How to install showerhead? – Delavin (2024)

by delavin home June 14, 2024

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• 00:00 What's going on guys and welcome back to baker's diy lifestyle. So today what we're going to be doing is replacing. This old outdated shower faucet and head and we're going to be updating it with a nice black. Rainfall head that we bought off amazon so what we're really trying to go for. In our new house is a lot of black trim sleek. Modern look but also mixed with our classic farmhouse look so what we really wanted in this tile. Bathroom was a nice rainfall type shower head but also have the wine system mounted to it. So this is what we found on amazon instead of having the wand built into the actual rainfall system. It's got a completely separate head up top but also the one that you can pull off and you can even adjust this little knob to allow you to use just the rainfall head just the handheld part or run them both at the same exact time. So this system is super cool. It looks really nice and it wasn't very expensive so of course.

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• 00:56 I will link this down in the description for you guys if you're interested in a product like this but going through the installation we're going to show you how to remove your old shower head your old trim kit for your handle and replace it all so that you can update the look for your shower for really not too much work and it'll just give you this beautiful updated appearance in your shower so with that we're going to get to putting this thing on so the faucet we chose to go with is this soca we got it off of amazon. We're going to go ahead and open this box up get the instructions out and see how difficult. It's going to be to install so here's everything inside of the box. You can see. We have the part that goes from the top to the bottom. It looks like and transfers the water down to the handheld unit. All this bubble wrap the actual rainfall head which looks pretty sweet. It's definitely made of plastic and then we've got more bubble wrap on everything we've got our hose for the handheld unit. The actual handheld unit which also feels like plastic definitely uh not metal high quality stuff. But it is what it is when you get it off amazon. So we've got our two rings. Oh. There's our metal so we've got a little bit of metal. In.

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• 02:13 There all the little parts uh what looks like the spigot for the rainfall unit and the instructions so looking at the instructions. They're pretty straightforward for a shower head install. The only difference is down here at the bottom. We are going to have to drill into the tile in order to mount this piece for the handheld unit so that's going to be a little bit different and we're definitely going to have to measure out this bottom piece to see exactly where we're going to drill into the tile. But other than that this thing should be pretty straightforward and we should be able to get it put in very quickly. The first steps you'll be tackling is just removing the old shower head which is as simple as taking a pair of pliers grabbing hold of it and twisting it loose so. This little brass piece that you see me screwing in came with the new shower head that is what the actual system kind of hangs on and will mount to here in a little bit. The next thing you'll see me doing is hanging it up trying to get it level so that I can see where to mark the screw holes for the bottom mount and then starting to drill through the tile.

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• 03:41 So all right guys so drilling through the tile is definitely taking way too long. So. I went back to lowe's and got some construction adhesive and I'm actually just gonna glue. This little piece on. It's really just there to hold the bottom of the handle and I'm not too afraid of this thing like getting knocked off or anything just because all you do is twist it off and on whenever you're going from whenever you're going from the rainfall head to the little handle part. That's gonna be down here so what I'm gonna do is go ahead and put some construction adhesive on the back of it line. It up stick it on the tile and then I will silicone around the outside of it as well because I've already got the holes probably a quarter of the way drilled into the tile and that silicon will actually sit down in the hole and come to the outside and almost create like a little. I don't know just a little silicone tab to keep it from rotating or moving anywhere. So. I think that's the route I'm going to go with it for now and we'll use it for a while and of course if something bad happens.

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• 04:36 I'll let you guys know later on after the video is posted but for right. Now. We're going to rock and roll with this stuff all right so what I ended up. Doing is putting the pressure of the rod actually onto this bottom piece to hold it with the glue while it's drying so there was two different types of construction adhesive in the little tubes at lowe's. There was a almost instant type glue and then the one I got that said three times stronger. I don't know if that's true or not but that's what we went with. So I've got. It kicked on the back and smushed it out and the weight of the actual shower head is holding it in place and then. I went ahead and put this clear silicone on both sides of it into the holes that we drilled and then brought it all the way to the outside of it and around the outside of the tabs. So we should have like a little silicone tab down in the holes that is going to hold it kind of solid keep it from sliding back and forth also just helps stick it to the wall just a little bit. But I'm going to let it sit for about 30 minutes or so while we go eat dinner and that should give it enough dry time that whenever we're trying to put everything together that it won't pop off when we get back from dinner if it is still a little bit wet.

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• 05:41 I'll go ahead and start on the handle and show you guys how to replace that as well. But once we get it cured enough to work on. We'll go ahead and finish putting the rest of the shower head in and we'll give it a day to set up and we should be ready to use the shower again after that. So whenever you're replacing a handle you can either get just a trim kit or when you're replacing it. If you're going to a different brand or a different style. The screw holes that actually hold it together might not match up with the actual valve that's in the wall so you'll have to do a little research. On this. We've got a mold handle. Currently so. I went ahead and just got the same brand. I got another black mold handle and I'm double checked and verified that it's actually going to match the valve that is already in the wall.

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• 06:20 So this installation is going to be super easy. All we have to do is unscrew. The old trim put the new trim on and it'll be good to go do all right guys. So at this point we've got the whole system installed and I just ran the water for about a minute like it says in the instructions just to get any dirt or anything that might be trapped in the pipes from shipping. It'll blow all that stuff out that way. When you put on the actual shower head and the wand here you don't have to worry about it. Getting clogged up so now that we know everything's good. We're going to go ahead and get the shower head put on get. The one foot up and we'll be ready to rock and roll all right guys. So that is it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed how we put this thing together and a little bit of rigged up section that we had to do in order to get this bottle piece put on so again. I'm not super worried about this piece. It's already pretty dry just from putting it on and let it sit for the couple hours that I've been working on it.

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• 09:08 But the only problem we might have is if we tug on the cable too hard it might pop off of the wall and in that case the only thing we would have to do is go back in finish drilling those holes and actually put the screws down. So it's not a huge fix if it doesn't stick to the wall but for right now. I know as long as we be careful with it. It should last for a pretty long time but we're excited to check this thing out and see how it works while we're in the shower and I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did enjoy us putting this thing together and there was any information that you might have learned please be sure to hit that like button and hit the subscribe button because that will really help the channel grow and I hope you'll check out some of our other do-it-yourself how-to content whether it be for your yard for your house or your car. And with that. I will see you guys in the next video thanks for watching.

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