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I’d die, I feel over stimulated just taking a normal shower, I think I could handle a multi headed shower for like 30 seconds.
I just did a shower remodel and it’s extremely difficult to get the flow rates for these things. Even just with a normal shower head, plus rain head, and a single wand, I can empty the 50 gallon hot water tank in about 10 minutes. These crazy drowner showers practically require parallel tankless heaters to supply 10+ gpm.
They have a thing I think is called a water mixing valve. You crank your tank way up. The valve mixes cold and super hot water to what would be normal hot water. This makes the hot water tank last a lot longer. We have one, and both kids can take showers/baths at the same time. And I can shower after and still have hot water. The overall flow and pressure of course is still not enough to run more than two shower heads at the same time without noticing. But that’s a different issue.
You need to be really careful turning up your heater unless you’ve got safety mechanisms on every faucet. Even just 140F will scald a stupid kid/adult/worker in seconds. Many people get disfigured and sued every year over this. 125-130F is about as high as you should go unless you have protection everywhere.
The mixing valve mixs in cold water to the hot water coming out to bring the temp down to where you choose. 140 water never leaves the valve, which is mounted on the exit from the hot water heater. The design is super simple, so failure is very unlikely. But it is designed to fail to full cold.
I have never heard of a whole home mixing valve. That sounds like it would be a pretty complicated retrofit.
Nope, super simple. I could theoretically even do it myself. I didn’t but it is that simple. This looks a lot like the one I have. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Honeywell-Home-AMX300TLF-DirectConnect-Water-Heater-Kit/5018636545?user=shopping&feed=yes
The part on the left is the mixing valve, you attach it to the output of your hot water heater. The part on the right is just a basic T junction you out on the inlet to the hot water heater so you have a source of cold water for the mixing valve.
I honestly had never considered this…
Does anybody make a good recirculation system? Basically take the guts of a jet tub and put the jets on the wall.
The noise from the pump alone… Great idea tho lol
Wouldn’t be able to hear the pump over the sound of water blasting my ear canals from three different angles
Men’s Bathroom
If you ever watched Home Improvement, you would get this
The Man’s * episodes are funny as hell.
Man’s kitchen: “The microwave has three settings; Low, Medium, and Split your own atoms. Don’t look directly at the potato!”
I’ve never found these more appealing than a good single adjustable angle wall mounted spout with decent pressure. For the life of me I don’t know why anyone would want a single ceiling mounted “rain” head. I think those are the worst.
Yes like being drowned. And I don’t want to get my hair wet every time I shower! Stayed w my brother, he had an overhead shower like that and I thought my hair would mildew, it was always wet.
What are shower caps?
Insufficient plastic bags, they can’t survive a direct hit like that. They do work for regular showers, to keep the incidental splashes off.
As someone who rocked a rain head … yeah totally. I also still had a ‘normal’ shower head on an adjustable flow valve. lol
… though the pure rain head wouldn’t have been too terrible. My hair is like 90% of what takes direct flow to clean. Asscracks etc aren’t ‘that’ bad to wash via finding the right posture and waiting a few moments for enough water to find its target.
… I am fully willing to admit my opinion may change drastically in 30 years when even a leaned over posture becomes a PITA.
For me water flowing over the back from an angle is quite relaxing. Water being dumped directly over my head is not.
Ugh yeah trendy hotels are into these rain water things and it’s just annoying. I’d be more into this pressure washer though.
I talked a DIYer out of installing a rain head on a stall shower–one of those that are about 3 feet square. I told him to imagine taking a shower where you couldn’t get out from under the water. You’d need to turn it off to lather and then turn it on to rinse. It was for a guest bathroom. He thought it was trendy and cool.
CIA interrogation simulator
Won’t anyone think of the poor datacenters?
“Turn of the tap on time, water is limited and precious, love yourself and the planet we live on”
Meanwhile…
All this water wasted on your shower could be used to generate a spam email or an image of jesus made of shrimp. Before you waste this much water water, think of what’s important in the world, Sam Altman’s net worth.
If I get my water from my well and it goes right back into my septic tank on my property.
How much water am I actually wasting?
I just moved the water 40ft vertically, and ~100ft horizontally
You didn’t simply move the water, otherwise you could plug a pump in your septic tank and take a shower with it. Infinity water supply
Hansgrohe has a shower world about an hour from where I used to live. When we were remodeling our bathroom I spent a happy hour there, trying out all the different shower heads and installation options. It was really interesting to be able to move between different models and feel the difference.
Are you nude when you try them out? Or like you just stick your hand in? Or ?
It’s up to you. I brought my swimsuit with but I was all alone and they promised no-one would disturb me. I think I could lock the door, if memory serves.
I imagine they wore a swimsuit.
One rain head and a wand is fine for me. As long as the rain head is wide enough to get all of me while I sit on the shower floor letting it run over me while I contemplate my life for 10 minutes. The wand to actually do a good job of soap removal.
I had one of the nice showers with rain head and two wall jets and a wand. The jets never turned off just wasted pressure that could have gone elsewhere.
I am glad the people who bought my townhouse didn’t get an inspection because they would have found out that one of the knobs just spun and the other knob wasn’t fastened so came loose. The previous people we bought it from did a shoddy remodel that we didn’t get an inspection for so we just passed it on. It was our first home so we learned to pay for the inspection with our next place.
I just want a wand with a nice balance between pressure and area. My current one is great, it has a setting somewhere between massage head and regular. It’s nice and penetrates my hair quickly. That said my other priority is that the head is sufficiently high up. I’m just tall enough I often have to bend over, use the wand part, or sit/kneel to wash my hair, and I hate that. Tall people deserve showers too
+1 to tall people deserve showers. I’m 6’5/1.96m and it’s SO ANNOYING HAVING TO SPEND MY ENTIRE SHOWER SQUATTING RAAAA
Still less water used thsn a small farm lol.
I think something like 97% of our fresh water supply goes into agriculture.
In the US it’s definetely not true.
https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/water/us-water-supply-and-distribution-factsheet
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/how-we-use-water
Pre-datacenters numbers are ~35% irrigation, ~45% thermoelectric power plant cooling, 12% residential, 5% industry, and then other usages.
I don’t know how much datacenters changed this equation.For the global statistics, not to be a US-centric the numbers are a different, https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/overview/methodology/water-use
still only 70% overall in the world, with huuuge discrepancy between countries.
You’re not wrong, but it’s worth pointing out how most of that water is wasted before some genius chimes in to remind us that we eat food.
They’re wrong though.
And yet no ass blaster nozzle 🤔🧐
Hey, did you know you can turn around? its like walking without going anywhere just rotating yourself.
Make sure you rotate around the vertical axis, and practice on soft ground before trying it in a wet hard surface like a shower.
Halp, I’m upside down, how do I stop this
Relax, are you familiar with imaginary numbers and their 3d extensions? you might have to read about quaternion rotations .
Like some common peasant? Next you’ll expect me to lather AND repeat!
One part is always cold, then. The one advantage baths have over showers is that you can be warm all over. I don’t want a car wash shower but it would solve that.
if one side is cold and the other hot, you can spin really fast and average it out.
Viva la revolución
We should have a water recommendation system in every home. Solar powered. A pump give you a 2hr shower of your life every day. Then that water passes through several filters until it ends up back in the Reservoir. So that way you don’t waste so much water daily.
You’d waste more water on those filters than you’d reclaim.
Well, what if it was live? Like the first level would be sand with UV. Then a second level had snails eating dead skin and alleges processing nitrates. Then a fish pond. LOL yeah, well you’d be treating the water in situations. You wouldn’t want to use just any soap and such. It is possible but probably expensive or hard or both.
It is possible but probably expensive or hard or both.
You’d be surprised…
Well, what if it was live?
Now you’re getting somewhere!
Skip the sand and the UV and the snails. Definitely skip the fish pond… You don’t want anything in your drain going into a body of water with large vertebrates in it. You don’t want animals to be involved in the filtration process at all.
You want plants. Plants, and bacteria. You want to inject the water into a large patch of vegetation and topsoil, where friendly little microbes will consume all the biologically active material, leaving the ground water to percolate through biologically inactive, mineral earth and back into a deep, underlying aquifer whence that water originally came.
You’re inventing a “septic system”.
You’ll want two tanks. The first will allow solid materials to settle. Anaerobic bacteria will act on solid biomatter, breaking much of it up into soluble effluent. The effluent at the surface overflows into a second tank, where more settling and more bacteria continue to decompose it. Next, the water from the surface of the second tank overflows into a leach field, where perforated pipes release it into topsoil. Here, decomposition switches from anaerobic to aerobic, and the process is similar to composting. The subsurface compost becomes fertilizer to surface vegetation, and the remaining water percolates into the ground water, and ultimately, the aquifer.
That’s called a sewage treatment plant, and it’s usually done at a large scale because it’s way more efficient that way. Would you want to install a grain mill in every house so people can grind their own flour? Would make a lot more sense to share one communally, no?
I don’t know about you but growing up we had our own grain grinder. I vividly recollect going to the market to find replacement stone wheels for it. Much has changed and the world is worse off now.
Yes, clearly communal water treatment and grain processing are to blame for that, not our profit-driven economic system.
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Put it on full blast and full cold so can really simulate that feeling
Honestly, give me a pressure washer with the maximum pressure human skin can handle.
