Re: The Showerheads at TakeAShower.com

Computer Guru wrote:
On Mar 6, 3:13 pm, "dadiOH" <dad...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Computer Guru wrote:
Hello Everybody,

I have TERRIBLE water pressure in my house, and i'm more than
willing to invest in a showerhead that actually works.

Everything I've seen says go to takeashower.com - but I have a
problem with that: most of the messages are pure sales pitches on
forums with users with 2 or 3 posts only. Add to that the fact
that they're all more or less the same text, I get suspicious.

Has anyone actually dealt with this company and bought their
products?
I would buy one now, except for the stupid spam they obviously put
out on forums around the web.

Is it worth the 60 bucks?

1. Go get a Speakman
2. Disasemble and drill out (as much as possible) plastic flow
control gizmo

That's as good as you can get.

http://www.speakmancompany.com/products/list/Shower

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dadiOH: The water flow control shouldn't matter for me, should it? I
don't have much water pressure as it is anyway (from the pipe, not
from the head).

Depends on the flow rate you have. You could have low pressure but
big pipe and consequently a good flow rate. If your flow rate (open
discharge) exceeds that of the head then the rate of the head would
increase by modifying the flow control thing in the head.
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1) Does speakman work in low-pressure homes?

Any shower head will. What *is* your water pressure? And why is it
low? City water or well?
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2) Which speakman should I get?

The "Anystream". Some of their cheapos are vacuum plated plastic and
I certainly wouldn't recommend those. The others are solid brass -
either plated or polished - and come with either 6 or 8 nozzles. The
6 nozzle heads run around $70- $110, the 8 nozzle around $180. List.
I have a 6 nozzle one on our guest shower and like it. I'd probably
like the 8 nozzle better but I am frugal :)

I like showers. I'm 73 and have used showers in a lot of places. I
have never found a shower head I like better than Speakman. However,
much depends on what you like...some like those that dribble out water
like a sprinkling can. I don't...I like a head that can be adjusted
from a gush to a needle spray and that's what the lever on the
Anystream head does...it just pushes the jet nozzles in and out...in
and you get a needle spray, out is gush. In days of yore when flow
rates and pressures were higher the needle spray setting could damn
near flay you alive.

The heads do need occasional maintenance, particularly if you have
water that is a bit hard. That is accomplished by removing the screw
that holds on the plate around the nozzles and cleaning off any
accumulated crud. A toothbrush works well.


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