Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 3 days later: My life has changed, my showers are now so fantastic I have to have a cigarette after I get out and I don't even smoke!!! I went from dribble to Niagara Falls!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again!!!!! BTW whoever invented the shower restrictor should be sent to Guantanamo Bay and use a shower with two restrictors!!
I was about to walk out to door to return this shower head to Lowes due to having no water pressure in the wand. I decided to look at youtube and found this very useful video to solve the problem. I'm thinking the manufacturer should compensate the creator of this video for saving them thousands of returns.
They know full well what their product is doing and why it gets returned. They're probably secretly pleased about videos like this but can't openly admit that they actually want you to remove the eco-friendly water "saving" device. (Can't waste the water if it stays in the pipe!) I think it would be cute to see them come through with a channel sponsorship, though.
From one DIY RU-vidr to another, thank you so much. This proved very helpful. I thought that all new a shower heads were garbage in the name of saving water. I ended up getting a generic one from China that had great pressure, apparently it didn't have a restrictor. It broke and while looking at reviews someone mentioned removing a restrictor. I bought a new shower head, looked up how to remove it and found your video. I have a happy wife again. Thank you!
Thank you. I love the shower head but needed more water pressure. I was going to take back if the water restrictor could not be removed. You do a great job demonstrating this!
Thanks for the simple yet very effective video, I just bought this shower last week and was disappointed with the water flow, but not after watching your video. Thanks again.
Thanks for the tip and it absolutely worked! I bought this same shower head at my old house, where the water pressure was great and I didn't have to take out the water restrictor. That said, I purchased it again at my new house and was extremely disappointed when I saw how the lack of water pressure made the biggest difference in my whole showering experience. After taking out the water restrictor I only have (2) words......I'M BACK!!! Thanks again.
An update on some design changes, possibly because this video is six years old. My restrictor was blue, not green, which is minor but could maybe confuse non-technical folks. When I tried to pull it out with pliers, the little tabs broke right off. Other comments suggest unscrewing the piece that holds the restrictor and pushing it out from behind, which wasn't possible as mine was a solid molded piece. Instead I forced a pointy screw in to the restrictor just far enough to grab hold firmly. Then I used that as a handle for my pliers to yank the restrictor out. The fix works GREAT, it changed from a pathetic trickle to a shower that we have to be careful where we aim it so there's somewhere *not* in the spray to get soapy. --Review note for anyone researching this hard before purchase: This showerhead does not have a pulsing massage feature. There is a good strong stream that can be focused from the handle head that can relieve sore spots. However it does not have that BRR-BRR-BRR-BRR pulse that is so popular with the ladies for reasons I'll explain when you're older.
I had the same issue, blue one, tabs broke etc... My solution was the same as yours, I drilled a wood screw into the restrictor and used that to pry out.
Easier solution: all you actually need to do is remove the tiny little rubber washer inside the flow regulator. I was amazed at the increase in pressure just from doing that and exposing the intake holes that the rubber ring is normally covering...instead of the water barely reaching the middle of my shower, it now hits the opposite wall--the pressure is almost too strong based on what I'm used to. By the way, I first tried removing the entire restrictor (mine is also blue) in the Delta showerhead with needle nose pliers, and all four tabs just broke off when I pulled on them--and there was no way that was coming out for me. But, from my experience, removing the whole piece isn't even necessary.
Thanks for the screw trick! The green tabs on the restrictor were too soft and pulled right off. Though once those were off the black ring was easier to get out. Then I used a screwdriver to insert a screw a couple of turns into one of the holes on the outer ring. Pulled the screw out with some pliers and the restrictor came out easily with it. Trickiest one of those I've encountered!
I just purchased this shower head today, to replace some ANCIENT came with my house 10 years ago no name shower head. At first spray I thought, there is no way my wife will like this! Search on youtube and found this video and in 2021 the restrictor is blue but identical and it was simple to remove exactly as shown. After re-installation and a quick test... I am forecasting a happy wife in the morning! Thanks!
@@cajunomics3 the one restrictor as shown in the video affects the flow for both the head and the wand... 3 years for me and I still love the showerhead!
Worked like a charm. Didn't damage anything and kept the restrictor in case of warranty issues. Delta should be happy I did this because my other option was to return it. Thank you!
Thxs Cruiseman, I would have never thought you would be the one to fix my shower head, we just had our shower renovated and was able to use the shower for the first time today and was greatly disappointed in the Delta shower head, I was ready to call Delta or return the fixture back to Lowe's if I could figure out how to return it without ripping all the new tile work out, so with all that said we're both Goldwing riders from DFW area and I would have never guested you would fix my shower, because you have saved me hundreds in Honda DIY repairs, thxs for your help!
Good video - I just bought a new Delta shower faucet tonight at Home Depot. In my case the restrictor was in the shower wand inlet connection. It was stubborn but I punched out the middle and used a pick to get it out. I live in Michigan - The Great Lakes State - so we have no water shortage issues. :) Thank You!
Good video. I found just removing the small O ring from the restrictor was enough to make a huge difference. Simply remove the o-ring that has the mesh, save it, remove the tiny o ring from the restrictor, and replace the o-ring with the mesh
Wow! Thank you Cruiseman!!! I have been going crazy for a while now about the Delta In2ition shower head water pressure in my 1st floor bathroom. I have the same shower head in the 2nd floor bathroom which has great water pressure. I was thinking it was some shut off valve probably not open all the way somewhere in the pipe chain causing the issue. Did a quick search to find out about the US market requiring these restriction valves in all shower heads. This saved me buying a new shower head due to years of it being crap pressure. I can only have one feature on just to get ok pressure. If I had both the fixed and removable head on it was useless. Many big thanks to you for making this video!!!
Thanks for the video. It helped me identify and remove (with difficulty) the evil restrictor on a year old delta shower head. I forgot how much water pressure we really had.
I bought a similar one and was very disappointed with the water pressure and was just about to take it back when i decided to do a quick search to see if others had the same problem and came across this video. I tried this method but ended up breaking two of the tabs trying to pull the water restrictor out. I guess they figured out what people were doing. What worked for me is taking out the O-ring that's in the restrictor and the water was flowing freely. Even the pressure from the hand held was better. So I guess I'll keep it now. It doesn't know how close it came to being put back on the shelf with his friends. Thanks for the video and the comments
My Delta In2ition model purchased March / 2020 was a bit different. It didn't have the silver mesh screen, so I felt that maybe the restrictor with the little holes could double as the screen. So I just took the little rubber o-ring off the restrictor as others have suggested and the pressure is still fabulous. Thank you for the comments and tutorial! :)
I bought one of these shower heads and was surprised at how restricted the water flow was. Called Delta Faucet Customer Service and he strongly suggested I not remove the water restrictor. Right. Followed this video and was unable to pull the restrictor out with needle nose pliers so I followed christy y's suggestion and came at it from behind with a screw driver. POP...out it came. reassemble the unit including the screen and the shower seems to be flowing much better. Voided my warranty but who cares.
THANK YOU! We had an old version of this shower head that was 10+ years old that had great flow, we had to replace it and the new one was total garbage. Removed the regulator and it is actually good now! I checked my old one and it didn't have any regulator in it.
Thank you for this video. We don't have high pressure in our master bathroom shower. Removing this gives my wife the water pressure she needs to washer her hair quickly. We do have to partially open the shower when I shower or when she doesn't wash her hair (so we use less water here in Arizona).
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I can confirm that a very similar model with metal connections instead of plastic has two additional flow restrictors in the handle. They are on the end that's near your hand when you hold it (actually in the handle not the hose). You first remove a three prong plastic piece (better not to try to use pliers but instead stick something blunt and sorta friction pry it up) then there are two flow restrictors that are stacked on top of one another. They can be removed with pliers or by sorta friction prying them up too. I found that their removal isn't as important as the removal of the one pictured here.
Thanks for the video! Since it didn't come out as easily as others I've removed, I wanted to see if anyone had luck removing it. I do this to all my showerheads. I conserve water in other ways and hate a low-flow shower.
on my shower head those plastic tabs broke off so I just removed the black o ring that you see without worrying about removing the rest of the plastic insert and it works great.
We have the newer version with metal fittings and only had one restrictive at the very neck where the shower head meets the pipe coming from the wall. Worked like a champ.
I used a 1/2" drill bit (twist drill not a spade) to drill out the green flow restrictor. By the time I got through what was left of the flow restrictor came out with the drill bit easily.
Followed you removal method and now the shower works great.I bought the HydroRain 5-Spray 6 in. Two-in-One Showerhead in Chrome and was ready to return it. Thanks for the help...
Thank you sooo much. I was about ready throw the thing out! There’s not a water shortage, but even if there were, not sure how me spending twice the normal amount of time standing under a drizzle would result in any reduction of use.
Thank you my friend! I just took my first shower with the most expensive shower head I've ever bought and was very bummed out that my cheapo shower head had better water pressure. Thanks again 😁😁😁
I have a 14 year old house with pex. Water pressure in general is not the best. I contemplated taking out just the o ring after breaking two tabs, but figured third times a charm and it popped out. Glad I took out the whole restrictor. If you have high water pressure around your house, taking out the o ring might be enough.
Thank you.... I am now clean for the first time in 8 years... California has a 1.8 gallon water limit on shower heads..... once i knew what i needed to do i went to home depot got a pair of needle nose piers and a drill.... i was scared to just break a 200 shower head... lol this gave me the guts to say ok lets do this...
Thank you so much... you saved me from miserably weak water pressure shower, now I can rinse our my hair quickly😆 Mine doesn’t have the mesh screen and the restrictor was blue.
Thank you! This video really helps as I wasn't sure if I just should remove the O ring or the entire green piece. I really hate these water saver devices. I think it's a poor approach to saving water and the shower head is almost useless with it in there as you can be standing in a low flow hot shower and still feel cold!
Great video! An easier way to take out the restrictor is the unscrew the whole ball socket and then poke a screwdriver through the back. Give it a light smack and the restrictor will be pushed out with minimal effort.
Thanks for posting. I am not handy when it comes to these things so I hired a guy to help me install this shower head along with a new cartridge. The idiot said it had no water restrictor and removed the filter instead. Then I stumbled onto this video. I never realized how easy it is to rip people off. But I learned something new and it will never happen again :)
Mine was stuck too. I heated up a paper clip and made a hole in the center of the green plastic. Then I heated up a wood screw that was about 2.5" long and screwed that into the starter hole I had made with the paper clip. That gave me something to grab onto and I yanked the damn thing right out :)
This worked for the model I have, which has a very wide shower head with no hose. I had to drill through and destroy the water restrictor to get it out, but not a problem.
funny, I did this on that exact shower head but i didn't think to pull it out I just busted it works a charm for the last few years! we have a good solid 60psi water pressure its nice to use it!
Thank you for this video!! I just installed the Delta In2ution as part of our bathroom remodel and was very disappointed with the water flow of this $150 shower head. My wife was especially disappointed as she said it was very difficult and time consuming to rinse her hair properly. I was at first concerned that Delta may have changed the water saving device design to make it more difficult if not impossible to remove. Fortunately the design has not changed although our water saving insert was blue instead of green. I did start to use needle nose pliers as you illustrated but then read the comment below about pushing it out from behind with a narrow screwdriver or similar tool. Our water saver insert was very firmly seated so pushing it out from behind saved me the frustration of having the tabs break off as others have experienced. Either way, so glad I found this site !! Delta truly needs to revisit having this water saving device in this shower head. Pretty much makes this rain like shower head useless IMHO and I can see where Delta probably has had many returns of this unit. I am all for environmental laws and conservation however, it is totally ridiculous to have to stay in the shower 4 time longer just to get an adequate shower. I can understand why this device may be helpful in drought stricken areas, however here in Northeast Ohio we have absolutely no water shortages. Thanks again for this video and for the ideas of those that commented below!!
Did your unit come with the Rubber Gasket Filter? I just purchased two of these for my new home and neither of them has the filter. I'm trying to determine if I need to buy one to put in it or if it's no longer necessary.
@@GeeklecticSPW Great question Stephen! You inspired me to go and disassemble our In2ution shower head to see whether or not our unit had the rubber gasket filter you mentioned. The answer is that the rubber gasket filter is located at the point where the entire shower head attaches to the pipe coming out of the wall. In other words, before it enter any portion of the In2ution shower head which makes sense considering water coming from the main supply source is screen filtered before it enters either the outer ring portion of the shower head OR the handheld portion of the shower head. GREAT OBSERVATION of this video as it DOES show the rubber gasket screen filter at the HANDHELD portion of the combined shower head. MY In2ution does NOT have a screened filter at this junction and it only has a rubber gasket. Not sure why the unit in this video has a screened gasket filter here as it would be totally redundant and not necessary assuming there is a screened gasket where the wanter first enters the In2ution. Had me concerned there for a minute Stephen but thanks for pointing this out. I would not want the shower head to be without some sort of filter especially considering I removed the entire flow restrictor. That restrictor in itself would become easily clogged. We are SO MUCH happier with our unit now that the flow restrictor has been removed. Hope this helps some.
@@JCGray52 Yeah, I wonder if they just moved it. The ones I purchased don't seem to have it in either location, but I did go to Amazon and buy a pack of them for $5 and figure if it isn't there when I go to change it, that I'll just add one. We're closing on a house this week and my first order of business once we get in there is to change the shower head and take a good shower! haha. Thanks for going back and checking!
@@GeeklecticSPW Wondering how it went for your Delta In2ition shower head? I just purchased one that doesn't have the screen attached to the rubber gasket also. I'm planning on removing the water flow restrictor but as you pointed out....is the screen important to have to reduce debris in the water? Did you replace the rubber gasket with a screen? Is the screen built into the rubber gasket or can I just add a screen? I hope I'm making sense. This whole business of a water restrictor is infuriating. I understand conserving water but how does taking a longer shower because the pressure is so low, saving water? I'm also mad that the shower head is all plastic. My old In2ition was metal. Sorry about the rant. But could you please let me know how your experience turned out.
@@pupperlover6141 I didn't end up putting a screen in and it's been fine. Granted, I'm in a new house with new pipes and a filtration system before the water hits the house - so I'd probably still recommend getting the gasket and adding it. I will say that the pressure without the water flow restricter is very strong. My shower head is at 7 feet and I'm 6 feet tall and I feel like if I were any closer to the head it might honestly be too powerful, so the screen might also help make up for that. I bought a pack of rubber gaskets on Amazon for like $5 or so and they are the rubber gasket with a screen built in. So it's a relatively inexpensive experiment if you want to try it out.
Thanks.......I’ve gone thru 2 of these in 5 years. The button stops working and you can’t adjust the difference sprays, any ideas? These are 2 access holes in the handle, how do you Open them? Jim
I removed the flow restrictor and let me tell the pressure is so strong!! It reminds me of the episode in Seinfeld when Kramer and Jerry were looking for a powerful shower head. I’m going to have my wife try it out. It might be too strong!! It so strong you can use it as a dental pick! I’m going to buy another one and keep it in the garage if this one gets corroded. This is one of the best shower heads with a wand that has so much flow!! You won’t be disappointed!!! Thanks for the instructions about removing the flow restrictor. Can you tell us why there is a screw where the tubing connect for the wand? Is that a flow restrictor too?
I bought a couple of these only a couple of months ago and worked perfect until I noticed the Control which allows you to have Hand Held Jet, Hand Held Shower and other functions stop working all together. I am no longer able just to have the Hand Held Working as Jet or Normal as the main Head also works at the same time. Any idea what has gone wrong and how I can fix it??
can someone help me understand where this piece is in relation to the hand held part vs. the neck of the pipe that comes out from the wall? I took off the hand held part and there was no plastic restrictor piece to be found, only one black O ring. I am really hoping I just took off the wrong part and that I can find it in the neck part? Thanks for any help...wish I could post a pic of what I am describing here. I have the Delta In2ition Two-in-One 4 Spray 6" dual wall mount fixed and handheld unit. Thanks for any tips.
All four tabs broke off mine so I used a 5/16 drill bit and drilled through the plastic center. Then I used a screwdriver/hammer combo to hack out the leftovers.
I tore off the tabs as well, couldn't get it to budge. But you can use tweezers to just take out the black rubber o-ring in the middle of the flow restrictor. This increases the flow as well.
I have installed a new In2uition showerhead. Brand new. I removed the water restrictor, but the inner part (handheld portion) barely puts out any water. It seems that it should have more power. Flipped the knob and nothing at all on most of the settings and the only one flag works is just a small amount - Any ideas?!
This simple method no longer works on the newer shower heads. Manufacturers have added a shoulder under the water sediment strainer that makes it so the flow restrictor cannot be pulled out. I found that simply holding the shower head up toward the ceiling and drilling a hole through the center of the flow restrictor (not the sediment screen) defeats the restriction sufficiently, I used a 5/32" drill bit. The reason for aiming at the ceiling with the drill is so debris from the drilled plastic does not block the shower head holes. If the shower head is dry, the debris can be tapped out before running water through it.
Pushing out the flow restrictor from behind with a small screwdriver worked well on our 2021 Delta In2ution. I agree that pulling it out with needle nose pliers may no long be possible however using the screwdriver from behind giving it a sharp quick blow of the handle agains a work bench works fine. The flow restrictor in our model was blue and not green.
I've done that on all mine over the years, but thought I'd try it out to see just how restricted it was. And it was horrible,..let me tell ya..if you just bought one of these as I did, remove it. It does not save water but it does waste your time because it would take 3x as long to take a shower, the way to save water is to use the pause (which it has) and suds up while it's off. Just heard on the radio today the gov. fixed the newer dishwashers the same way, it takes over 2 hours to do a load of dishes, and you need to cycle them 2x..sorta like the new 1.5 gallon toilets which have to be flushed 2x. I'll remove it in the morning and report back, I'm so tired now after trying to take a shower for the last 3 hours, the water was evaporating at a faster rate than it was flowing. It was like a pin sized hole in a water balloon, it was about the same as the squirt that comes out of your mouth when you salivate.
For people that don't have great hand strength, which is needed to remove the blue water restrictor, you might want to drill out a hole in the center and then use a crochet hook to get the whole thing out. I couldn't hold the needle nose pliers firmly enough to get it out, but the crochet hook option worked great.
