Clawfoot Tub Shower – Easy to Install Without Any Plumbers

Once considered an antique item, Clawfoot bath tubs now have immense popularity and demand. With the overture of Clawfoot tub shower, an additional echelon of convenience has come in bathing.   These showers are available for extra fitting in separate kits and can be purchased from your local hardware stores.  While saving on the money expended behind a plumber, it is also relatively easy to fit a Clawfoot tub shower to your Clawfoot tub. Before going into the details of the fitting of a Clawfoot tub shower one needs to understand the art of bathing and the point of time when shower bathing was introduced as an added luxury.

Bathing in a tub was introduced late after the 1st world war when there was a need for large scale housing in the United States. Modern bathrooms with reasonably equipped fittings and fixtures with metal pipelines were in great demand. Long before Clawfoot tub showers came into prominence, bath tubs were introduced in these bathrooms as built-in fixtures that saw a revolutionary change in the hygienic activity of daily bathing. As more elaborate bath fittings came into existence, improved qualities of fragrant bathing soaps and oils also emerged. Bathing was now a ritualistic art, with time being spent on body care and cleanliness.

The introduction of bubble bath saw another insurrection in the bathing process and this led to the emergence of the need for a shower. Bubble bath in a deep Clawfoot bath tub was an inimitable experience, but having a shower with it was a bit of botheration. This almost pushed Clawfoot tubs out of existence but the added gadgetry in the form of Clawfoot tub shower came just in time with relatively simple fitting requirements.

If you are familiar with the simple operations of a faucet and can tighten a few nuts to prevent leaking, Clawfoot tub shower can be easily fitted without the help of a plumber. Just ensure that the kit supplied by the hardware store contains all the necessary parts and fittings along with the nuts and the washers to make it complete.  Turn off the water supply of your house to prevent spillage of water all over, while working on a live supply line. The kit will have a detailed instruction sheet to help you with the installation of the faucet. Connect the faucet to the two holes in the tub and the supply tubes to the inlet pipes.  Tighten up the water supply nuts to ensure no leakages occur.  Fit in the shower enclosure which contains the shower riser and the shower closure connector. This would leave you with the fitting of the shower head with the pipe into the faucet.  Now your Clawfoot tub shower is almost ready. Tighten all the nuts once again and turn on the house water mains. Before testing the Clawfoot tub shower, check around to see if water is dripping from the region around the nuts that you have just tightened. The problem can be resolved immediately by little more tightening. Now once the shower faucet is turned on, the entire setup of Clawfoot tub shower is complete.