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Installing Plumbing Loop and Fixtures for Multiple Head Shower

Bob tours the upstairs master bath with an eye towards the space's luxury appointments, including the double vanity fixtures, granite countertop, and Wellborn cabinets. Plumber Dave DuVerger is installing a trim package to finish off the spacious shower. The shower features three showerheads in a nearly six-by-six foot enclosure. To supply enough water pressure, these are built on a plumbing loop with a 3/4-inch supply line.

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Installing Plumbing Loop and Fixtures for Multiple Head Shower

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" The master bath and house of this sort is usually a room where. All the bells and whistles are put in and you got beautiful granite counters and beautiful solid double vanity and just you know detailing that's really really deluxe -- Kohler sinks are and we haven't finished trim. And -- the merger are plumbers putting in that the trim package in here. And this I must say this this is a very nice sized shower enclosure it's about almost six feet square. So that means it's really one of those fancy Roman deals with a truly characterize what we actually have 3 certainly I can tell also that's right. For. My first question always is how you make sure that you're gonna have enough water coming out all these sources this. You've got this in what is your temperature controls you mixer. And that's and that's called rights code and then you've got 12. In three different source controls that's right. You if you put all three of them on the same time doesn't that diminish the amount of water and I don't they they would normally if they weren't. If they -- well one captain and all and as they went from a source the pressure would drop any successive head. But we tie the end the last one back in the first on the level -- when it maintains even -- not present throat. All and it's so you don't have to stop and make a right turn you're just getting off the expressway that's right doesn't reduce the volume water. What about the size piping that's used a lot of it especially with these bigger -- so -- we -- three quarter -- blindness directly following optimist so you feed it with treatment -- problems yet this is the new -- caller I believe. It's very interesting to what they're doing is they're combining the traditional chrome. With a more upscale brass knuckled player who's just brass and it's a very nice look at kind of a European look different -- yeah and that kind of runs throughout the whole bathroom. "

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