The shower in our MH gets well used, but recently I have noted that less & less water coming out of the actual shower head and more dribbling out of the lowest loop of the hose.
I identified what I thought was a replacement hose on EBAY and it was waiting for us when we arrived home this afternoon.
Unfortunately it appears to be the wrong size thread to screw onto the shower head, so I searched YouTube and eventually found this video....
Armed with this knowledge, I disconnected the shower hose, after switching the pump off, and proceeded to dismantle it as shown in the video. It wasn't as easy as was shown, but eventually got it sorted. The only thing I would add is that the inner tube shown on the video appeared to be more rubbery whereas mine was a clear, more rigid, plastic tube and proved to be very difficult to get the newly cut end on to the 'nipple'. I tried dipping the tube in hot water, and putting liquid soap on for lubrication, but as soon as the tube cooled it went very rigid again.
I overcame this by using a hairdryer and working the tube onto the nipple in the stream of hot air. Once on and removed from the warm air, the tubing shrunk onto the barbs.
Connected it up again and it seems to be working without leaks.
It may be that the shower hose is the original, so 13 years old and the inner tube has become brittle and it may leak again in the future.
I was surprised by the amount of 'spare' length of tube inside the 'chrome' outer allowing me to cut and refit the tube. I had to use long nose pliers to grip and recover the inner tube from the chrome outer.
The image below shows from left to right,
a, The cut end of the remaining inner tube
b, The sacreficial piece cut off to square the tube
c, The broken off piece (that was attached to d.)
d, The nipple.
I am presuming that the enlarged tubing, once stretched over the barbs of the nipple, acts like an olive in a compression joint, when the outer nut is screwed on to the thread of the showerhead?
I identified what I thought was a replacement hose on EBAY and it was waiting for us when we arrived home this afternoon.
Unfortunately it appears to be the wrong size thread to screw onto the shower head, so I searched YouTube and eventually found this video....
Armed with this knowledge, I disconnected the shower hose, after switching the pump off, and proceeded to dismantle it as shown in the video. It wasn't as easy as was shown, but eventually got it sorted. The only thing I would add is that the inner tube shown on the video appeared to be more rubbery whereas mine was a clear, more rigid, plastic tube and proved to be very difficult to get the newly cut end on to the 'nipple'. I tried dipping the tube in hot water, and putting liquid soap on for lubrication, but as soon as the tube cooled it went very rigid again.
I overcame this by using a hairdryer and working the tube onto the nipple in the stream of hot air. Once on and removed from the warm air, the tubing shrunk onto the barbs.
Connected it up again and it seems to be working without leaks.
It may be that the shower hose is the original, so 13 years old and the inner tube has become brittle and it may leak again in the future.
I was surprised by the amount of 'spare' length of tube inside the 'chrome' outer allowing me to cut and refit the tube. I had to use long nose pliers to grip and recover the inner tube from the chrome outer.
The image below shows from left to right,
a, The cut end of the remaining inner tube
b, The sacreficial piece cut off to square the tube
c, The broken off piece (that was attached to d.)
d, The nipple.
I am presuming that the enlarged tubing, once stretched over the barbs of the nipple, acts like an olive in a compression joint, when the outer nut is screwed on to the thread of the showerhead?