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Q: How to bring a 'Sit Down' Shower into the 21st century! 
Hello, my name is Tracy and and I'm renting a room in a house in Ireland. My problem is: The bathroom has what I'd call a sit-down shower, originally there was no shower, just a tub but now there is a nice set-up of a rubber hose which has ends which connect to each of the faucets (hot and cold) and then they connect to a long rubber tube that has the showerhead on the end of it. If you lift the shower- head above your head you can see where once there was a fixture which held it at just the right height so that it would be a great, normal, stand-up shower, however, for whatever reason this is now non-existent. This fixture was stuck onto the plastic covering for a vent. So my challenge is, how to get it to be a stand up shower again, there needs to be something to hold the shower head up, and if it needs to be stuck to the wall, it's going to have to hang onto the plastic vent covering. Help!!! Any ideas?? -- Tracy Gauwitz Reply   (Ref:0368)

A: four alternatives for you Tracy !
1 see if your Landlord will supply a new shower, usually the lease requires the landlord to maintain or repair the dwelling in a suitable manner.
2. ok he won't ?! The attachment is replaceable at your nearest hardware store at a modest price 
3. cant afford that ? very well how about buying a plastic hook at the store that has double sided adhesive on the back sticks to most smooth surfaces ( don't put weight on it for 24 hrs though )
4. desperate? ok get a wire coat hanger ! hook the hook end through the vent, then stretch the rest down wards, wrap in a spiral around the shower head so it holds the hose without kinking it costs nothing !
5. oh if all else fails EMIGRATE! -- REDI  

Reply from Author : Thank you! Thank you! Will definitely try a couple of the options you've sent! I am definitely not emigrating! Life is fabulous here even with the shower in the condition it's in! -- Tracy Gauwitz--  

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