Tools for Installing a Shower Head

Series Summary

Are you tired of beginning each day with a sad trickle of water from you old shower head? Has the term “water pressure” lost all meaning? Showerhead filters can easily become clogged with sediment deposits, and over time this can turn what should be a solid surge into a dismal drip. Many of the new shower heads available today not only offer massaging jets but water-saving features as well. If you’re looking for a boost in water pressure, or you’re remodeling or redecorating your bathroom, and feel it’s time to upgrade to a handheld model, the process of installing a new shower head is easy and makes a great do-it-yourself project.

In this series of free home improvement videos, expert engineer and licensed home inspector George A. Finn III guides you through the entire process of installing a new hand-held shower head. He shows you what tools you’ll need to get started and offers tips on planning the installation process. He demonstrates how to remove the old shower head, tape the pipe for proper threading, and then shows you the correct procedure for installing the hand-held showerhead, connecting the hose, and how to test the seals to check your work. Pamper yourself with a new shower head and rediscover the joy of showering today!

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Drew Fenn professional home inspector. I am here for Expertvillage.com. Today, we are going to install a shower head and I will show you how and the video is produced by Black Dog Video. You can visit blackdogvideo.biz on the internet. Here are the tools we are going to need to install the shower head, we need a adjustable crescent wrench, philipscrewdriver, power screwdriver with a regular blade on it, we are going to need some silicon caulk just to make a seal, we need to drill from this application with a special tip, carbide tip for drill for masonry and will go through the tile of the wall with it to install it. We are going to need some teflon tape for the threaded fittings. So the thread fittings, which will be making a seal and then the hardware that comes with it to mount the bar and those are the tools that we are going need to install the shower head and the bar. If you are doing just a shower head we would not need to seal it and we would not need the screwdrivers."