Water spurts from the connection at the bottom of the hand held shower hose enabling simultaneous showering and an unwelcome foot bath. The hose feed screws on to a plastic threaded insert that in turn is screwed into the feed connection. At the bottom of the threaded insert is what looks like a back flow prevention system consisting of a flat white slotted plastic disc below a flat black rubber washer with a hole in the middle that has developed a spiral split around that hole. Cannot find a replacement washer anywhere nor any identity markings of the manufacturer. It is standard FT for that year. Any suggestions to repair or replace?
That is a anti-siphon (backflow preventer) valve. I got one at Foretravel because we happened to be there. I don't really see the need for such in this application, and given the ridiculous price on the item, would forego replacing it were it to fail again.
Don
We use standard brass parts to reduce and modulate water flow, and use a standard kitchen sink hand sprayer for our shower hose. The handle is always off unless we press trigger, so our water conservation is maximized. No more reaching up to close water flow, which we would not do all the time. Also all flow reducers & backflow preventers are gone.
Fiddler, the wall,fitting is called a shower wall elbow. Any color or price you want.
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The next part after that is the backflow preventer. It prevents you from sucking up water off the floor or from a bucket back into your water system. When we redid out shower I threw it away. Our shower head is never in a bucket of water or sitting on the floor. You just don't need it. Code probably required it to be installed when the coach was built.
The hand held shower hose will screw right on to the wall elbow.
OEM was Moen.
This is like what we got as I recall.
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You still need a wall elbow.
Problem solved. Unscrewed the hose from the elbow; removed the elbow from the wall; unscrewed the back flow spacer housing; reinstalled the elbow to the wall, then screwed the hose directly to the elbow. Thx Roger for describing the obvious fix; I just didn't see it right under my nose.
Hi Fidder,
Your description sounds like you need to replace the "shower vacuum breaker". Try looking on Ebay for it.
Jim
I replaced the vacuum breaker on ours, just went to a local plumbing supply, cost was minimal.