Can You Use Slide Bar & Hand-Held Showerhead As Regular Shower Delta Victorian?

Terminology

• Three distinct terms exist in this equation, “slide bar,” “hand-held shower head” and “Delta Victorian.” Hand-held shower heads are shower heads placed on flexible, rope-like pipes that you can detach from the wall and move around. A slide bar entails a vertical bar placed within a shower that holds a hand-held shower head. Slide bars come with mounting devices that slide up and down so you can adjust the height of a shower head on the bar. Delta Victorian is a line of products with an “antique” appearance produced by Delta. This line includes faucets, taps, handles, and shower heads.

Shower Stall

• You can easily install a hand-held shower head and slide bar as the only water source in a shower stall. This process entails little more than attaching mounting elements to the wall to hang the slide bar and hooking up the shower head to the water source. Hand-held shower heads used with slide bars usually connect directly to the wall, where they attach to the plumbing network that provides water for the shower. You must purchase and install an independent shower valve and handle for this setup.

Bathtub Shower

• Two types of bathtub showers exist, those mounted in walls and freestanding ones. The latter category usually only appears on freestanding, or claw-footed, bathtubs. Installing a slide bar and hand-held shower head with a claw-footed tub requires attaching a hand-held shower to your freestanding bath faucet, attaching a slide bar to the closest wall and hooking the shower head onto the slide bar. In a bathtub shower with plumbing mounted in the walls, you only need to attach a slide bar to the wall, set up a combination tub/shower valve and attach a hand-held shower head to the water supply pipe.

Delta Victorian

• The simple answer as to whether you can use a Delta Victorian hand-held shower and slide bar as a regular shower is yes, for both shower stall and tub shower situations. However, the Delta Victorian line has some limitations. While Delta produces hand-held shower heads in the Victorian line, it produces no Victorian slide bars. Therefore, you must independently purchase a slide bar and attach your Victorian hand-held head to the bar, which may lead to aesthetic inconsistencies. To complicate matters, most slide bars come with their own shower heads, so you will end up with an extra shower head.