I’ve got one of those big bathtubs that have no shower head in it. Instead of the faucet coming out of the wall, it comes from the top of the side of the tub. I guess thier solution to this was to put a large sink faucet on the tub instead of a normal tub faucet but this has created a problem for me. Because there is no shower head in this bathroom, I’m forced to wash my hair with a giant cup! I bought one of those handheld shower heads with the hose that you can hook up to a normal shower head but obviously its not made to go on a sink faucet. Since its a sink faucet, it has one of those littler aerators that screw into it that can be taken out. This gives the faucet a female end to it with thin threading. Well the hose is meant to hook up to a male end with thick threading. I’m trying to find a male to male adapter with thin threading on one end and thick threading on the other. This has become a nightmare as nothing is working and of course it’s the people who work at the diy stores that dont even know what a male and female end is so they know less than i do. One of them showed me this little thing which is a handheld shower that has a big rubber cup on the end which is meant to go over a tub faucet but that didnt work either. I finally got the thing on, turned the faucet on half way and it shot water everywhere for a second before shooting off the end of the faucet. Any help on what kind of adapter I could use would help, it doesnt even have to be for that. I bought something in the plumbing department last night that was male to male that fit the shower hose part but when i got it home i realized that the threading was way to big for the tub faucet.

Seriously about to take my faucet off, go up there with faucet and hose in hand and just ask them to connect them somehow!
This tub is designed to have a sink faucet on it, tub faucets wont go on it right. Its a major design flaw and just another one of the messed up things that were cheaped out on in this house (like the obviously angled walls in doorways that make the door crooked and wont shut!).

I never thought of the whole kitchen faucet/dishwasher thing, i’m gonna go check that out!

My grandmother’s house is vacant, and luckily I just happened to check on it just a day or so after the furnace’s thermostat broke. Especially lucky because the outdoor temperature dropped to an extremely low 1 degree that night!

The temperature was 44 degrees when I replaced the thermostat, and a faucet far from the main part of the house was already dry due to freezing. Water was still running in the main part of the house where the bathtub is. (I didn’t try the bathub faucet.)

The next day the indoor temperature was still only 56 degrees and the water was stopped at EVERY faucet. I changed the thermostat so that the furnaced ran at the higher setting (stage 2). And I closed an outdoor access door to the crawl space.

The next day water was available from all faucets.

Unfortunately, cold water was coming out the bathtub faucet even though the valves were closed. Not just a drip, but a steady stream. Far from full force, though.

Can you explain how this is possible?

The house is 100 years old, but the faucet and valves are modern (about 7 years old). I don’t know if the plumbing itself is updated, or if it’s just new fittings. The fittings look like those in this picture:

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A major difference is that grandma’s tub doesn’t have the middle valve, and there is a thing to pull up on the faucet to redirect the water to the shower head. I’m told that the ones in this picture are Gerber fittings, and that Gerber knobs can be retrofitted on old plumbing. (I’m not positive if Grandma’s fittings are Gerber — just that they look like them.)
Thank you both for your helpful answers. I wish I could split the points!

Plumbing is a hard and tedious profession. We all need a laugh sometimes. Here are some interesting facts about plumbing. Enjoy!

-Albert Einstein was an honorary member of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union

-In a typical home, over 9,000 gallons of water are wasted a year.

-The number one material in the world for water piping, copper piping, is the same material Egyptians used thousands of years ago.

-Indoor plumbing dates back to at least 2500 B.C.

-Since 1963, more than 28 billion feet or about 5.3 million miles of copper plumbing tube has been installed in U.S. buildings. That’s equivalent to a coil wrapping around the Earth more than 200 times. The current installation rate now exceeds a billion feet per year.

-If a drip from your faucet fills an eight ounce glass in 15 minutes, it will waste 180 gallons per month and 2,160 gallons per year.

-The Earth has somewhere in the neighborhood of 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of water on the planet. Roughly 98% of our water’s in the oceans of the world, and therefore is unusable for drinking because of the salt content. That means only around 2% of the planet’s water is fresh, but 1.6% of that water is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Another 0.36% is found in very deep, underground sources – meaning only about 0.036% of the planet’s total water supply is found in lakes and rivers (our main supplies of drinking water)!

-A low flow toilet can save you up to 18,000 gallons of water per year.

These facts are something to consider next time you look at your water bill.

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Bath faucets are the faucets that are used in the bathroom, usually in the sinks. At times the words, bath faucets, can also be used to refer to faucets that are used in bathtubs, but these are usually called bathtub faucets instead. Bath faucets can be something that is nondescript and does not call attention to itself or it can be the focal point of the room.

Bath faucets are generally made out of metal and plastic, though some are made completely out of one material or the other. The least expensive bath faucets are made completely out of plastic, which means that the spout and the knobs or handles are plastic. More common varieties have metal spouts, usually chrome or nickel, and plastic knobs. Bath faucets often have built in drain stoppers, which is a metal piece that you can push down that will close the drain in the sink.

Most bath faucets generally come with handles or knobs, and both types can have either one or two of them. Some knobs are made out of a clear plastic. Some handles are metal, and others have plastic, porcelain or even wooden inserts. The spouts on bath faucets come in different styles. Some of them are short and straight, others are long and curvy, and you can find everything in between as well.

These items come in a number of different metal finishes. The most common ones are silver colored, such as nickel or chrome finishes, which are shiny. Satin nickel finishes are slightly less shiny. Darker metals like bronze tend to be less common and more expensive. You can even find bath faucets in metals like copper or brass, but these can be harder to find.

Some master bathrooms will have two sinks, and most people choose the same set of bath faucets to go on each sink. By doing this, the room’s overall style is more cohesive. Some people prefer antique bath faucets and these come in a wide variety of types. Antique can refer to the type of metal, usually antique copper or brass. Antique can also refer to the style of the bath faucets. For example, the bath faucets can have two handles, which are often labeled for hot and cold, and this is sometimes considered to be an antique style. Some antique styles even have two spouts. Some people prefer more modern styles, which are generally made out of silver-colored metals and have boxy shapes with sharp corners.