Shower hose problem

[meeshe76]

I've got a bath with taps that have a facility to attach a shower hose, which I use for washing my hair, but not to shower with due to the walls being too thin to bother with putting a shower in. Anyway, after buying a new hose because the last one had folded and started to split where it was bent a lot at the taps end, the same thing has happened to the new hose but almost instantly! The water doesn't flow out of it unless I use one hand to hold up the hose by the taps, where the fold is preventing the water coming through - does anyone have any tips on how to sort this out?!

[Plocket]

Well first of all if it's still new I'd take it back to the shop where you bought it and get another one! I'm not sure I quite understand what the problem is, but if you have a fold couldn't you attach the two fittings to the opposite taps - ie the one on the hot tap mow gets put on the cold tap? That way the hose is getting pressure on the opposite side of the hose. Am I making any sense??!!!!!

[stanleyman]

You need a proper shower hose with the flexible outer supporting metal tube that supports the inner tube to stop this happening. You may need a standard shower head and connection at the tap to attach it properly.

[meeshe76]

Thanks for your answers guys, I'm not sure what you mean but I probably haven't worded my question very well!

The taps on my bath have a hole in the middle, which is especially for a shower hose attachment, and you can change the water flow to come from the taps, to come from the shower hose... This attachment is at the top centre of the taps, hence gravity pulls the hose down, resting on the taps, which has made the hose fold near to where it is attached to the taps - hence affecting the water flow. There must be some way to prevent and rectify this...

In the meantime, Plocket, I will take the hose back for a refund and try to get a better quality one maybe, this one is plastic outer which is bendy - can you get a metal one that doesn't bend so much? Is that what you mean stanleyman?

Thanks!

[stanleyman]

It sounds like an ordinary combined shower and mixer tap. A metal armoured shower hose will be better but may also collapse in time if allowed to permanently kink. I suggest you fix some pipe clips or simular to the wall to take the slack and support the bend. You maybe able to buy or get a plumber to make up a rigid pipe fixed to the shower outlet with a bend directed down allowing the hose to hang down without kinking.

[meeshe76]

stanleyman

Yes that's what I meant, sorry I should've explained it better! Excellent idea - I will have a look in B&Q for metal hose and consider the idea of pipe clips, or get plumber to look at.

Many thanks!