Disabled facilities / officer

What's a muston ring 😕

The reason the rings are fitted is to stop damage to the showerheads by stopping them from hitting the floor if dropped,and reaching other inappropriate areas  ,As with most large organisations I would expect disability advise to be some expert brought in when needed

Ps I have not found the flexible hoses to be as restricting as you seem to have found, did you speak to the site staff as it may just be a "local" issue

No it's to do with plumbing regulations.

Plumbing regs LINK

PS I'm not a "fount" of knowledge but remembered when OH fitted a new shower we saw the instructions about this on the paperwork. 

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I’m no expert on the regs and I’m working from a hazy memory but I think the link Brue posted demonstrates that the club have got it wrong at Malvern. It is the only disabled room I’ve come across, in either club, with such a restriction fitted to the shower hose.

It looks as though disabled site users need to look at individual sites for suitability and maybe phone the site to check. There seems to be a difference with facilities for those who are "walking" disabled and those in wheelchairs.  Put "disabilities" into search and you can see the clubs comments (lost my link somewhere!)                                                        Whether disabled facilities can offer a flexible shower head rather than one that is limited by regulation fixings, the club would need to respond as it's quite an understandable question put by the OP. So I'll report the OP's original comments and see whether the response can help?

Hopefully this will work and I've now reported the OPs question.

Disabled facilities LINK

 

 

That is also my understanding JVB. In the past I have also complained about the restrictions the rings impose on reach and I think they were in this instance removed. I don't believe it is a plumbing regulation to have these.

On the whole we have found the Clubs facilities for the disabled to be excellent although since we changed to the current motorhome we rarely use them now prefering to use on board facilities.

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It’s an advisory thing as far as I can tell, PD, and the aim is to prevent the shower head dropping into water in the basin, toilet etc and back syphoning. It’s unlikely that could happen in a site disability wet room.