On 12/11/2020 18:32:51, David wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:42:59 +0000, Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:

Our shower hose has just begun leaking so I have ordered a replacement,
but the head is looking rather tired too, so probably time that was
replaced too.

Present head is one of those with a selector for the spray mode, which
is never bothered with and has those rubberised nipple supposed to make
it easy to simply run a thumb over them to clear the lime scale build
up, except they eventually become rigid.

Going hard must take years. How old is it? Nothing lasts forever.

Anyone got a recommendation for a basic shower head, for use with a
mains pressure electric shower, which doesn't have the rubber nipples,
yet can be stripped down to to clean out lime scale?

No, but I do find the rubber nipples irritating.

I find they are very effective and the occasional maintenance in situ,
whilst having a shower, is very little trouble.

For a few years they are great (although we have a water softener so don't
need to clear lime scale) then they go hard and start squirting off in all
directions and you have to junk the head.

Ah, I don't have a softener.

[Those with dirty minds are no doubt already choking on their lager.]

I can't recall seeing a shower head without them recently.

I have and the shower head was pretty blocked with nothing you could do
about it.