New Tempesta Cosmopolitan Hand Shower 4 Sprays Chrome 27575002

Very good product gives you a lovely shower easy to clean

bought brand name,had buy extra wall fitting as advised by plumber,expensive but better so far than cheaper brands.early days not long fitted.

Very happy with the rail and shower head ,easy to install, however very disappointed the actual hose is a silver coloured plastic one ,really looks cheap ,ànd for the money not great value ,bought a cheap stainless steel replacement though .

We were looking for a multi setting replacement for our existing hand shower head. Pressure is pretty reasonable from a whole house 2.5bar pump and the existing head gives a good shower, plenty of pressure but fancied something with an intense/ Massage setting. Having spent quite some time looking at everything on offer we opted for the Grohe New Tempesta Cosmopolitan 100 , 4 setting handset 27575002. On initial fitting you will probably find the thread on the handle is slightly too short to compress the rubber seal on a standard flexi pipe, so water will pour out of this joint. All it needs is an additional rubber seal on the pipe fitting for a water tight seal, but Grohe don't even include a seal at all, which is poor I think. The description on amazon says the handset is brass but this is not true, its all plastic. This isnt necessarily a bad thing as the handset is very light, but it is misleading. So, initial try out. The first setting raino2, gave a fairly lacklustre spray, not as powerful as the old handset but spray was quite "soft" due to air being drawn into spray. The second setting, rain was even less impressive and seemed to have less pressure than the first. The third setting, "Jet" gives 8, thin powerful streams which some might find rather aggressive. The 4th setting "Massage" is supposed to be "a pulsating spray pattern for a stimulating massage". I can only describe this as pretty dismal, no pressure, coarse globs of water, no discernible pulsating. if the handset is mounted on a riser, at an angle then this spray pattern would only reach out less than 40cm horizontally. Grohe claim this shower head can deliver 2.5gall or 9.5l/min which should be fine although when I tested the delivery, the old shower head delivered 12l/min but the Grohe handset only delivered 5.6l/m, which explains why the performance was poor. Several people have said to remove the flow restrictor to improve things but even without the flow limiter the Grohe handset still only delivered less than 6l/m so they must have used a very high pressure pump to achieve the figures they quote. so, overall, the finish is fine, although it isn't brass but plastic. its quite stylish, the male thread to connect the pipe is too short. The shower experience on 3 of the settings, with a decent pumped supply was quite poor no doubt due to the limited flow rate, even without the restrictor. Its not as good as the much cheaper handset it was intended to replace so its going to be returned.

The shower head looks good and the pole is metal not plastic. But the angle of the head in the holder is fixed in an almost vertical position which is poor for this price. As other have mentioned the pipe is plastic and not even chrome silver coloured as expected but just a matt silver grey. Can be better product for half the price.