Culligan HSH-C135 Hand-Held Filtered Massage Showerhead, 10,000 Gallon, Chrome

So far, we like it just fine. As mentioned in other reviews, the spray is a little straight-forward but the different settings will allow you to find something that will be live-able. The filter seems good and the water was fine (clean shower). We didn't have bad city-water before...but we like the idea that it will be even better now. The flexibility of the hand-held w/hose will be great with baby when she comes (later this year). Drawbacks might be that, as a hand-held, it is just a little bit heavy. However, we are looking forward to using it to clean baby either way. It seems that filter changing is quite easy. Probably a person should stock up on the filters ahead of time since you are change it every six-months (or more often if you have bad water). Included was a calendar sticker to help remind you when to change filter out (nice feature). The install was a snap (as you have read in other reviews). Really easy. Of note might be the fact that the "holder" for the showerhead is at the "base" of the showerhead so this unit will actually make the height at which your "water comes out" about 8 inches higher than it was before you changed from conventional showerhead to this one. The hose seems really solid and the rest is made of the chrome plastic we are all used to working with by now. Seems solid though. We weren't able to find anything else on the market, including the filter, that was as reasonably priced as this unit.

Have city water, my eyes would burn when I got water in them, when I got water in my mouth it tasted like crud, my skin was dry and itchy, and to top it off my sinuses were bothered after taking a shower. This shower head has taken care of ALL these issues and to top it off the shower head itself is great-the water pressure has improved.*****Regards to a couple of the comments I've seen;"Great quality, easy to install, poor angle of spray".If you have two wrenches you can angle the spray where you want it. Takes some adjusting and a few extra minutes, but you can get the angle where you want it."This would be a great product if the part that connects to the shower pipe was made of metal instead of plastic, ..... cracked when tightening it."If you have a rag of some sort you can place that over the plastic pieces and tighten with a wrench; just be sure not to over tighten-gently and smoothly tighten the pieces. Plus, so many other showerheads on the market have plastic pieces; it's really no big deal. The quality of the head itself is good.*****All-in-All this really is a great product, I'm even thinking of getting one for our guest bathroom.

I've actually purchased three of these over the years. I had one for probably ten years and finally needed to replace it as the nubs the water comes out of were brittle and breaking after so long. I recently bought another one for my second bathroom. It is a bit heavy because of the filter in the head, but it's not unusable. It's just something to get used to. I like that it softens the water. It makes it less itchy to shower, especially for my family members with dry skin. The filter is easy to install/replace and I've never had an issue getting replacement filters. There are three settings for the water, I don't usually change it though. A basic shower, a softer more aerated setting, and a hard massaging setting. Overall I like this showerhead a lot and as long as it still exists when the current ones need to be replaced (hopefully another 10 years) I'd buy it again.

Update: It's six years later and I still use this product daily, so I feel compelled to update my review.While the bracket piece did break, Culligan sent me a new piece that hasn't broken in over five years of use. I may have just gotten a defective part the first time. Kudos to Culligan for sending me the new part, free.These kinds of hoses are basically a consumable. Even the best ones only last 5 years or so, so it wasn't really fair of me to ding this product for a cheap hose. I'm on my third hose now, they are commonly and cheaply available.The installation instructions were clear and installation was easy. Installation revealed the big flaw in this product though. The part that attaches to the shower, which also holds the shower head, is made of a very cheap and innappropriate plastic that's far too weak for the job. The plastic cracked while I was hand tightening it, and I'm not very strong! This pretty much renders the whole product useless unless you repair or modify it.I was concerned about the weight of the handle unit, considering it's got a filter and a cup or so of water in it. It is heavy, but not unmanageable. The available spray patterns are nice, the aereated foam is my favorite. It feels like a lot of water is coming out, even with the flow restrictor in. The combinations of two patterns may not work if you don't have pretty good water pressure. They work for me some days but not other days. The other thing I don't like about this product is that the hose is short. It's a good quality hose, it looks like it would last a long time. I had to substitute another longer hose for it to be long enough for my semi disabled spouse to use on the shower bench.