Thursday, May 17, 2007

At ShowerStore.com, we speak from experience

One of ShowerStore.com’s founders, Henning Zieger, is a veteran of the plumbing category. In 1971 his father founded Interbath, Inc., which helped bring the handheld shower – popular in Europe – to America. Zieger grew up in a shower head factory – literally. He worked summer jobs making showerhead prototypes, developing tooling for new showerheads, and designing brochures and packaging to help sell showerheads. In 1991 he took the position of Marketing Manager and through 1999 helped grow and develop Interbath and its high-end brand Ondine. In 1999 he founded Genau Design & Development, LLC – a marketing and advertising agency based in Southern California and, in turn, started ShowerStore.com in August 2005.

“We know showers inside and out,” continues Zieger. “We’ve designed them. We’ve manufactured them. We’ve seen thousands of shower installations. We’ve seen all the problems and challenges of getting a good shower in the morning. ShowerStore.com allows us to speak directly with consumers and the trade to share the knowledge we have gained over the years and help people everywhere have a better bathing experience.”


However, not only do we have a technical background in shower heads but we also enjoy broadening our personal knowledge of individual products by experiencing the items we sell. The staff at ShowerStore.com will often bring home the products we use in our photoshoots and try them out for a day or two. We then discuss our experiences with the products, communicate the features and benefits we enjoyed in our product descriptions, and provide additional support to eliminate any problems or confusions we may have had during installation or use, either in the ShowerStore.com support section, in the ShowerStore.com blog, or as supplemental instructions when we ship out items.

This week, the ShowerStore.com staff had the opportunity to try out several handheld shower heads and shower heads from Great Vibrations by Interbath. Our experiences with these products were surprising.

One of our favorite products we tested was the Monterey Hand Held Shower Head Set. As far as handheld shower head sets, the Monterey is inexpensive ($11.97 – $14.97, based on finish and quantity purchased) and looks fairly unassuming. The curve in the handle makes this handheld shower an excellent alternative to a fixed overhead shower head on a swan or s-shaped shower arm.

The Monterey offers three spray functions, which is quite a bit less than many others out there. However, these sprays stood out among its competitors. The rainspray offered much better water pressure that a lot of other multi-featured handheld showers. Since the question, "how do I increase my water pressure?," is asked of us quite a bit, this was very noticeable. The Monterey handheld shower also features a Full-Cone full-body spray spray which eliminates the hollow center that many shower sprays have. The water pressure maintains its strength when switched to the combination spray. Often, combination sprays feel less forceful due to the increase in outlets for the water to flow through. The Mist spray is very pleasant and soothing, and leaves the skin with a slight tingling sensation when finished.

As we move forward and expand ShowerStore.com, we will continue to provide our customers with factual information based on our knowledge of and experiences with the products we sell in order to create a trustworthy and reliable shopping experience.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Water Temperature and Showers with Mist Spray Function

Consumers will often notice that it is sometimes difficult to have a really warm shower when using the mist spray function. This is normal. Mist spray functions release very fine droplets of water. Because the water droplets are so small, they are quickly cooled down by the surrounding air in the bathroom. Many users find this to be an exceptionally pleasing shower spray after exercise or on hot days. At ShowerStore.com, we discourage users of misting shower sprays from increasing the hot water flow while using this function because of the potential for scalding when switching to another spray with larger water droplets.

ShowerStore.com currently offers these shower heads and hand held shower heads with mist spray functions:

Misting Massage Shower Head by Waterpik Model MST-521

Misting Massage Shower Head by Waterpik Model MST-721

Malibu Hand Held Shower Head Set by Great Vibrations Model GC944WW

Malibu Hand Held Shower Head Set by Great Vibrations Model GC944CH

Malibu Shower Head with Hi-Lo Shower Arm by Great Vibrations Model GC040LWW

Malibu Shower Head by Great Vibrations Model GC040WW

Malibu Shower Head by Great Vibrations Model GC040CH

Monterey Wall Bar Set by Great Vibrations Model GC7624CH

Monterey Hand Held Shower Head Set by Great Vibrations Model GC924WW

Monterey Hand Held Shower Head Set by Great Vibrations Model GC924CH

Monterey Shower Head with Hi-Lo Shower Arm by Great Vibrations Model GC020LWW

Monterey Shower Head with Hi-Lo Shower Arm by Great Vibrations Model GC020LCH

Monterey Shower Head with 6-inch Shower Arm by Great Vibrations Model GC020FWW

Monterey Shower Head with 6-inch Swan Arm by Great Vibrations Model GC020SWW

The inventory at ShowerStore.com is constantly changing with new products and finishes being added all the time.

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Friday, March 23, 2007

ShowerStore.com improves to meet it's customers needs!

We've been very busy lately at ShowerStore.com bringing all kinds of changes to meet the needs of the people most important to us... our customers!

We have reduced the prices of all our existing items, bringing even more savings to our customers. We have also added 61 new products, many of them part of our all new accessories section, as well as adding more brands, including Hansgrohe, Great Vibrations, and the Ondine/Interbath RV Line. There are more shower heads and held held shower heads, as well as hand held shower head wall bar sets, shower hoses, shower arms, hand held shower mounts, and much, much more! Visit quickly, many items are in limited stock.

In addition to the increase of items we're now offering, we've also made the shopping experience easier for all our customers by now offering PayPal, American Express, Discover, and E-checks in addition to Visa and Mastercard.

Come visit us at ShowerStore.com!

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