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Smarty Jones
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Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 358
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 9:38 pm: | 
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Anybody have any experience with Overhead/Rain style shower installations? Are there special showerhead fixtures for these? If so, where are they carried? If not, is it just the way the pipes are brought into the shower (ie run up and over and dropped down through the ceiling)?
Also, anybody have any thoughts on light/fan combos that go immediately over the shower? Does the proximity to the steam/water affect these? We looked at ones at Home Depot, but they only had Flourescent bulb versions, and flourescent light in the shower seems a little to industrial/cold.
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sylvester the investor
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Username: Mummish
Post Number: 114
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 9:56 pm: |
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You probably don't want just a rain shower as you really only get gravity pressure (soft rainlike feel). You are best served with both a rian shower and a standard showerhead. You typically need additional diverter valves. We had our bathroom gutted and redone about 6 months ago. Explored the rain option, but it was going to add another $1,000 on top of the $1,500 we were already spending on plumbing fixtures.
When you are "immeidately over the shower" do you mean in the shower our just outside. You will probably find it hard to find a fan that doesn't have a floresent light in it. I think any fan / light combo comes in floresent. We have a sealed bulb in the shower (60 watt standard bulb) and then a panasonic fan / light just outside the shower. Panasonic makes this fan that is completley silent. NO NOISE. we love it. Also, if buy more fan than you think you need. If you have a 6 x 10 bathroom, get a fan that is made for 80-100sqfeet. The more power, the better it clears away the moisture. |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 361
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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Sylvester, does having the shower water go up and over the top make that much of a difference on the pressure that you need to do this? That wouldn't have occurred to me. I'm not sure what you mean by a rain shower and a standard showerhead, please elaborate.
Regarding the light, yes, I mean right inside the shower/bath. Can you share the brand you have in your shower? |
sylvester the investor
Citizen
Username: Mummish
Post Number: 116
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 4:00 pm: |
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Pre-remodel, our bathtub/shower had an overhead shower. One of the previous owners ran the line up to the top and took added an old spout on it. The pressure from this was fine (old spouts did not have flow restraints). Today though, it appears that most showerheads are made to mount on the way, therefore the arm attachment is notched. Now you could probably figure out a way to mount a standard spout from the ceiling. In terms of "pressure" I was referring to the big rain showers that are meant to be installed from the top ceiling. They are only gravity fed and you do not get the pressure that you get from a standard nozzle. Most people who are installing overhead these days use the rain shower.
You will not be able to put a fan "in the shower" however, you can put a light in there. It will need to be an enclosed lighting unit (looks like your standard recessed lighting, except there is a cap that covers the light). If you go with an overhead shower, it may be difficult to get a light in there as there needs to be a decent amount of space between the water and the lighting unit to be up to code (I don't know the exact distance).
In my bathroom, we went with the panasonic whisper
http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/vModelDetail?displayTab=O&st oreId=15001&catalogId=13401&itemId=64152&catGroupId=25085&modelNo=FV-07VFL1&surf Model=FV-07VFL1&cacheProgram=11002&cachePartner=7000000000000005702
Don't go by the price on this page, I think we paid about $120 or so. This thing is great, so quite you can not even hear it.
As for actual hardware, we used Grohe faucets, and shower hardware. We also upgraded from a standard sized tub to a 5.5foot by 36 inch Kohler soaking tub. It makes all the difference in the world in terms of spaciousness.
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