Are you going to have a standardd shower head too? Because the benefits of having both are great. First, it's just the two of us as well and we still had the slide bar secured so it could double as a grab bar. You know just in case there's ever a slip. Then we also wanted the advantage of being able to adjust the height of the hand held. As it turns out, we can use both the slider & the shower head at the same time and boy is that wonderful! Basically with the slider you have more options for height and a secured slider can be a safety feature. Even if you don't need it now, for resale, that's a plus. I think for us it was one of those things where if you don't know you won't miss it, we did it for practical reasons more than anything else, then once it was in, we saw how great it is and were tickled pink.

We're in the process of remodeling our masterbath as well. We decided on the slider bar handheld in addition to a rainhead. One of the reasons we're remodeling is to widen the shower door and eliminate the "sill" so it can be ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible (we're getting older). So we opted for the handheld to make it accessible for someone in a wheelchair to use. We haven't gotten to the point of installing it yet, but we think we chose the right option for us.