Wife needed a handhald shower unit due to some surgery. All the models I have found at the local Home Depot / Lowes are plastic junk and even with the water miser removed have crappy pressure. The old Moen (metal head) single unit I took off worked fine. Any recommendations?
You answered your question. I happen to have two new Cheap Home Depot brand ones, one super cheap, the other cheap, recently purchased for our new home. Its wasnt the "cheap" that we bought for it was for another reason.
1. they all are chromed plastic, if they weren't they would be uncomfortably heavy.
2. The last few years even the better ones have gone from stainless steel wrapped hoses to plastic hoses that are stupid stiff. They even make the hoses in the photos and packaging look like stainless steel by printing silver on them.
Which brings me to #3. Since the hose bothers me way more than the spray the spray will all be similar but not to say you wont find something you like better. Anyway, the Home Depo branded types still have a nice flexible stainless wrapped hose. Very impressive to me at stupid cheap price. As far as water flow, Im not sure any of them are the way they used to be, EPA or whatever but the hose bothers me more, anyway, if you find a good combination of what you like with the spray and hose let us know.
A perfect example of fake stainless hose is a photo in post #2 by
@ctechbob the hose is made to look stainless but its printed plastic hose. Dont get me wrong, this is my pet peeve, some might prefer the spray over the hose, it does look nice for those who dont care about the hose.