Customer Reviews

Oxygenics 80227 TriSpa Handheld Shower, Chrome

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This product does what I bought it for: increase the speed and force of low water pressure. BUT...it has a lot of room for improvement. I don't believe a word of claims it improves your health, and the ergonomics are poor: The product itself is big and unwieldy, and the smooth handle makes it near-impossible to handle when it's soapy. Also, the hose should be at least a foot longer, maybe more if you use a shower chair, as I do.

This particular model has three setting. The powerful jet (the patented feature which it is all about) is great. It really feels like the water is powering dirt and soap from your body and out of your hair (it's kind of like the twist nozzle on a garden hose. When you turn to close it the water flow reduces, but the water feels more harsh if you hold it against your skin). The other two setting (while they are probably as powerful as any other shower head) actually feel weak by comparison to the jet setting. The "Hydro Flow" setting (or as I like to call it "the Bubbles") feels very nice and is great for sensitive areas you may not want to expose to the jet (e.g. the face or maybe an injury). The third setting is just streams of water coming out of the nozzles that form the outer most ring. Personally, I don't really see the need for that setting. The only thing I don't like about the shower head is it's size and weight. Even though I tightened it as hard as I could, the weight of the showerhead actually forces it to droop when attached to its holder.

I own a body spa, a tri spa, and a five star resort shower from Oxygenics. I only cared about environmental benefits at first. Flows a 1/2 to 1/3 the pressure, using that fraction in water use and in my case natural gas for my one pass heater. Ends up saving me around 15 bucks a month in water and gas costs. Now, that said, it's an awesome shower, with superior pressure and confort. Elegant build. And I know it will pay for itself in around 3 months. Great gift idea too...

You choose.... environmental or confort benefits. In this case they are both big, and not contradictory.

I got this shower head to replace a similar one that was white & silver. My fixtures had been changed to the oil-rubbed bronze and I needed a removable shower head that matched. The finish is more coppery than dark but it still blends with my fixtures. The shower head of this set is very large which is nice for showering but if you do a lot of hand-held showering (pets, kids) it could be a problem. The only disappointment I had with this set is the water hose that is attached. On my old set, the hose appeared to be banded around the hose from top to bottom with a metal type reinforcement strip made into the hose which I am sure reinforced it as well as made it look more expensive. This set comes with a solid brown plain hose which looks a little cheap.

This is our second oxygenics shower head in our house. We have a private well and our water pressure is less than a municipal water supply. This is the only shower head that works well with limited water pressure.

I bought this and was excited to get it yesterday! It was so easy to put up. Now the bad news...I am 5'7 and the shower head is soooo high. The water sprays all over the wall and shower door. I was not trying to get my hair wet but it got wet anyway. I think because of the height of the shower head, it just has too wide of a spray. The outside holes are the "shower" part and I wish that some of the inside holes also sprayed water. To me the spray was too lite. My husband did not care for this either. The shower head is bulky also! I am returning this...

My house was built in 1959 and suffered from relatively low water pressure. I replaced the standard shower fixtures with this unit and discovered that the air assisted blast mode is perfect for low water flow systems.

Basically, it uses the motive force of the streaming water to inject air back into the flow as it enters the shower head. This causes an increase in volume, and serves to conserve water while giving you the best water flow possible.

I am a 41 year old male, and this shower is shared by four women - my wife and three daughters. They all love it.

Interestingly enough, I recently had some plumbing work done and replaced the water line from the city meter to my house. It was an old galvanized line that was full of mineral deposits to the point where about 3/8" was all that was left for water to flow.

The end result is that I no longer have low water pressure. In fact, I think I need to slow it down at the entry to my house because I have had a few incidents around the house involving plumbing fixtures exposed to the increased pressure:

1. The mechanisms in my toilets have went nuts. They went from working fine to constantly running. I think the pressure increase shifted the balance point and now I have to tweak them all the time.

2. The hose that runs from the shower head to the wall recently sprang a leak, luckily I had bought two of these items to install in another shower (but did not yet) and had an extra hose on hand. I am now ordering a third one as a back up, so be aware there may be some issues with the hose - as sturdy as it seems.

That being said, this shower gets used at least four times a day by people ranging from 7 to 41. Its always getting dropped, and twisted and banged against something because my daughters are clumsy and my wife is not much better.

But all of that is simply my job - to keep the house running as it should. All they care about is how the shower performs, and they all love this particular shower head and that says a lot for them because the four of them can rarely ever agree on anything.

I have noticed that all four of us can take a decent shower with a lot of hot water (and the teenager always uses way too much time), and we have never came close to reaching the end of our 40 gallon water heater.

And so, with the increased pressure - it appears this shower head is saving us money by conserving water.

And I like that.

This shower head is incredibly easy to install, under 2 minutes if you can reach your shower and its not too tight. Comes with sealing tape if you need it. BUT, the best part is the water pressure in the trimode (all three at once) as well as the massage modes. If you have any people who are dirty in your life and the they need to bring the excitement of the shower time into their life. THIS IS THE PRODUCT FOR YOU!!!! I thought the deals they have are rather reasonable as well for something this good!

This is one item I am totally happy with. There is no doubt that this head uses less water. Living in a mobile home and having a very small hot water heater, I frequently ran out of hot water before taking a long shower. Since using this head I have never ran out of hot water. There is no noticeable loss in pressure or feel of water coming out...at any setting. The center setting, which my wife and I call "the powerwash" setting, works the best. I have low to average water pressure to start off, and this setting is great. So there is no doubt this unit is using less hot water and less water in general.

I have also used this head in a house with very low pressure. It does help over the standard shower head, however with average pressure this unit does much better. What ever your situation, Im sure you will notice what appears to be increased water flow, all while using much less water.

The shower head is quite big for a hand held unit, however much lighter than what it looks like. It takes a little to get use to using it.

The only negative thing I can say about this, which has been said already is the cheap hose that comes with it. Not to mention it leaked right out of the box for me. Returns are never a problem with Amazon, however I didnt even bother getting a new one since it was so cheap looking. I used my old one. Unlike the hose the shower head has a very nice bronze finish, why they included such a cheap looking bronze hose I dont know.

Have been pleased with the purchase thus far. Mainly bought to conserve water. Also liked the claim that whatever material was used to make shower head would NEVER clog due to mineral deposits. Our old shower head would need to be soaked in CLR every couple of months. Have not had the Oxygenics long enough to know if that claim is true or not, remains to be seen. As far as the claim that this shower head has so much more oxygen and all the health benefit claims, not sure on that one. A shower at 6 in the morning is never exciting or invigorating so those claims are a bit of a stretch. But, overall I have been pleased with product so far.