Now, taking a shower typically isn’t brain surgery. I thought I’d have this particular area pretty well covered.
But I’m at a new place, and I’m fairly perplexed.
All previous shower/bath combos I’ve seen work on a simple principal: there’s a push toggle on top of the faucet, when pressed down, water bypasses the faucet and goes up to the shower, where it’s merrily sprayed onto the user.
Great.
The new shower has no such thing. There are no push-levers, or whatever the proper term is, anywhere within the whole shower area.
There is, however, a somewhat mysterious drain-plug-thing. It’s a 2-3" thin bar. On one end, it has a plug and a floppy rubber seal thing, and on the other, some threading.
It looks like a drain plug, but I noticed that the bottom of the faucet has a bunch of rings with a circle in the middle, the right size for the threaded end of the drain plug. A little strange, but I got to work on screwing in the drain plug.
It wouldn’t thread into the bottom of the faucet. I tried different angles, twisting both ways, and it would penetrate the plastic-ring-grid thing on the bottom of the faucet, but wouldn’t actually thread into anything.
In order for the seal/plug to work, it would have to penetrate the full 2-3" into the faucet head, and I could barely push it in more than a few millimeters, and it just wasn’t threading in like it looked like it should be.
End result: I don’t know how to operate my own shower.
This building is only a few years old, so perhaps this a new trend in shower technology. Could anyone with a similar setup perhaps tell me what I’m doing wrong?