A few years ago, in an effort to reduce our water consumption, I went hunting for some low flow shower heads. At the time I had only experienced heads in the wild that left a bit to be desired. Poor pressure and\/or small spray patterns often took longer to rinse soap off, somewhat canceling out any water savings. <\/p>\n
A friend of mine recommended I try out the Delta 75152 Water Amplifying Showerhead<\/a>. At around $20 bucks there wasn’t much risk so I gave it a try. I was impressed by how much better this was than typical low flow shower heads. The spray pattern is large, and feels like a traditional showerhead, but it’s using less water. <\/p>\n The first unit I bought was the Delta 75152 that offers a knob to adjust flow from 1.8gpm to 2.5gpm. I found that the 1.8gpm was plenty, and I haven’t moved the adjustment knob in years. My local utility, as well as many others, offer rebates for fixtures that are WaterSense Labeled, so my second unit was the Delta 52655<\/a> ($22) that has a fixed 1.5gpm flow rate. <\/p>\n After having these for 4 years, I have experienced no trouble with lime or calcium buildup, and they look as good as the day I installed them. The only negative I’ve found with these heads is that the angle adjustment is somewhat limited, so I can’t swing the head around to rinse the walls of the shower on cleaning day. That problem is easily fixed with a splash of water from a cup.<\/p>\n Reduce water consumption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31300,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298\/revisions\/31300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}