the broomstitch

I find myself with an unhealthy curiosity about how the thing-with-a-hose feels you with great anxiety...

That seems rather more like science fiction than plumbing (although I suppose it could be about plumbing and science fiction...).

[Possibly more help - use teflon tape, and tighten firmly, but not excessively]

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Cursed typos that make it sound like I'm interested in plumbing erotica! Not only that, but I also gave the entry a bizarre tag, and I have no idea how I did that or how to remove the tag. Considering what's been on my mind this week, I could have done worse.

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Having been mostly offline all week, and catching up in the least efficient way possible... er, yes -- it sounds like you've had quite the week!

I suppose "Don't worry, the instructions are predicated on limited competence" would be rather like damning with faint praise...

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the instructions are predicated on limited competence

My own assumption is that the instructions are written by people who have never even seen the product.

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Heh. Like other folk in the thread, I'm speaking from experience ;)

I'd strongly recommend not trying to mix-and-match parts from different kits, however...

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Meanwhile, in the town of Eureka, someone again accidentally rips open the Fabric of Reality.

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Complete with overflowing waters?

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And exploding toilets, which happened when Deputy Jo made the mistake of trying to pluck her eyebrows with a laser.

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Not to worry! The shower head replacement should be a lot easier than you might think. If the previous shower head was properly placed, it's only "hand-tightened" and that means you can remove it with hand strength alone. No need to get out the plumber's wrench. The new hand-held shower part must have the attachment piece included, and that goes on the pipe. It's almost like a plug-and-play device.

I just replaced our old "shower head with a hose" and it took no more than 15 minutes; about ten minutes to open the package, read the directions, and 5 minutes to follow those directions.

In other news: welcome home, Sue! Now you can sleep in your own bed with no nurses waking you around 4 am to make sure you're sleeping.

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Plummer's wench? You mean, Amanda Plummer's mother?
("No, Serge. The plumber's wrench.")
Oh.
Nevermind.

The shower head's replacement wound up taking about as much time as you described for each step. I had to unscrew the new head after I turned on the water because water was spraying out, but screwing it back in did the trick.

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Amanda Plummer has a wrench? Send her to my house, stat!

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The last time I was in a hospital, I was woken by one fellow (to provide me with a c-pap machine) who philosophically told me that the best place to sleep was a library and the worst a hospital.

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I can believe it. They're terrible for your health.

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Yup, all those ill people. It's enough to put you off health.

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marydell.livejournal.com

You can fix tags on entries from the "manage tags" thingy that's somewhere in your profile or user options--you can't do it from the menu itself.

This sort of replacement showerhead is very very easy to install. You just unscrew the head part of your current showerhead, which leaves the neck thingy sticking out, and then screw on the new thingy. It might say something about plumber's tape--that's just a thin plastic cover that wraps around the threads on the neck thingy to make them grip better.

It's entirely mechanical; no plumbing knowledge needed. Just screwing threaded thingies together.

Any kit that includes a new neck thingy is to be avoided.

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Thanks for the pointer on how to manage tags. I still have no idea how this happened at all. It might be because of my having slept barely over one hour, but how is a mystery. My LJ had problems conjuring up the Groucho icon of another comment I posted this morning, but that one fixed itself. It probably was just a coincidence.

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Glad she home; hope the showerhead doesn't give you too much trouble!

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Thanks. The shower head's setup worked out fine, after all. The only problem I had is that, when Sue went to that medical-supplies place before her surgery, she had specifically asked for a shower chair. We just found out that they gave us a tub chair, and that it's too wide. I'll need to have a chat with them tomorrow. Idjits!

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Oh, I assume Sue will be well before you head to hotels, but this is something to be very careful about in hotels. You'll ask for a transfer bench (is that what you got -- part of it goes outside the tub and the person sits out there and then slides across into the tub?) and they'll give you a shower bench. Like that helps you to get inside the tub!

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Luckily, it'll be 5 weeks before we get on the road to the Bay Area. Bt then we'll have no need of transfer benches in shower stalls, or of shower benches in tubs.

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You're developing a Trinidadian accent ('glad she home')...

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Serge, what you have to worry about is getting hosed.

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I thought he'd already gotten hosed... or maybe it's just that he's wet behind the ears...

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Serge, wet behind the ears? I doubt it. It's more that he suffers from rising damp.

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Am I going to have to tell you kids to pipe down?

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You trying to dilute matters?

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How to answer that? What a gut-wrenching decision.

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The effort must be draining.

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I fear I'm all tapped out.

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I suspect the faucet is with you.

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You guys are such wish-washy types.

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Now, now, don't be drippy.

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mjlayman.livejournal.com

My shower and the guest bathroom tub both have regular heads and showers-on-a-hose (a switch on the main head swaps) and while I can't change them anymore, it's certainly easy, so I'm glad to hear you managed it other than getting a bit damp.

I have a shower bench that stays in the shower and a transfer bench in the storeroom to be brought into the guest bath if I have a period where a) the shower is unusable, or 2) I can't stand up much.

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The shower-on-a-hose came with a connector that'd allow me to also use the regular head, but, due to my lack of confidence in my plumbing skills, I decided to follow the KISS Principle - where KISS stands for "Keep It Simple, Stupid", but you probably already knew that.

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