• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I remember staying in a capsule hotel in Osaka, Japan many years ago that had an extraordinary bathing area. Showers like these, and many others. Pools with varying temperatures of water.

  • ☼ Pero@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Personally I prefer when I shower it feels like I just stepped into a CAT5 hurricane but it might just be me

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      15 hours ago

      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

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        13 hours ago

        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

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      2 days ago

      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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Why wouldn’t they simply tax water use at progressive rates? If you use a lot of water, you have to pay a lot of money (ideally, towards water processing services).

      Doing low-flow laws makes for easy loophole setups like this, not to mention simply buying a device in/from another state. I doubt their cops are kicking down doors for Suspicion of High-Flow Toilet.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        They do have different rates depending on usage, at least here in Jersey, but those rates are basically 0-3000 gallons, 3000-10000, and 10000 and beyond, for example. So what I’m saying is they’re very high and basically only distinguish between residential, commercial, and agricultural. Although I shouldn’t say agricultural, because they often need to get special permits and pay different rates altogether.

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      2 days ago

      to save water for everyone, avoid baths and take showers.

      I’ll shower instead, but fuck anyone that wants me to save water for them

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        2 days ago

        I’m a lot more worried about agriculture and golf course water usage (and runoff) than I am the shower gallons.

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          2 days ago

          My comment was intended as a joke that is relevant to the image posted.

          Would you like to spread other true but unrelated propaganda, like meat farms or other agricultural efforts taking up water?

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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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.

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        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.

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Does anybody make a good recirculation system? Basically take the guts of a jet tub and put the jets on the wall.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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

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        2 days ago

        +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

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      2 days ago

      Rainhead + regular head both on separate controls. If i need a long hot shower, i turn off the rain head. I find it useful mainly for rinsing.

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      LOL I got lucky with the sale of my home too. The new owners passed on the home inspection, so thankfully they didn’t notice my DIY hacks, like fixing the door trim with wood filler after I got locked out one day and had to kick the door down to get in; they also somehow didn’t notice the cracked tile in the middle of the living room. FWIW there were spare tiles leftover to swap it out, all the appliances were less than 5 years old, and there were no major structural issues with the home so they still got a decent deal.

      But anyway I use a wand on a hose as well but I still want a shower like this. 'Cause I swear that no matter much I rinse my back off, I still miss some soap and end up with an itchy back after my shower. I kinda regret installing a whole-home filtration system since it makes rinsing the all the soap off take so much longer! I’m seriously considering not installing one when I buy my new home in the next few months (and I’m taking my sweet time cause it’s a buyer’s market at the moment).

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    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.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

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      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.

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      Ugh yeah trendy hotels are into these rain water things and it’s just annoying. I’d be more into this pressure washer though.

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      2 days ago

      The wall mounted spout for daily washing, the rain head for washing your hair and for a warming, relaxing shower when you get home cold.

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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      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.