Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: 2 shower heads 6Jun 06, 2011 9:17 am We have two flickmixers and it doesn't really affect the other persons temperature when the other is turned on. I actually prefer to have two seperate ones, because my husband likes his water quite cool, while I like mine quite hot, so it works well to be able to adjust them separate. Re: 2 shower heads 7Jun 07, 2011 8:21 am dbp1078 I wouldnt have thought that this would be a major problem although have had no help at all from local plumbing suppliers. Anything that doesn't get done every day is difficult to get done unfortunately dbp1078 Not only is this a pain in the butt, but also wastes water!! I doubt you'd use much more water this way dbp1078 What I was hoping for was to be able to purchase one shower head that had an on/off valve so that it can be just turned on and off as required You know that this is what a tap does, right? As far as I'm aware no such unit exists. I think you might also find that each shower head must have it own taps to control heat. Something to do with the rules of tempering valves and marking of hot and cold taps. Re: 2 shower heads 8Jun 07, 2011 8:58 pm Really?? I always wondered what purpose taps served. Below is exactly what I was after. http://lifehacker.com/400535/install-a- ... toff-valve I took my laptop into Robert Fergusons plumbing and electrical with this web page and they grabbed me one straight off the shelf. They are called 1/2 inch inline ball valves. Problem solved and I have exactly what I want!!! Re: 2 shower heads 9Jun 08, 2011 8:50 am It was a cheap shot. I just thought it would be easy enough to have a single tap at the base of the shower head to stop flow. Again, I thought you had to have separate taps for each outlet because of building regs. Glad to hear you got what you were looking for. Re: 2 shower heads 10Jun 08, 2011 11:07 pm Depends on how fancy you want to get; the Germans have thermostatic mixers, and have shut-off for the showers. Saw quite a few different one on the Hans Grohe site. Our solution to temperature variation was to have a continuous flow gas hot water service with a temperature controller; just dial the temperature in, and you're done. Re: 2 shower heads 11Jun 27, 2011 9:02 pm When you order your shower with two shower-heads does the plumber "automatically" put larger diameter pipes into the bathroom to feed the two showers at once ? As much as Mrs P_D and I like the idea, as the OP said, we're concerned about running out of pressure / flow and temperature. Thanks, P_D . Block settled 07 June 2011 Our little piece of the Interwebs on HomeOne....... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=48577&start=0 Re: 2 shower heads 12Jun 28, 2011 11:05 am Doh, bit late to the ball game. If you want to spend about 9k, then the kohler thermastatic mixer and control pannel would probably do what you want to do (and more) though if you were spending that kind of money, id go the whole kit and kaboodle and get the wall/ceiling jets from the DTV package too.... *drool* (not into the light show and aromatherapy myself) http://au.kohler.com/products/showering-technology.aspx our budget only went as far as the water tile shower head Re: 2 shower heads 13Jun 28, 2011 1:11 pm I'm a bit late too but here goes........ In our old house we had an instant heat hot water service with controllers to set the temp that you want. If you were in the shower and someone elsewhere in the house turned on a hot tap the pressure dropped. If they turned on a cold tap there was no difference in the shower. This was because you only needed to turn on the hot tap in the shower. No fiddling around with mixing hot and cold water to get the right temperature. I'll look into different shower heads and ask the plumber about some engineering and see what he says. Thanks 2 9563 Hi All, about to commence a bathroom renovation and need some advice on subfloor works. Current subfloor is hardwood T&G floorboards on 90x45 joists, but intention is to… 0 5840 Ask yourself if the insurance company will be aware of the Reno. 4 7370 |