectly seamless in the basement shower I use which just has a cheap handheld waterpik as the only showerhead and no diverter of course.) However, I did experience a slight issue with water temp when diverting between the two. Even though I never touched the temperature dial and it's thermostatic, when diverting from one to the other, the first "shot" of water that would come out would be a bit lukewarm. But immediately it would go back up to the right temperature. But then I would switch back to the other head and get a very brief "shot" of lukewarm water there and so forth. I think maybe it's because both the fixed head and handshower have big heads that mix the water with air and perhaps store some residual water in them when I stop one and switch to the other. So when I divert back, that little bit of residual water has "cooled" to lukewarm/warm (vs hot) in the head and gets pushed out first? Also, maybe some water "cools" to lukewarm/warm in the hose that connects to the handshower. This is what me (non-plumber, non-expert) has hypothesized. If it was a cold shot of water, it would have bothered me, but split second of lukewarm/warm is not so jarring. That said, my mom and I both like her diverter set up so much that we're going to do a similar hansgrohe diverter setup in another bathroom in the house. That one will divert between tub, fixed head, and handshower though. And I may go with a speakman showerhead for the fixed head....See MoreShower Head Configuration Help Please
Comments (0)I am in California which does not permit multiple water sources in a shower at the same time. This means that if I want to use a hand shower I would have to physically turn it on and off - i.e. divert water from the regular shower head to the hand held shower head. I have changed my old tub/shower combo into a larger shower in the master bath with a bench at the short end opposite the short end holding the shower head. I had intended to put a hand held shower in the middle of the long wall so that I would have access to the hand held shower while both standing or when using the bench. I had not envisioned a scenario where I would have to stop the flow of water from the shower head above my head, turn a valve and then use the hand held shower - and reverse process if I wanted to stand under the shower head again. This seems completely dysfunctional in terms of how I shower (or showered) with my old hand held shower head that I lifted from its bracket when I wanted hand held functionality and reattached seamlessly when I wanted water to stand under - i.e. when washing hair I swap between hand held and standing under at various points. So I am now thinking that functionally the way to handle it is to have some kind of slide bar shower at the short end which functions seamlessly as both a regular and hand held shower and a SEPARATE Hand held only shower in the middle for which I would have to turn off the main shower head. I would utilize this hand held only functionality when I was doing stuff at the bench end. Has anyone else had to deal with this issue - if so, what did you do? It seems like a pretty common issue - at least in California. It seems as though other people would want dual functionality in a shower but perhaps I am missing something as physically having to turn a faucet to utilize the different functionalities seems awkward and dysfunctional as one would be left without any water at all while the water diverted. I need oil rubbed bronze finishes if that enters into the equation of a solution....See MoreLT
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