Your favorite shower head?

Here's what I switched to - a kitchen sink sprayer! Instant on/off - good spray - great for saving water. All for under $15 - can't beat that! ST

poppin_fresh wrote:
......The Inox hose on the other hand is awesome compared to a PVC one. No longer does water run down the old, inflexible hose around the shower curtain and onto the floor.

Nor does the memory in the hose keep torquing the shower head off to the side.

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Whew! All these years I thought it was just me not putting the darn shower head right in the holder.

I HATE when then thing keeps turning where I am not standing!

For me just one more reason I rate my stay at CG's on how nice their shower facilities are. :W

I replaced the cheapo shower head and hose in our trailer with an Oxygenics and an Inox stainless hose from the website that rhymes with bamazon.

The Oxygenics is decent, but I cant say I noticed a huge improvement in flow or in HW tank longevity. It would definitely never fool anyone into thinking they were in their home shower.

The Inox hose on the other hand is awesome compared to a PVC one. No longer does water run down the old, inflexible hose around the shower curtain and onto the floor. Nor does the memory in the hose keep torquing the shower head off to the side. This will be the first upgrade I make to our new TT this spring.

Also, regarding those Oxygenics shower heads. Although they may be able to save water if used carefully from injecting air into the water stream and from turning them ON/OFF while showering (Navy showers) - they may need a higher flow-capacity water pump to perfrom their air injection process better.

We have an Oxygenics and I wasn't impressed with it's "shower comfort" (I haven't yet measured it's water usage improvement). I've since installed a high capacity pump in our RV to see of the Oxygenics shower head will actually "save water" through more efficient air injection, while at the same time provide improved shower comfort.

It sounds counter-intuitive to install a higher capacity pump to decrease shower water usage, but we'll see what happens with better air injection. I do know that the higher capacity RV water pump sure makes using the kitchen sink faucet a lot nicer and may actually save water there, to ... because it needs to be "ON less" in order to rinse stuff off.

IMHO, for home use or if you always have full hookups, it doesn't make much difference what shower head you use. But if you are conserving water, either because of a limited water supply or no sewer hookup, it makes a big difference.

I ran a test between the Meridian fancy shower head and the Oxygenics when I installed it. Is was a fill the bucket to 1gal vs. time test.

I don't remember the numbers now, but with both shower heads on full, the Oxygenics uses the same volume against the clock. The huge difference is that you can back off the Oxygenics to 50% with the valve and it still produces an excellent spray where the Meridian OEM head turns pretty wimpy. It's roughly 40-50 less water for a perfectly usable spray.

We're not trying to reproduce a stick built home shower, just trying to make sure we have a good shower for the duration of our outing. Important to us with only 60 gallon FW tank. We love the Oxygenics.

kohai wrote:

kohai wrote:
Oxygenics Body Spa with Smartpause

It looks like a lot of people are using this model on RVs. I assume the bigger fancier heads with more spray patterns consume more water. Is that true?

To answer my own question.... It looks like most Oxygenics heads run 1.75 gpm - 2.0 gpm regardless of head size.

To me, the advantage of the Oxygenics is that it gives a shower with good pressure at much reduced flow. Since we often camp without hookups, it is important to me to conserve water. Don't ask me what flow rate I use, I don't know. It is much lower than the full flow though.

kohai wrote:
Oxygenics Body Spa with Smartpause

It looks like a lot of people are using this model on RVs. I assume the bigger fancier heads with more spray patterns consume more water. Is that true?

To answer my own question.... It looks like most Oxygenics heads run 1.75 gpm - 2.0 gpm regardless of head size.

Cloud Dancer wrote:
I want one with a on/off valve on it.

The Oxygenics comes with an on/off valve. Like all shower valves, it does not fully shut off to help prevent a sudden blast of very hot or cold water when turning the valve back on.

I replaced the OEM valve with a valve that shuts the shower completely off.