Reinforced Shower Hose - White

Most hoses are chrome or black. This one is white from end to end: spiral, hex nut at the mixer end and ring at the handset end. Against white ceramics, with a white mixer or handset, it almost vanishes from sight.

It also suits a Scandinavian-style bathroom or a child's shower with light-coloured accessories. The one thing to watch is that white shows marks from coloured shampoo or dark soap, which a rinse at the end of the shower removes. It also avoids the contrast of a dark hose on a light wall.

The supplier's photo is headed "Reinforced coating" and announces a sheath that withstands wear linked to high temperatures and leaks. The spiral of tight rings protects the tube that carries the water, on the inside.

In practice, the rings let the hose turn and bend when you unhook the handset, without forming a kink that would cut the flow. If your current hose is split, swollen or drips at a nut, this is the type of part that replaces it, without touching the rest of the shower. It is a wear part, changed without regret when it has had its day.

At 1.50 m, it connects a wall-mounted mixer to a handset on a bracket or sliding rail, at adult height. For a bath where you rinse sitting down, check the distance, as the handset must be able to come down to you.

The thread is not stated; the most common in showers is 1/2″ (15x21). You can do the replacement alone: water off, old hose unscrewed, flat washer in each nut, hand-tightened. No plumber and no drilling. Then turn the water back on and run a finger under each nut: if it stays dry, you are done.