Install a shower or just a shower head
l thought you could just attach one of those handheld shower heads to the
tub faucet and just hang a hook above to hold the shower head. Am l crazy?
l could not find anything like it.Do l just have to install a shower.
/> New place just has a bathtub in the bathroom off the Master
Bedroom.
Here is what Don is talking about:
http://homecenter.com/ProductDetails.asp?SID=118857. But they make others
that have a rubber or plastic adapter that you just push up over the spout
on the current existing faucet. I've never tried one of them. Wal Mart,
Target, etc., are good places to look.
Massive Mann has the right idea.
A major concern is the existing walls. If they are just sheet rock the
shower water will ruin the walls in no time.
If you need to protect the walls then it is easy to do the plumbing to
have the shower head like it should be, with piping in the wall. This translates to more time and money but a much better job. GL ☺ ☺
If you want something real quick, google'' portable hand held
shower'' otherwise you need to follow massave manns advice. that is a kit
that has a new tub spout to replace yours. it has a diverter valve in the
spout. Or you can buy a new converter spout. then attach any hand held
shower you wish.
THis is what your looking for.just a little pricey but well
worth it.
http://homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?keyword=4185+converto+shower+&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
Normally, a bath tub has plumbing that runs up through a
diverter valve through a pipe behind the wall, & up to a shower head. The
diverter could also be integrated into the spout, where you pull a lever
on the spout & it blocks the water going to the spout, which then sends it
up the pipe to the shower head.
I suppose you could remove the tub spout & install an adaptor that would let you connect the supply line for a hand-held shower. Then you would just always have the shower & the tub spout would be disabled. Still, to do it properly, you would tear out the wall, & install a proper diverter & shower head supply pipe.
I can imagine custom making something like that, but I don't
know that you can buy it. Normally, there is a plug on the top of your
bathtub faucet, and if you want a shower, you take the plug out and thread
in a length of pipe instead, and the pipe goes up the wall to whatever
height you want the spray head mounted at. It is doable, but it is going
to require tearing into the wall from the opposite side to do it.
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