{"id":639,"date":"2009-02-03T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:33:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T08:33:37","slug":"the-long-awaited-shower-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"The long-awaited shower post."},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a quiet few weeks, blog-wise, and I prefer to think it’s because I had, for however brief a time, a life.<\/p>\n

That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the shower in the main-en-suite. My original design featured two shower heads, a conventional rose at conventional height, and a large overhead rose. All of this controlled by a standard bathtub diverter tap (the type you would normally use for a bathtub \/ shower combination, or a bathtub with a telephone shower).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> This is the best picture I have, I’m afraid — I was photographing the curved wall.<\/p>\n

The large rose was a given — Tanya likes it, a lot. The idea behind the lower rose is that Tanya could use it if she didn’t want to get her hair wet.<\/p>\n

Well, this arrangement worked, but the large rose kept dripping for hours afterwards. And Tanya ended up using the large rose exclusively anyway.<\/p>\n

So yours truly devised Plan B, which is to fit a vacuum breaker, figuring that this would make the upper circuit drain more quickly. I also removed the lower arm and rose, what with it not being used and all.<\/p>\n

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Result : no change, large rose still dripped for hours… I think the water in the rose and pipe didn’t provide enough suction to open the vacuum breaker, maybe.<\/p>\n

A lot of late night insomnia led to Plan C.<\/p>\n

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Spot the difference? Yup, those curved pipes are not for show. The shower now stops dripping almost immediately.<\/p>\n

So, if you want a large overhead shower rose, you also need the pipe with the bend in it. Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a quiet few weeks, blog-wise, and I prefer to think it’s because I had, for however brief a time, a life. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. Anyway, the shower in the main-en-suite. My original design featured two shower heads, a conventional rose at conventional height, and a large overhead rose. All of this controlled by a standard bathtub diverter tap (the type you would normally use for a bathtub \/ shower combination, or a bathtub with a telephone shower). This is the best picture I have, I’m afraid — I was photographing the curved wall....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,89],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-bathroom","tag-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}