Waterfall faucet installation is wall work: the Ella Waterfall Bathtub Faucet is a wall-mounted brass faucet with a 24 inch slider bar and a hand-held shower, roughed into the wall by a licensed plumber before the walls close. It comes in matte black, chrome and brushed nickel, and on the demonstration tub it filled the bath in under 5 minutes. This article explains what is in the package, how the installation goes and what to expect from the fill. The deck-mounted 2-piece and 5-piece fast-fill faucets are compared in fast-fill faucets, 2-piece versus 5-piece.

What the Package Includes

• Main faucet body cast from A-grade brass with a ceramic cartridge in a brass housing, double-handle hot and cold control, wall-mounted.
• Slider: brass base with a 304 stainless steel tube, 24 inch slide travel, and a brass slide sleeve.
• Two stainless steel hoses, each about 59 inches long.
• Extendable multi-function hand shower with four spray settings, resting in a holder that adjusts up and down and side to side. The attachment is reversible so the hand shower can sit wherever you prefer.
• Shower diverter valve, installation hardware (screws, washers, fittings), brass connectors, wall mounts for the slide bar, decorative cover plates and a hex key for assembly.

Maximum water flow is rated at about 10.5 gallons per minute. Finish options are matte black, chrome and brushed nickel; the rest of the tub hardware stays chrome.

How the Installation Goes

No written transcript is available for this video yet, so treat it as a visual companion showing the faucet fitted to a finished wall; the product page also hosts a short installation clip. In broad strokes: the hot and cold supplies are roughed into the wall at the faucet body's centers, the brass body is set to the wall on its cover plates and connected to the supplies, the slide bar's wall mounts are marked level and anchored, the two stainless hoses connect the diverter and the hand shower, and the hand shower is seated in its holder on the column. Because everything is wall-mounted, the supply rough-in must be finished and tested before the wall surface is closed and tiled, so have a licensed plumber do this work and add solid blocking where the body and the slide bar mounts will land. Ask the team for the dimensioned drawing from the specification sheet before the wall is framed, and plan reachable shut-off valves at the same time.

Fill Expectation

The product video introduces the faucet: water arrives in a soothing waterfall cascade, and this high-capacity faucet filled the demonstration tub in less than 5 minutes. It also shows the extendable multi-function hand shower with four settings, resting on a shower column that is easily adjusted up and down and side to side, with a reversible attachment. Your own fill time depends on your home's water pressure and the size and capacity of your water heater, so treat the demonstration as a best case rather than a promise. What a realistic fill looks like, and how to size the heater so the water stays warm, are in fast-fill faucet expectations and hot water heater requirements.

Which Tubs It Suits

The waterfall faucet is the natural choice for tubs that are not drilled for a deck-mount faucet. The LayDown 30 x 60 never ships with a factory faucet and needs a wall-mounted faucet of this kind; the LayDown 32 x 72 is faucet-ready and offers optional deck-mount Ella faucets, or you can choose the wall-mounted waterfall. If you would like a walk-in tub delivered without deck faucet holes so the waterfall can be used, mention it to your Ella dealer or the team at (800) 480-6850 when you place your order; the rules are in ordering without a faucet and using your own.

Slider Bar, Shower Column or Waterfall?

Three Ella products put a shower within reach of a seated bather, and they are not interchangeable. The 24 inch hand shower slider bar reuses the hand shower that came with your deck faucet, needs the barrel extension hose, and can be fitted to an installed tub; see installing the hand shower slider bar. The shower column kit adds a rain head to a tub with a deck faucet; see installing the shower column kit. The waterfall is a complete wall-fed faucet with its own hand shower and slider, for tubs with no deck faucet at all.

Common Questions

For anything specific to your model, serial number or order, open a ticket at ellasbubbles.com/support or call (800) 480-6850 and the team will walk your installer through it.