How to Install a Low-Flow Showerhead
Making our home eco-responsible involves more than just maximizing our government rebates. We are also making some upgrades that we won’t get any money back for.
Our natural gas company, Union Gas, had a display at one of our local malls recently where they demonstrated some tips for making your home more eco efficient. They gave out free “Energy Savings Kits” – which included a low-flow showerhead.
We decided to replace our old worn out and barely functioning shower head in our
main floor bathroom. We had given up having showers upstairs, so hopefully the new shower head will make this bathroom more useable and save some water, too.
- The showerhead
- A pair of vice grips
- Some pipe tape (which came with the free Energy Savings Kit from Union Gas)
- A kitchen towel
Step 1: Make sure the water is turned off and use the vice grips to unscrew the old shower head from the neck.
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Step 3: Now screw on the shower head over the pipe tape. You can start this by hand until snug.
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Step 5: Turn on the water to make sure that you have a good seal. If water comes out from around the screws, turn off the water and tighten it a little more using the kitchen towel to again so you don’t scratch the fixtures. Once you have a good seal you are done.
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Heather and Doug, parents of 3 teens, live in a 1950s drafty house in Dundas, Ontario. Through eco renovations, they are seeking to move their home from a 61 EnerGuide rating to the 82 points required to get government ecoENERGY retrofit grants.