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Lgokdm (VA)
Thank you so much for your help.
Here is the original installed. It has a hex screw holding it in underneath.
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Here it is out -- it didnt really screw into threads. It just kinda pulls in and out.
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Here is the hole in the wall. The metal ring is permanently attached to the marble.
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Here is my new head
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I bought a Universal 8" shower arm w/flange from Danco (item 89179) and the arm is too thick for the hole.
So im lost. Am i screwed because the metal flange (with the hex type screw on the bottom) is permanently attached to the marble? Do i just need a smaller arm? But then whats with the old head not screeing in but kinda just sliding in? Or is this just a crappy job?
Thank you so much for your help b
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KCRoto (MO)
So let me see if I can put this all together. The set screw on the trim was holding the shower arm in place. The shower arm remained watertight by the use of the two gaskets and slid into a machined surface that was part of the original shower head, presumably so that it had a 360 degree rotation. Now you want to install a normal shower arm and are trying to put it into the machined socket designed for the old shower arm? If this is the case, it won't work. The best case scenario is that the piece containing the set screw will unscrew from a standard drop ear 90 inside the wall cavity, and you can attach your new shower arm and head there. Worst case scenario is that you will have to open the wall up (from the back I hope) and replace the connection with a standard drop ear 90.
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hj (AZ)
The metal ring is NOT "permanently attached to the wall". It unscrews from a pipe in the wall, but you will also have to remove the pipe after unscrewing the ring, and you may NOT have the tools to do that.
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Lloyd C (DE)
Installing a shower head just takes a few minutes it does not needs a plumber. . It's usually as easy as unscrewing the old, then replacing it with the new one.
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hj (AZ)
quote; "It's usually as easy as unscrewing the old, then replacing it with the new one."
Have you looked at his pictures. He does NOT have a "conventional" shower head or arm so it is not that "EASY"?!
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