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I really want to take super long showers, but I pay the water bill so.....
Fact is, the shower we have is.... Strange to say the least.
It's a wand. Only a wand. Most wand showers also hang up in a way that allows you to just, use it like a normal shower.... Not this one. I actually hate it, but don't have the budget to replace it right now, since it will likely need a partial renovation for the bathroom and that's our only shower, so everyone is going to get a bit stinky while it's reno'd.
What I want to do is to add a new bathroom with a shower/bath, then reno the current one, so we can shower during the reno.
Edit: before anyone else comments about how easy it is to change your shower head, I don't think you understand exactly how strange our shower is. There's nowhere to put a "normal" shower head. There's no pipe coming out of the wall at head-height that we can connect a shower head to. The wand literally goes into the wall of the tub when it's not in use (similar to how the sprayer things work on some kitchen sinks.... If you're familiar with that, but the controls are not just a button on the handle to turn it on, they're on the edge of the tub.
Weird enough for you?
I can see a cutout in the wall panel of the shower where the diverter should go, and it's not cut open. We will need to tear out about half of the wall panels to put in the diverter and a standard shower head connector thing.... I'm not a plumber, but the one we hired when the original hardware in the shower started leaking took about three days or more to find hardware to install that would work with the odd layout of it.
I know it doesn't really come across by text, so if you want some semblance of what I'm dealing with, the wand is a bit like this one... Or at least closer to this than what you have in your showers: https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/Bath-Rim-Pull-Out-Shower-Head.html
Yeah. I hate it.
You probably don't need a full renovation to replace a showerhead. I'm not good at much, but am vaguely competent with basic plumbing. Post a photo of the shower. Most likely you just need a wrench, a new shower-head, and some nylon tape. If you want to get fancy, they also make extenders so you can add extra showerheads without a renovation.
It's definitely not going to be that easy.
Let me describe what was there when we moved in.... So, the bathroom has a fairly typical tub, for the purposes of this explanation, we won't go into things that aren't directly relevant.... So for now, it's fairly typical. However, there's no hot/cold controls on the wall, there's a faucet on the corner of the tub basin, with a lever that acts as the diverter, two knobs for hot and cold and there's, what looks like a grab bar, but it actually is a specialty pipe for the existing wand, that actually has a mount for the wand so the shower can be used normally.
Well, without going into too much detail, I'm fairly certain that at least one person cranked on the diverter too hard (no idea why) and basically turned the insides into sand. So now there is a leak that's dripping into the lower levels creating water damage. We shut off the water. Called a plumber.
Thousands of dollars later, our replacement faucet/diverter is odd to say the least: there is no diverter. There's actually two water controls, one for the wand, one for the tub faucet. You control both independently. The wand, no longer has a place to mount, when not in use the flex hose for it retracts into the side of the tub, leaving the head of the wand sticking out of the surface.
For the shower itself, we have zero of the usual trimmings. There's no cutout in the wall for a diverter, there's no threaded pipe coming out of the wall above your head for a shower head. There's almost none of what you would expect.
What I expect, on order to unfuck this situation, is that we'll have to tear out the part of the wall where the diverter and temp controls should be, install a standard diverter box, run a line from there, up the wall to put in a standard fitting for a shower head, then do all of the plumbing to make it all go, which will require copper pipe soldering, something I'm not qualified to do.
Trust me when I say: if it were as easy as you originally thought it was, then this would not be an issue for me, and it would have been completed long ago.
I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful here. Thanks for that, but unfortunately I think this is over both of our heads as amateurs. As far as I'm concerned, half the shower needs to be pulled apart to fix this monstrosity.