MystikIncarnate

That's a really good idea. I wish I could.

I'll look into it, but the wand is kind of square. The illustration I posted was far more round than what I have.

Thanks. I'll need it.

The threading is all over the place. We tried to find fittings for it. Heck.

Also, I don't really want to show the Internet how dirty my bathroom currently is. Heh.

Yeah, I barely understand it. I've replaced shower heads before, but we don't even have a pipe coming out of the wall for a shower head to attach to... I explained in more detail in another reply. In case you're interested in hearing more. Either way, have a good day.

Oh. We want another bathroom for completely unrelated reasons. Since we considered this place, we knew that we wanted to renovate to put in a bathroom and some other things. It's always been a part of the plan.

To be brief: the house purchase was a joint venture by myself and my partner with my brother and his partner. We have two family units under the same roof. I won't get into all of the reasons we decided to go this way, but needless to say, there's one shower for essentially two families.

Where the current bathrooms and shower are (we have two bathrooms right now, only one has a shower), they're in my brother's "side" of the house. My "side" of the house isn't even plumbed with water at all.

So the plan is, and always has been, to do renovations at some point to bring water over to that side of the house, and have a bathroom installed for my partner and I. We also want our own kitchen and a couple other small things. There's space to do it, the garage is far larger than we need, so we're going to convert part of it over to be the new bathroom space, and there's a good area in our current "living room" that we want to turn into a type of galley kitchen.... More or Less.

So by getting those renovations done first, we would have a second shower and the situation in the house would just kind of reverse. Instead of us going into their part of the house to get a shower, they would come to our side until their shower is finished.

It's definitely not going to be that easy.

Let me describe what was there when we moved in.... So, the bathroom has a fairly typical tub, for the purposes of this explanation, we won't go into things that aren't directly relevant.... So for now, it's fairly typical. However, there's no hot/cold controls on the wall, there's a faucet on the corner of the tub basin, with a lever that acts as the diverter, two knobs for hot and cold and there's, what looks like a grab bar, but it actually is a specialty pipe for the existing wand, that actually has a mount for the wand so the shower can be used normally.

Well, without going into too much detail, I'm fairly certain that at least one person cranked on the diverter too hard (no idea why) and basically turned the insides into sand. So now there is a leak that's dripping into the lower levels creating water damage. We shut off the water. Called a plumber.

Thousands of dollars later, our replacement faucet/diverter is odd to say the least: there is no diverter. There's actually two water controls, one for the wand, one for the tub faucet. You control both independently. The wand, no longer has a place to mount, when not in use the flex hose for it retracts into the side of the tub, leaving the head of the wand sticking out of the surface.

For the shower itself, we have zero of the usual trimmings. There's no cutout in the wall for a diverter, there's no threaded pipe coming out of the wall above your head for a shower head. There's almost none of what you would expect.

What I expect, on order to unfuck this situation, is that we'll have to tear out the part of the wall where the diverter and temp controls should be, install a standard diverter box, run a line from there, up the wall to put in a standard fitting for a shower head, then do all of the plumbing to make it all go, which will require copper pipe soldering, something I'm not qualified to do.

Trust me when I say: if it were as easy as you originally thought it was, then this would not be an issue for me, and it would have been completed long ago.

I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful here. Thanks for that, but unfortunately I think this is over both of our heads as amateurs. As far as I'm concerned, half the shower needs to be pulled apart to fix this monstrosity.

Okay. I hear what you're saying, but, given that everyone "needs" to be in the office and the office is in a major city, very few people live in the suburbs in the current workforce.

Most of the suburbs are owned by people either soon to be, or already retired.

When those houses get handed down to the person's progeny, generally the place is liquidated, bought by either a flipper or a landlord, and either ruined, run into the ground or otherwise trashed and taken off the market, possibly to be replaced with either a condo building, a "luxury" rental that nobody can afford, or something similarly terrible, like the house being renovated into single room "suites" for rent....

New developments are no longer an arm and a leg, but rather: both arms, both legs and at least one kidney, just for the down payment.

New "homes" are still being made and those that aren't snapped up by someone looking to make it into an "income property" are either going to rich folks from out of town that moved to the area because it's cheaper, and they sold their home in (insert large city name here) for millions of dollars.

There's a lot wrong with the housing market, and bluntly, neighborhoods have gone to shit. Parks are frequently unmaintained, and I never see anyone using any parks anymore, so many of them are getting omitted from new developments, so the number of local parks is shrinking. Add that to the growing number of people forced to live in the city where they work because commuting is a nightmare and they simply are not allowed to work from home because the boss doesn't want them to, and I'm sure we're getting more and more kids growing up in this kind of urban landscape.

The older generation can only blame themselves for doing it too... Which is likely not you, I'm talking about the people who started their career in a union, then when they decided to start their own business, got in there to union bust.

There's a lot of capitalists that drove entire markets into the dirt so they could have a bit more.

I blame reality TV

I really want to take super long showers, but I pay the water bill so.....

Fact is, the shower we have is.... Strange to say the least.

It's a wand. Only a wand. Most wand showers also hang up in a way that allows you to just, use it like a normal shower.... Not this one. I actually hate it, but don't have the budget to replace it right now, since it will likely need a partial renovation for the bathroom and that's our only shower, so everyone is going to get a bit stinky while it's reno'd.

What I want to do is to add a new bathroom with a shower/bath, then reno the current one, so we can shower during the reno.

Edit: before anyone else comments about how easy it is to change your shower head, I don't think you understand exactly how strange our shower is. There's nowhere to put a "normal" shower head. There's no pipe coming out of the wall at head-height that we can connect a shower head to. The wand literally goes into the wall of the tub when it's not in use (similar to how the sprayer things work on some kitchen sinks.... If you're familiar with that, but the controls are not just a button on the handle to turn it on, they're on the edge of the tub.

Weird enough for you?

I can see a cutout in the wall panel of the shower where the diverter should go, and it's not cut open. We will need to tear out about half of the wall panels to put in the diverter and a standard shower head connector thing.... I'm not a plumber, but the one we hired when the original hardware in the shower started leaking took about three days or more to find hardware to install that would work with the odd layout of it.

I know it doesn't really come across by text, so if you want some semblance of what I'm dealing with, the wand is a bit like this one... Or at least closer to this than what you have in your showers: https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/Bath-Rim-Pull-Out-Shower-Head.html

Yeah. I hate it.

You see.... I'm mainly focused on making it so that they hurt themselves. I'm focused on this because booby traps are illegal, and straight up shooting them rarely ends well.

I don't want anyone to get in trouble for their actions. I want the officer(s) to hurt themselves so they get ridiculed for being stupid; both, by their peers and by the public.

Hell, I'd setup a trail camera type situation to keep an eye on things so I can post it to YouTube and/or rejig the situation so that the likelihood of them harming themselves from doing this thing is maximized.

By simply using materials that frequently ricochet bullets.... Nothing illegal has been done. It's not an active trap and it's not a problem, legally, to use the materials. The entire thing is passive, there's nothing that could even be considered a "trap" of any kind, and plausible deniability is easily proven by simply "I replaced it with this because the headstone kept getting damaged, I didn't think anyone would shoot it and hurt themselves your honour"

The only evidence that it was done maliciously would be if someone who was in a position to make it happen, commented here saying that they were intending to do this. If any such person exists and is considering it, I am not a lawyer, but I would advise that person to do so without getting involved in the discussion here at all. That would provide plausible deniability to the action being malicious. All you need is to inspire enough doubt that you can't be convicted.

Anyways I'm well into the weeds here.

I also agree with you that it is not illegal to kill cops (any more than it is illegal to kill anyone else), and defending yourself from the police in a situation where you are justified in using the force you are using, should not be punishable nor a crime, but you and I both know that reality is very divorced from the law and what's legal on this one. Even if you're legally allowed to defend yourself in the situation, the police will shoot and kill you, then walk on "qualified immunity" after they investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

Defund the police.

Can we..... Replace his headstone?

Hear me out. If we replace it with something that is known to reflect small arms fire, there's a nontrivial chance that the next time some asshole shows up to shoot the headstone and piss on his grave (probably), there would be a non-zero chance that person would shoot their own dick off by way of a ricochet.

Stone, while it looks nice and lasts a really long time (when it's not being shot), is great.... But maybe this one time?

I agree, helping eachother is the best any of us can be. I've dedicated my life to helping others.

My dayjob is IT support, and I am often holding certification in first aid (I currently need to renew this), and I have a lot of skills that I've developed specifically to assist others. I have, know how to operate, and actively use radio technology as a qualified amateur and regularly volunteer for events to help communication and coordination between medical teams, security, supplies and other services at public events.

I even carry a car battery boost device in my vehicles trunk for the odd time I come across someone who's car won't start, and I have a set of booster cables in case the battery in the pack is flat... As an example. I usually have a first aid kit in there too. Just in case.

There's a lot we could, and probably should be doing to help ourselves and others; I firmly believe that basic emergency first aid and CPR should be a part of the highschool curriculum, and we should learn how to access social services like disability services, welfare, unemployment, and other government services, in highschool as well. Instead we take classes on English in countries where that's the native language, yet people still don't know how to articulate themselves in a comprehendable way, and we take several years of maths classes, including algebra, geometry, and so much more, that most people never even see similar problems again ever... Instead of teaching algebra, how about a class on how to file your taxes?

I have a lot of strong feelings about it and bluntly, nobody with any possibility of enacting change, cares.

I strongly feel like highschool failed me, and most of the people in society, and it could be so much better, and there's simply no evolution or evaluation of what's being taught and what's actually relevant for people to know.

In any case, I hope I can continue to help others and that's the biggest reason why I'm still alive. I'm trying to make this place a bit more livable for the people that are here.

Ha. I'm on them. The meds I take for ADHD are classifiably also anti depressants.

What now, Poindexter?