This was going to be a poll, but there are so many varieties I figure it is easier just to ask without a poll attached.
We have two showers in the house - in our master bathroom shower we have one of those “rain shower heads” that are the size of a small pancake and water comes down like a strong rain. I like it as you really feel like you are standing in a strong rain storm and and feels quite nice.
In the guest bathroom, we have the standard shower head, but it does have a fairly decent strength. It could have been placed a tad higher, as it only comes to about my neck and I have to bend down to get my hair/head wet, but not bad.
Growing up, my grandmother had a shower head that was amazing - I don’t know if it was just the pressure but that thing could rip the pelt off a bear! It hurt a bit when you took a shower, but also felt great.
If I ever had the money, I would love to install one of those showers with nozzles everywhere so it is like standing in a car wash.
So what nozzle(s) do you have in your shower(s) at home?
We have Giessdorf shower heads which can give a powerful spray with modest water pressure. I like them so much that when we moved last year I took the Giessdorf shower heads with us and replaced them with home depot builder specials.
I went for the lowest flow one I could reasonably find - I believe I have a 1.5gpm similar to this one - http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Saver-Showerhead-1-5-GPM/dp/B000H5YCS4
I don’t know if that is exactly it - the one I have has one shaped nozzle hole in it that doesn’t clog, instead of 20 million little holes that fill up with crud.
I have one like this with the many holes. Unmodified the showerhead produced water droplets that were just too small and I presume due to evaporation and the small volume of the droplets actually had a noticeable temperature difference between the top and bottom of the shower.
After modification it had a larger flow rate, no noticeable temperature difference and feels great.
I have a bog-standard showerhead. It doesn’t move around very well but well enough to point it away from me when I need to. It’s the one that was here when I moved in 6 years ago.
Being somewhat taller than standard, I long ago replaced the standard shower head that came with the house with a hand shower. My wife can leave it hooked in place of the shower head (it’s the right height for her), and I can detach it and hold it high enough for me.
Actually, that’s bullshit - I just prefer a hand shower.
Until a few weeks ago, I had one of those hand-removable shower heads in my downstairs guest bathroom. Right now, the tub is removed, and a shower stall will magically appear sometime. I haven’t decided what type of shower head yet.
For my master bath, I currently have a massage head on a long handle - the shower is somewhat open, and you stand a few feet back in the ‘private’ part of the shower stall. I’m ripping this apart too, and need to decide what to put in. I might add extra shower heads or something here.
The upstairs guest bath is a tub/shower, and has a slightly upgraded but very standard shower head. I might change that into a hand-removable shower head, since it’ll be the only tub available, and I occasionally have friends who stay with me with their young kids.
-D/a
We have one hand-held shower head in the upstairs tub/shower (as is required for dog bathing), and one plain old generic shower head in the plain old generic basement shower. When we finally remodel the upstairs bath we’ll ditch the tub and just put in a walk-in shower, and then we might get one of those rain showerheads if we can afford it. By then all the big dogs will be gone and we can bathe the little ones in the sink.
We were given a water-conserving hand shower for our new house and I love it! I would never have bought a hand shower myself. It is a little higher than the spout, so that’s great for my husband, who’s fairly tall. And it really helps when I rinse the tub.
I got one of those S-shaped extenders that raises the shower head by about 15 inches. I hated having to bend to get my head under the shower. I also put on one of those scissor-hinged extenders, so that the shower head is a couple of feet away from the wall. I hated having to stand right against the wall to get my head under the shower.
We have a removable shower head which has a lot of recreational, non-cleanliness-related potential. Unfortunately, it’s older than Methuselah and barely has a trickle of pressure behind it (I suspect build up in the hose from very hard water, because the native water pressure is just fine). It takes FOREVER to take a shower. I really wish the homeowner would replace the damn thing, they’re not that expensive. It’s just a plastic number that screws on over the pipe.
My mom’s place has great water pressure, it’s an enormous deluge of water and it comes out hard and fast. Luvit!
Downstairs in the master bath is some kind of multi-select handheld shower head. Upstairs, that’s where the awesome is. My sweetpea wanted a rainfall shower head for Christmas and showed me some cheesy three inch in diameter one online because it was cheap. Well, that’s not how I shop. I shop to win, as in one time at Bath & Body Works people were wondering if the store was going to end up owing me money after my well thought out use of coupons and other discounts. Obviously a dinky little pressure-less shower head that would break in 5 seconds wouldn’t do!
So after much searching I found a significantly larger rainfall shower head that lights up, with the color depending on the temperature. My grandmother shares the bathroom and she actually showers sans overhead lights because the shower light is just so neat-o.
We’d all like one of those walk in showers with jets everywhere, but one awesome step at a time.
PandaBear77, how well do the LED lights work in PandaKid’s shower?
Fairly well. Her shower doesn’t get as hot as ours does, for some reason. It always goes green then blue and once in a while it’ll go red, but usually it’s in the blue zone. I’ve never seen it go flashflashflash