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Old 02-21-2021, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Joanne19335 View Post
This is what I do and I HAVE a water softener. My shower head is attached with plumbers' tape and is difficult to remove. In fact, my plumber recommended that I do this and not remove the shower head.

Evidently you may have pipe threads which seals by taper on threads which notorious for dripping. Why plumber’s Teflon tape and goo was invented to stop the drip. My shower outlet pipes are straight threaded sticking out Of wall and seal by big rubber compression seal inside the shower head.