How to Install a Sprite Shower With a Ball Socket Shower Head

Ball socket shower heads swivel in all directions when you move them, but they tend to be found in older homes. If your shower head is dated, you can replace it with the Sprite shower head. This shower head includes a filter and a removable arm and hose for cleaning hard-to-reach places. To install the new Sprite shower head, you have to remove the old ball socket head from your shower first.

Wrench
Teflon tape

Instructions

- 1
  Place the wrench around the bolt at the base of the ball socket shower head. Turn the wrench counterclockwise to loosen the bolt that holds the shower head in place. Remove the shower head and bolt from the pipe.
- 2
  Wrap Teflon tape around the base of the shower pipe. Screw the hand-held bracket into the pipe with your hands clockwise.
- 3
  Screw the filter body into the pipe on the underside of the bracket. Place the rubber washers inside of the hose on each end and tighten the hexagon-shaped side of the hose onto the body of the filter.
- 4
  Screw the shower handle into the other end of the shower hose.

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