Terrence (Todd) Love
New Member
Hi there,
I’m a homeowner and have been GC’ing my own part-time renovation (I hope I did. My primary worker is a retired master carpenter, and the project has been mostly fantastic; we've mostly rebuilt the entire house over the last 24-mos. At the moment, we are renovating the master bathroom. Admittedly, we have a very non-standard design in mind (but always for a reason). Anyway, I thought I had the infrastructure figured out, when I got a curve-ball from Delta. So I’d love to hear your collective expertise. Here’s the situation:
We are building a drop-in shower/tub combo. We want to have the diverter on the left wall, with non-primary waterfall head above it. The tub spout and primary shower head are on the opposite, right wall. After a mind-numbing amount of research, we settled on the Delta 17 Series Valve Trim with 3-Setting Integrated Diverter, based on a Delta R22000 rough-in. Everything was great until I noticed that Delta indicates that the R2200 cannot be used with a tub. Specifically, they say the following two things:
The R22000 unfortunately cannot be used for tub spout water supply because it does not have a bottom port for tub spout installation
&
We do not recommend to install a tub spout with the R22000 Integrated rough valve as the flow rate from the spout would be lower than a standard installation.
My question is, do I care? I don’t know squat about flow rates, but I can say that the tub will be used about once per decade. Do I really need a downward valve to run my plumbing to the primary shower and/or tub faucet? Here is what we had planned:
On the 3 port diverter, outlet 1 was going to be for the main shower. There would be a pair of 90-degree elbows coming off the diverter port, & the pipes would drop down the wall, run under the tub, and come up the other side.
Outlet 2 was going to be the tub faucet, and the piping would be the same.
Outlet 3 would be for the waterfall head, and the pipe would simply run upwards.
Seemed like a good idea to my non-plumbing expert mind. Despite Delta’s recommendations otherwise, is it a doable configuration?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
-Terrence Love (no relation)
I’m a homeowner and have been GC’ing my own part-time renovation (I hope I did. My primary worker is a retired master carpenter, and the project has been mostly fantastic; we've mostly rebuilt the entire house over the last 24-mos. At the moment, we are renovating the master bathroom. Admittedly, we have a very non-standard design in mind (but always for a reason). Anyway, I thought I had the infrastructure figured out, when I got a curve-ball from Delta. So I’d love to hear your collective expertise. Here’s the situation:
We are building a drop-in shower/tub combo. We want to have the diverter on the left wall, with non-primary waterfall head above it. The tub spout and primary shower head are on the opposite, right wall. After a mind-numbing amount of research, we settled on the Delta 17 Series Valve Trim with 3-Setting Integrated Diverter, based on a Delta R22000 rough-in. Everything was great until I noticed that Delta indicates that the R2200 cannot be used with a tub. Specifically, they say the following two things:
The R22000 unfortunately cannot be used for tub spout water supply because it does not have a bottom port for tub spout installation
&
We do not recommend to install a tub spout with the R22000 Integrated rough valve as the flow rate from the spout would be lower than a standard installation.
My question is, do I care? I don’t know squat about flow rates, but I can say that the tub will be used about once per decade. Do I really need a downward valve to run my plumbing to the primary shower and/or tub faucet? Here is what we had planned:
On the 3 port diverter, outlet 1 was going to be for the main shower. There would be a pair of 90-degree elbows coming off the diverter port, & the pipes would drop down the wall, run under the tub, and come up the other side.
Outlet 2 was going to be the tub faucet, and the piping would be the same.
Outlet 3 would be for the waterfall head, and the pipe would simply run upwards.
Seemed like a good idea to my non-plumbing expert mind. Despite Delta’s recommendations otherwise, is it a doable configuration?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
-Terrence Love (no relation)