Enough already with the shower posts

Okay, okay, I hear you.

Two in one day yesterday — five hours apart — is overkill.

Agreed.

In fact, I've already given my entire scheduling team their pink slips.

But I digress.

Who needs inverted showers and fiber-optic chromatherapy?

After the trickle-down streams from hotels and motels, when you're home you just wanna stand there and have a hot shower that beats on your neck and back.

Okay, understood.

Speakman builds the best — in terms of function, appearance, value and durability — widely-available consumer-version showerheads in the U.S.

But you have to be careful: as with Calphalon, which sells different weights of their pots and pans that all look alike, Speakman sells both plastic and solid metal versions of its showerheads.

Don't be fooled: you want solid metal.

The best price I've found is $59.99 for their solid brass 2.75"-diameter six-nozzle version with 48 spray channels total.

I've had that very Speakman showerhead in my showers for so many years now, I can't even remember how long; the current ones have been up for at least 10 years without malfunctioning and the water spray seems as intense as the day I bought them.

Full disclosure: I've never yet removed them to clean them as there's been no apparent need.

That water stream comes out with so much power even now, it pins me to the shower wall.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about.

You will note that another website offers the polished chrome version for $49.02.

You will also note, if you read the description carefully, that nowhere does it say that the showerhead is solid metal.

Caveat emptor.