Rehausse de douche vintage en laiton avec enceinte rectangulaire Kingston

Plain and simple, this can't be used as is. The "engineers" who designed this must be fired. The shower curtain ring is held in place at two diametrically opposite points by brass attachments to two long vertical poles, one the shower riser and another the ceiling support. What were they thinking? This design would be right at home in a museum of engineering failures. Even if the whole thing were made out of high performance ultra-high strength aerospace alloy, there is no way you can achieve any kind of stability with such "design". And this product is made of mediocre brass held together by tiny screws of even lower quality. Because the set screws are so tiny and the brass is soft, they can't even hold the contraption to the ceiling, it will eventually slide out from the ceiling bracket under its own weight. I don't complain, because I knew what I was getting into, but anyone else - beware. I set it up properly with 3 additional supports - 2 to the wall (normal to the direction of the existing wall support) and one to the ceiling, see the first picture. If you don't do it, the shower ring will swing around its two flimsy support points, until something breaks (soon enough). In fact, I may actually add another ceiling support. Also, you need to replace the set screws for the ceiling support rods with longer ones and drill holes in the ceiling support rods for these screws to go through. This way your ceiling support won't rely on tightening of those screws in the soft thin brass brackets, eventually stripping the threads. Obviously all this came at significant extra costs and time spent re-designing this monumental engineering failure. Finally, keep in mind that as is, it was meant to be used ONLY with the riser coming out of the faucet that is inside the tub. If your riser comes out of the deck around the tub, as was my case, then you will need to design a separator between the riser and the ring, to offset the shower curtain ring away from the riser (see the second picture), meaning more additional parts and work. All of it took a while, and I had the necessary tools and skills. It beats me, though, how come the folks at Kingston Brass can't design what fundamentally is a very simple product.