Check out this frigin' shower!!!

[mwilson]

On "Staycation" for part of the week but wife is working for a few days. Took lunch to her today on a jobsite and she showed me the shower that the tile guy and plumber just finished...they were not there right then but wanted to ask how many GPM of water that thing needs to function....

 

[mwilson]

As you can see there are two showers, one relatively normal one and the other with the wall jets and super soaker above...

 

[Jim W]

My son who is a plumber has installed several of these type of showers in higher end homes. He said that they would plumb in 1" (one) and some times 1.25" (one and a quarter) copper pipe to allow adequate water flow to the heads. So you can guess how much water flow these take.

P.S. I am too lazy to dig out my engineering books to figure out the water flow now that I am retired.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I want one

 

[mwilson]

In the first pic the wall control allows you to set different temps and/or flow rate for wall nozzles and overhead soaker. Lights, fan and heat on remote control. Could hear the relays but couldn't find them looking quick...

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Looks more like a car wash!

 

[Larry Willard]

I did a few similar years ago when I was still pulling wrenches. I told my wife on the fanciest one that they should have put a second entry on the other side and you could go through just like in a car wash.

 

[Regcabguy]

With the price of water in San Diego,it'd be a $5.00 shower each time.

 

[JR]

Now they just need one in the floor and they'd be able to bidet themselves to their hearts content :-laf

 

[CBari]

I have one with half as many body jets and can tell with any two functions selected 1/2inch line doesn't supply enough wish I would have ran 3/4 or 1 inch. As far as how many GPM I have no idea but it is nice with two in the shower having both the hand held and the overhead. No one gets cold.

 

[mwilson]

I'm thinking it would require 1" for both to operate at the same time. The place has a man made pond that they top off using the well so they do have supply enough from the drilled well for some serious water movement..

 

[The patriot]

My house has 90 psi pressure.
When we had the Sandy storm blow through here, some relatives used our shower. They siad "You can hurt yourself with that pressure if you dont watch where the head is aimed.":-laf

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Back around '01 we were running new power lines for new houses in Fountain Hills, AZ, which is a wealthy community. During our lunch breaks we would check out some of the new houses during construction. One house I'll never forget had 32 heads/jets in it. I could only imagine the shenanigans that went on in there.