I throw myself once more on the collective wisdom of the community...
ok - so in "upgrading" the place - I figured why NOT see if there was a better electric shower head.. And the Haitian "ingenerio" who does all things in the 'hood said - well indeed I could spend more money and get one with a hand held unit...
SUCH undreamed of Luxury!!
Well, no, actually since the tubing to the hand held is metal and no matter how many times Bite (The Haitian) stood on the outside of the cast iron tub with his shoes on and held the the tubing, it did not convince ME that I had not gotten a shock when I touched it,
My Solar Energy Specialist from France - now from LT- visited and said - well, yeah.. duh..there was always going to be a little electricity in the water
(Now DO NOT ask me -- I think electricity is generated in the wall or somewhere by little mice going around very fast in a circular aparatus)
So I suppose if you were getting into a plastic tub liner or something, or standing on the TILE floor, outside the tub, with your thick rubber soled shoes on-- you would not get a shock.
OK so I did not make Bite take his shoes off and get into the shower - I just had him disconnect it. After I read this article http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-28/us/soldier.electrocutions_1_electrocuted-shower-painful-death?
which I found while googling for info on a shower head..
Now the cold shower routine has been fine through the summer
but now it is getting a bit cooler and more "bracing" shall we say -- to get into that cold shower....
So can anyone give make and model number of a heating shower head - preferably with a hand held -- that will work? And where you got it?
(and no, I am not going to repair the water heater since that -- according to the French expert - is also going to involve repairing all the pipes -- and there has to be a limit for a renter!)
mesi davant.
(thanks in advance -Kreyole- which I think is one of the BEST phrases !
ok - so in "upgrading" the place - I figured why NOT see if there was a better electric shower head.. And the Haitian "ingenerio" who does all things in the 'hood said - well indeed I could spend more money and get one with a hand held unit...
SUCH undreamed of Luxury!!
Well, no, actually since the tubing to the hand held is metal and no matter how many times Bite (The Haitian) stood on the outside of the cast iron tub with his shoes on and held the the tubing, it did not convince ME that I had not gotten a shock when I touched it,
My Solar Energy Specialist from France - now from LT- visited and said - well, yeah.. duh..there was always going to be a little electricity in the water
(Now DO NOT ask me -- I think electricity is generated in the wall or somewhere by little mice going around very fast in a circular aparatus)
So I suppose if you were getting into a plastic tub liner or something, or standing on the TILE floor, outside the tub, with your thick rubber soled shoes on-- you would not get a shock.
OK so I did not make Bite take his shoes off and get into the shower - I just had him disconnect it. After I read this article http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-28/us/soldier.electrocutions_1_electrocuted-shower-painful-death?
which I found while googling for info on a shower head..
Now the cold shower routine has been fine through the summer
but now it is getting a bit cooler and more "bracing" shall we say -- to get into that cold shower....
So can anyone give make and model number of a heating shower head - preferably with a hand held -- that will work? And where you got it?
(and no, I am not going to repair the water heater since that -- according to the French expert - is also going to involve repairing all the pipes -- and there has to be a limit for a renter!)
mesi davant.
(thanks in advance -Kreyole- which I think is one of the BEST phrases !