Fixed shower head problem

[jrhouston210]

Hi,
A bit of a strange question - I have a fixed head shower which drips.

After replacing flow valves and cartriges I realised that if I take the head off and just have the shower arm to which the head attaches then I find that the arm is holding water (due to the surface tension of the water I think!)Any vibration of the pipe makes water fall from the arm and therefore it seems like the showers dripping.

Anyone know how to get the water to completely drain from the arm rather than be held by the surface tension of the water or am I just stuck with shaking the arm until all the water has drained out after every shower!

Hope that makes sense! Not the easiest to describe
Thanks

 

[electronicsuk]

I'm not sure there's a lot you can do about it without allowing air in to release the vacuum that's holding the water in. My Aqualisa digital shower used to purge the shower head automatically in this way, but it seems a lot of time, effort and money to spend on resolving something that isn't really a problem. I guess it depends how much it bothers you!

 

[jrhouston210]

Thanks - its in my ensuite so if we dont stand and shake the head for 10mins a day it wakes us up at night - not sure where i'd even start to investigate/replace without changing the shower arm though and that would involve removing tiles/ wall panels etc. which is going to be a nightmare!
Cheers