Follow-Up Friday: Waterpik EasySelect Showerhead
I’d like to post an update to my Waterpik EasySelect Showerhead review. When ModernMom.com sent this to me late last spring, I hadn’t done very many product reviews, nor had I really tried a hand-held showerhead, so it was definitely a good experience for me in every way.
Over time, because the water supply in our area is pretty hard, mineral deposits built up and partially clogged the showerhead’s holes. This meant less water pressure, so I took the showerhead off to clean it. During the process, I decided that I would install it on the shower in our other bathroom, so I just put the old showerhead back in our master bathroom’s shower. And yes, I did in fact keep it all this time because I rarely throw anything away. We all have our pet tendencies, and mine is hoarding.
Anyway, the EasySelect never actually made it back on a shower. I couldn’t install it in our other bathroom due to the fact that the showerhead that’s already in there is STUCK. I mean, it’s not budging for anything. But I didn’t find this out until after I had already replaced the old showerhead in the master bathroom. Ugh. This is turning into a longer-than-I-intended story.
My whole point here is that after using the EasySelectfor nearly a year, and then going back to my original showerhead, I feel like I can fairly compare them. Now, I think the showerhead that originally came with the house is a Moen, but I’m not sure. Either way, it looks like this:
While it doesn’t offer anything other than a strong, flat-out spray, it has a lot more pressure than the EasySelect. Frankly, I was amazed by the force of the water pressure the first time I used it after re-installation. I would much rather have too much water pressure than a weak, dribbly stream. I know it’s probably all in my mind, but I just feel like I get cleaner and better rinsed when there’s a strong blast of water washing me.
The EasySelect still has all the advantages I mentioned in my original review of it, and now that I have the mineral deposits cleaned out it should work better. Plus, I notice that it uses a LOT less water. I guess that’s because it doesn’t product nearly as much pressure. This may not matter so much now that the weather is getting warmer, but with the old showerhead back on, we’re now running out of hot water much sooner. Really, we didn’t ever run out of hot water with the EasySelect, not even when we all took our showers right after each other. So, from a conservation and water-bill-budgeting standpoint, the EasySelect seems like the smarter and more eco-friendly option.
So, I’m now trying to decide if I’m going to keep it there or put the EasySelect back. I’ll probably leave everything as is for now, but I can see me reinstalling the EasySelect. I do miss the advantages of a hand-held showerhead and the massager spray option.
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