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1freespirit (HI)
Hello, I am new to this board as you can tell this is my first post. We are in the process of building a walk in shower..
The shower will not be all that large will be 30" wide by about 5.2 inches long with an angled bench seat. Question I have is can one insert a small shower arm where the tub spout would go so we could have a hand held shower there? The reason I ask is becuase I want the hand held low enough and long enough to reach the bench seat should someone want to use for instance to shave legs when seating down. I really do not want to go with the typical double shower head with hand held if I can advoid it.
I realize that I woudl have to have a divertor installed in the lower spout where the tub spout would go. Are there any such diverters like this maybe to be used with a like a small shower arm or something simular?
Thank you but I have searched the internet and cannot come up with a direct answer but I woudl think it would not be that difficult. Basically I want to take a tub/shower valve and then for the tub outlet underneath the valve make the copper piping not as long maybe down 1 foot from the valve and make that a separate hand held shower instead of using it for a tub spout.
I think I said this correctly.
Thank you,
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packy (MA)
a tub and shower valve will either have some built-in way of switching between 2 outlets or it will have a spout that will fill a tub or you will have some way of closing off that spout to force the water thru the shower head.
you can not have the choice of where to divert the water that comes from the spout. you either fill a tub or you take a shower using the shower head up top.
what you want is a thermostatic shower valve with 2 volume controls.
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hj (AZ)
You will need a "3 port diverter" so you can choose either the hand held or wall mount shower. Otherwise, ANYTHING you connect to the "tub spout" opening will either run all the time the shower is being used, or force water out of the shower head when the hand held is turned off.
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bernabeu (SC)
ditto hj
go to an actual plumbing supply (not a big box store) and ask the same ?
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