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High Pressure Shower Heads - Enjoy Your Showers Again! High Pressure Shower Head

Speakman.

We use them in hospital and institutional buildings. Yes, I am a plumber.

+1. Our house was set @ 55 psi when I checked it before putting in the soda fountain (carbonation can backflow if it's not set right vs. house pressure). I cranked it up to 75 and our showers are much, much better. The gauges cost about $10 and it's pretty simple to adjust- you just have to make sure you don't turn it up too high or scouring can destroy your pipes and appliances.

edit: Yes! The Speakman (is it Easyflow?) heads are awesome.

edit again: Anystream; that's it. Thank you, David

As a liberator of restrictors in shower heads, its pretty much up to how the shower head looks if you want to pay a lot. Once you get the restrictor out, they all work much better then before Myself, I'm partial to Moens. The new plumbing codes are exhausting. I recently had a master bathroom added to our house the included a air-tub. It required a regulator that would not let the water get much above 100, no mater how you tried with the knobs. I paid the guy to remove it once the inspection was done.

The link I posted earlier is for the Speakman Anystream. You can dial in anything from high flow, low velocity to low flow, high velocity.

What can you do if your water pressure out of the city main line is 40 psi or so? Thats all we have where I live and would love to see 50 or higher.

Normal pressure should be above 60psi. I have put in baths that have around 50 at the end of the line with no regulator. The Hans Ghroe will still work wonders with only 50 psi. I turned the pressure up to 70 at my own home. All the hose bibs are about 120psi. I bypass the regulator because its going outside and I like to blast the local wild lives and keep the coons at bay. I am up in the hills and the pressure is at 120 or so.

$100 for a showerhead? LOL, not in my house .... ;)

I replaced the pre-installed shower head with WASSA, and unexpectedly it increased the shower flow to a level sufficient to meet my needs. This is not an uncomfortable shower intensity, it keeps me clean and strong enough to enter a pseudo-meditation state.

I drilled mine to 3/8." Works like a charm. I'm not under the water long, so I don't use that much water. If MrSWD used it she'd drain the water heater.

California is the specialist for those water saving heads... Some hotels have pressure but limited flow, so you get sandblasted instead of showered, to the point it's painful !

At my house we simply removed the extra donut/filter/blocker and it's perfect, I don't think you need a special shower head as much as investigating if there's a block there... Any non-castrated shower head will flow plenty with good water pressure.

As of last year, I think, we can't get a 1.6 GPM shower head anymore. They are restricted even more but they still can be had in rest of the country. The Hans Grohe Club Master is no longer available and many vendors will and can't ship it to CA.

Just find the restrictor, remove or drill it.

Riiight...

I'm sure she is "enjoying" squeaky clean hair. :D