Keep your shower head clean

Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Technical Mercenary

While I had the vinegar out to clean the vaporizer, I thought it might be time to clean my shower head. After all in this world of water saving shower heads, it’s hard to find one that feels like it delivers enough water to do anything. I found mine on sale and love it, despite the fact it is still a water saver. So let’s do some maintenance to ensure it sprays good for a while.

Concept here is the same as the vaporizer. Use a vinegar and water dilution, this time in a zip top bag (gallon size for mine), and soak the head for a while. A 50% dilution should work fine. Let it sit for 15-30 minutes and check it. If your vinegar has lost its punch, you will stop seeing bubbles from the deposits. My shower head didn’t have a lot of build up yet, just enough to annoy me, so it took less than 30 minutes. When done it came out clean, no need for anything crazy like power washing. Just rinse and re-attach. If you have bad build up, a stronger solution of vinegar or perhaps some lime busting cleaning supplies might be in order. While you have the shower head off check the threaded inlet and see if there is a filter screen. Mine had one that just took a twist or two to unthread. Go ahead and clean that by rinsing while you have the shower head off. Check to see if you have a rubber seal in the inlet, and it’s condition, and when you re-attach, use thread tape a needed. Simple….