The Nebia Spa Shower nozzle system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt looks super cool and sounds quite “exhilarating”? Maybe I’m just a rocket nerd, I don’t know. About 30cm below the shower head the water begins to float. It’s become so fine and so light a water droplet cloud begins to form in your shower. The wand, mounted to the shower wall is doing the same if you’ve turned it on but is instead shooting the water out horizontally creating a full cloud effect the height of its intended user.<\/p>\n
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Stepping into the cloud it one of the more bizarre experiences I’ve had. The water looks like it should hurt or sting. It’s firing out of the nozzles with such force that it invokes a sort of physical apprehension at first. Instead, because the water is now so fine and so light it’s quite literally like walking into a lukewarm, wet, cloudy hug, which coincidentally describes everything good and bad about the Nebia Spa Shower.<\/p>\n
Too cold and too messy it was a simpler life without it but I do miss that cloud feeling or “Nebia-Glow” I had when it was a hot day and the temperature was perfect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The water feels amazing, it wraps around you and floats all over your body in a way that’s difficult to describe. It’s unlike any shower you’ve had before and I say that because it just doesn’t feel like a shower. You’re getting wet, you’re actually getting very wet but you don’t really notice it because the water kind of rests atop your skin before there’s enough of it that it begins to pool and stream down your body. I’ve seen a few people complain that you don’t get wet enough, which I disagree with completely, the Nebia does a great job of covering you with water it just doesn’t feel like it does in the traditional shower head pressure way.<\/p>\n
The side effect of creating this mist and the reason for the wand’s position mid-torso is how little heat remains after the micro nozzle process. Running my shower entirely on hot water at a temperature that would definitely scald me with a traditional shower head was in fact too cold at the tail end of winter. Steaming hot as it shot out of the nozzles it was cold a foot away. I ended turning up my hot water service and even still I struggled to retain heat almost ruining the experience entirely.<\/p>\n
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Nebia advise the shower system works best when installed in an enclosed shower, trapping the mist, steam, which is the complete opposite to my open, walk-in, shower. Not only was the cloud of mist free to escape out of my doorless shower it would go on to coat every single surface of my bathroom and turn it into a gigantic dripping mess. Thankfully my walls are covered in tiles and it was no problem but for anyone with plaster walls and an open shower I’d think twice before investing.<\/p>\n
To combat the heat issue Nebia have a toggle on the shower head to reduce the misting effect and activate a couple of more direct nozzles but it did little to nothing in my opinion. Clearly a major issue for many the new version is said to be up to 29% warmer but I fear will do nothing to help if you’re in an open shower position like myself.<\/p>\n
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All for naught?<\/h2>\n
At the end of the day I uninstalled the Nebia. Too cold and too messy it was a simpler life without it but I do miss that cloud feeling or “Nebia-Glow” I had when it was a hot day and the temperature was perfect. Enough that I hovered over the “Back” button on their second Kickstarter for quite some time before talking myself out of it by writing this review.<\/p>\n
The Nebia is true to its word in offering a better showering experience but at what cost and at what temperature? If you have an enclosed shower though I’d say it’s definitely worth a shot, I guarantee you’ve never experienced anything like it before.<\/p>\n
Nebia 2.0 units, which promise a better temperature retention, the feeling of more pressure and a larger plumbing compatibility are available from US$379 via Kickstarter<\/a>. They’re due to ship between September & November, 2019.<\/p>\n[P_REVIEW post_id=8640 visual=’full’]\n