Cheap Hansgrohe 04231000 S Thermostatic Trim With Volume Control

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Useful stuff first: You will also need to buy a Hansgrohe iBox

Make sure you (or your installer) read the installation guide thoroughly before installing. My installer didn't and I had to go back and "fix" it, I'll explain later.

This shower control is very well made... most things are heavy gauge metal but operates smoothly. I agree that cheaping out on the cover plate with plastic is poor form. Mine has a small scratch already within 1 week. But the look of this is just plain awesome, very modern and shiny chrome baby!

Why spend extra money for thermostatic? Well, you or your kids won't get burned, that's why... I bought this for our kids' bath and love it.

The top dial goes left (10 o'clock position) or right (2 o'clock position) for tub / shower. Mine is left for tub and right for shower. But I think you can change it depending on the way your iBox connects to shower / tub. The bottom dial controls the temperature. Counterclock-wise for cold water, clock-wise for hot water. There is a small button on the left side of dial where you can push and turn the dial to hotter temperature beyond "thermostatic" setting.

My problem: My installer didn't pay attention to the temperature setting... Even at the hottest setting, we were only getting warm water at best. I opened up the bottom dial and adjusted it according to installation manual and then it worked like a charm. To adjust it, read the installation instructions or follow my less technical directions below:

1. Turn the bottom dial so that the hand points down at 6 o'clock position.

2. On the right side of the dial, there's a small access hole for an allen wrench. Turn the allen wrench counterclock-wise to loosen the dial. If your installer put a little rubber stopper in there, just push it in all the way and you can retrieve it later when the dial is off.

3. Once opened, there's a gold knob looking dial (it's the thing that sticks out). Find it.

4. Turn the top dial to tub or shower so you get water.

5. Turn the gold knob clock-wise or counterclock-wise to adjust the water temperature. The instruction says 100 degrees, I believe. I just turned it to the maximum temperature that I think my kids should shower at.

6. Turn the top dial to 12 o'clock to shut off the water.

7. Put back the bottom dial (pointing at 6 o'clock) via allen wrench.

8. Test it to make sure that it works.

The 6 o'clock position should be the hottest that you want the water to be... then push the little button the left and turn the bottom dial to 4 o'clock position, this should make the water even hotter... My wife showers at the 4 o'clock position but I think normal people will probably burn at this temperature, so I sent it at 6 o'clock for my kids.

Overall, I think this is a great product... well made with German engineering... but if they had included a metal coverplate (or will ship me one for free), I'll change it to 5 stars.

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Escutcheon (chrome cover plate) is made of PLASTIC!!! Yes, I said PLASTIC! For the hefty price tag, it should be made of real chrome-plated metal. Shame on Hansgrohe. I was under the impression they made top-notch stuff. For whatever reason they decided to skimp on this item.

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along with the iBox this thing seems to work great. The only problem i had was the need to have a friction ring shipped to me that is installed on the temperature control stem, along with the chrome base to the temp handle. What happens is the weight of the temp handle can be so great that it wants to return to the vertical position, so if you want a bit of cold the handle will slowly sayno you want hot, friction ring solved this 100%, customer service was extremely helpful solving this problem. 10/10 would buy again

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Goes very will with all of our other Hansgrohe products. Love the fact that you can set the bottom dial to the temperature and then the small dial at the top turns on the shower, so once you have the temperature you like you don't have to mess with it you can just turn it on and the water is perfect

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This is a beautiful product. The whole assemble is beautifully engineered. However it works opposite what you would expect for hot to cold But we are now use to it and love the temperature controls and no we did not reverse the input lines as we called the company to confirm