Hi,

Does anyone use a wall shower head with a clawfoot tub. I love the look but can’t phantom taking baths ALL the time or holding a shower head in hand. I would like to install a shower head off the wall. Does the water get everywhere? Does anyone have this setup and have come across problems?


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  1. Mopar is right, I did this to, with the riser setup. All the plumbing is exposed, but it looks nice. Bought mine from deabath.com. There’s no problem with water spray, the curtain goes all the way around. The only negative is that you have to step over the side of the bathtub to get in the shower, which is a little higher than a non-clawfoot tub wall.

    I thought about the handheld in case we ever have kids.

  2. We have two of these.

    You don’t mount the shower on the wall, nor do you run plumbing inside the wall. The shower goes inside the curtain. You use an extra-long curtain that goes completely around the tub or you overlap three regular curtains together.

    Check the shower section of vintagetub.com site for pictures.

  3. It doesn’t necessarily need to be above the curtain rod, but if you go with a full ring so the shower curtain is continuous around the entire tub then the showerhead makes sense above that to avoid the break in the curtain. The link is just the first image i could find to show what i mean (except the image shows the showerhead mounted to the rod…)

    http://www.builderssquare.com/xp_8445735-CLAWFOOT_TUB_SHOWER_ENCLOSURE_OVAL_CURTAIN_RING_CHROME_FINSH_BESCO_80_IND_404_CP.aspx

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