Shower Riser Bracket

Yes. Forget it.

In one of my guest room showers I had used various DIY shed riser and and handset kits.

They are universally total rubbish and the failure mode always seems to be one aspect or another of the bracket holding the handset to the rail. Either they break totally or the plastic splits or the detent on the tilt mechanism fails. Spares are never available, mandating replacement of the whole thing.

On the last replacement, I have gone for entry level Hansgrohe fittings obtained from Screwfix.

Either one can buy the complete thing

or I bought

Riser Rail Kit 73393 (£35) Hose 50924 (£13) Handset 62400 (£33)

which has a better handset.

The construction quality is substantially better than the typical shed products, there's a 5 year warranty and spares are obtainable from the manufacturer.

I think that that makes a lot more sense than buying these cheap things. So far it has lasted longer than one and shows no sign of deterioration. If it lasts longer than two, shich I expect it to, then it makes even better sense.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Schrodinger's cat" saying something like:

Keep looking; cheapy replacement shower head brackets are available.