Valve placement in shower- how important is it to minimize elbows?

Hi all-

I understand that every bend in supply affects the (pressure? ) output at the shower head....

In our shower layout, we much prefer to have the thermostatic valve and two volume controls stacked in a column arrangement. It just looks a lot nicer in the space. But that will require more bends from valve to shower head and handshower. Specifically, in that arrangement 4 bends to main shower head and 5 to hand shower. if we arrange the valves differently, we reduce the number of elbows to 3 each, but it doesn't look as good.


Will we notice a difference?

 

Not at all.
The numbers of bends is not important, when you are talking about only one more.
Even when your pressure is bad.

h.t.h.
-david

 

Thanks!

Thank you guys!!! That is great news