Does this shower head need a ground wire?

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JohnfrWhipple

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I ordered it from EBay out of Columbia. It's an on demand shower head. The guy who sold it sad not to touch the shower arm once it is on. I'm thinking this shower head needs some kind of ground wire. Maybe a GFI protector.

What do you think? :)

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Could I just Kerdi it? lol

This shower head looks a little newer but still sketchy....​
 
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I like that the green wire is not used here. Why would you want a ground wire anyway in the shower?

OMG - my kids are never travelling without me!!!

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Studying the pictures you can see the trick with these units is to have a metal pipe for the water. And then tape the ground wire to it. So simple - so speedy...

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quote; you can see the trick with these units is to have a metal pipe for the water.

And hope you do not have a PEX or CPVC water system. The shower head is probably plastic and that might be the only thing that keeps the user alive. Especially when it was installed by "Clem from W. Virginia".
 

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My wife and I have a movie list we want our girls to see before travelling abroad.

1). Brokedown Palace
2). Taken

I'm adding a review of this discussion to the list

1). Brokedown Palace
2). Taken
3) Shower Safety when the shower head could kill you!
 

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just at the tail end of your shower you simply reach up and touch to turn on the instant full body dryer.....No towels or towel cleaning needed. Zappo and your dry.
 

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My wife and I have a movie list we want our girls to see before travelling abroad.

1). Brokedown Palace
2). Taken

I'm adding a review of this discussion to the list

1). Brokedown Palace
2). Taken
3) Shower Safety when the shower head could kill you!

How about Hostel? That'll make you want to keep them at home.
 

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Hostel.... Of Course.

Consider all three added to the list!

I had a friend over from Winnipeg years back. She has travelled and lived all over the world. Meet her on Grand Cayman when I worked there. She said one night at dinner - don't watch Hostel. As soon as she left I watched it. Sometimes I still cringe when I bang my heel and think of that guy getting his ankle tendon sliced!
 
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This is one reason why we have codes, developed over years, and if the inspectors are not totally idiots or on the dole, we don't have major problems here. That many people, even here, feel that if it works, it must be right, and why would I need a permit and an inspector eludes me. Many places outside much of US, Canada, and most of Europe, never heard of permits and inspections. Well, you can throw in Japan and Australia into that group where you're not likely to die from some yahoo that installed something.

In a trip to China once, in a new hotel, the chrome was peeling off the faucets, the building had shifted, and the doors needed a major push to close, and they could not keep the elevators running, not counting the cracks in the walls. Really scary. Stayed at an old hotel from maybe 100-years ago in Shanghai, and everything worked, even at that age - influence from England, way before the communists took over.

Lived in Jordan for awhile...the electrical power lines were just twisted together on the poles...arced at any hint of a wind or rain (luckily, didn't have much of that), and the voltage would swing all over the place.

Until you've seen some of this stuff, you don't appreciate what we have and just take it for granted.

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