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I really want to take super long showers, but I pay the water bill so.....
Fact is, the shower we have is.... Strange to say the least.
It's a wand. Only a wand. Most wand showers also hang up in a way that allows you to just, use it like a normal shower.... Not this one. I actually hate it, but don't have the budget to replace it right now, since it will likely need a partial renovation for the bathroom and that's our only shower, so everyone is going to get a bit stinky while it's reno'd.
What I want to do is to add a new bathroom with a shower/bath, then reno the current one, so we can shower during the reno.
Edit: before anyone else comments about how easy it is to change your shower head, I don't think you understand exactly how strange our shower is. There's nowhere to put a "normal" shower head. There's no pipe coming out of the wall at head-height that we can connect a shower head to. The wand literally goes into the wall of the tub when it's not in use (similar to how the sprayer things work on some kitchen sinks.... If you're familiar with that, but the controls are not just a button on the handle to turn it on, they're on the edge of the tub.
Weird enough for you?
I can see a cutout in the wall panel of the shower where the diverter should go, and it's not cut open. We will need to tear out about half of the wall panels to put in the diverter and a standard shower head connector thing.... I'm not a plumber, but the one we hired when the original hardware in the shower started leaking took about three days or more to find hardware to install that would work with the odd layout of it.
I know it doesn't really come across by text, so if you want some semblance of what I'm dealing with, the wand is a bit like this one... Or at least closer to this than what you have in your showers: https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/Bath-Rim-Pull-Out-Shower-Head.html
Yeah. I hate it.
Do you know how long a renovation would take? Maybe you could get away with washing with a wet rag/towel to save building a whole new bathroom. Unless you also just want two bathrooms because that's neat to have.
Oh. We want another bathroom for completely unrelated reasons. Since we considered this place, we knew that we wanted to renovate to put in a bathroom and some other things. It's always been a part of the plan.
To be brief: the house purchase was a joint venture by myself and my partner with my brother and his partner. We have two family units under the same roof. I won't get into all of the reasons we decided to go this way, but needless to say, there's one shower for essentially two families.
Where the current bathrooms and shower are (we have two bathrooms right now, only one has a shower), they're in my brother's "side" of the house. My "side" of the house isn't even plumbed with water at all.
So the plan is, and always has been, to do renovations at some point to bring water over to that side of the house, and have a bathroom installed for my partner and I. We also want our own kitchen and a couple other small things. There's space to do it, the garage is far larger than we need, so we're going to convert part of it over to be the new bathroom space, and there's a good area in our current "living room" that we want to turn into a type of galley kitchen.... More or Less.
So by getting those renovations done first, we would have a second shower and the situation in the house would just kind of reverse. Instead of us going into their part of the house to get a shower, they would come to our side until their shower is finished.
That makes a lot of sense, wish you good luck on the whole process
Thanks. I'll need it.