have you considered entering after the water warms up
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how are you going to turn on the water without entering the shower cabin
put your hand in and turn it on from the outside
My arms arent that long
Have you considered growing longer arms?
Have you considered manning up a little (in a completely gender neutral way).
Alternatively, use a shower umbrella.
Thanks im cured
How fucking massive is your shower that you can't simply reach into it and grab the handle?
The door is opposite to the actual unit
Turn it on in the sink, then it may only take like a second in the shower (if you're lucky with your plumbing layout)
I think I need a diagram of this plumbing layout
As a shameful normie whose sink is entirely separate from my shower, I'm having a hard time picturing this
If your hot water line comes from [wherever, in my case the basement] and passes by your shower before leading to a sink, it's likely that the water by your shower will also be hot once it comes out hot at the sink.
It might be! I'll try it, thanks!
Aim the shower at the wall, turn it on, get out
With a rope.
Why would I be inside the shower before the hot water shows up
I turn on the shower at maximum hot, undress, THEN introduce cold back to a comfy temperature and step inside.
Sometimes I take my pants off before my shoes...we are not all the same
Pro tip:
Always max hot water (or hot water only if separate) to warm up shower fastest and save water. It's a win win.
Turning it 3/4 or something to desired temperature takes longer to heat up and wastes both hot and cold water.
Coward
Alex Honnold?
Yes, on the Thank God Ledge, on Half Dome.
That's gonna be a no from me dawg
The photo is somewhat deceptive. It's actually angled away from vertical slightly. He's resting on the wall behind him.
I used to only have cold water up until a month ago and I'd get confused when those cold shower body builder trent went online but yeah now that i'm getting used to it i can see the difference.
Edit : To avoid confusion i used to live in a place with noderate climate and only recently moved .
Where do you live where they just got hot water?
Who just got ? I was just talking about me specifically i ised to live somewhere with moderate climate sure in the winter it was cold but not that cold . Now i have moved states and it is kinda really cold here so .
In Iceland, it depends on the volcanos.
Building my home with a hot water circuit was one of the better decisions of the last decade. Every tap, hot water within three seconds. Wasn't that much additional effort or cost anyway, not sure why it's not more common.
My kitchen sink is really far from my water heater, so I put a 3 gallon electric water heater under the sink. It did the same thing without having to be a new home. Would definitely recommend.
Does the circuit use any water or is it just pumped around and kept heated? Does it use a lot of energy?
Does the circuit use any water or is it just pumped around and kept heated? Does it use a lot of energy?
The water is just pumped around the circuit, fresh water only enters the circuit when a tap is opened somewhere.
Energy losses are at a minimum, the pipes for the circuit are isolated with 40mm Armaflex all around.
The pumping speed is regulated by temperature difference. Water leaving the heat buffer is targeted to never be more than two degrees C warmer than water returning from the loop. That usually results in the pump drawing one to three watts.
The 1000 liter heat buffer collects heat from the wood stove, the heatpump and the solar thermal panels and transfers it to hot water and the underfloor heating. The water in the actual hot water circuit is maybe 15 Liters or so.
Heat sources are automatically started depending on their pricing, solar thermal first, then heatpump when photovoltaics is pushing excess power, then heatpump when the grid is cheap and of all of those aren't available I get an alert on my phone that it's a good time to light the wood stove. And if I don't do that, the heatpump will run at whatever grid pricing is current. If the heatpump fails and the sun isn't shining and I'm not there to light the stove, the whole system will fall back to freeze protection with a simple heater and unregulated pumping.
Heating the whole house to 23°C and having enough hot water for two people costs maybe around 70€/month across the year, so, it's okay price wise.
Thanks for those details! That sounds like a great system and beats my failsafe of heating a big pot of water on the woodstove
Hey, the pot of water solution is assembled in five minutes if you already have a pot and a stove, so resource wise you've got a bit of an advantage.
I've spent a year alone on tinkering with the automation in regard to power prices and solar production, because I had to wait for every season and combination of temperatures outside, wind and solar radiation to... well, occur. It's probably a bit overengineered but I like this kind of thing and using the available resources to an optimum (and having the stats to prove it 😁) is just an enjoyable past time for me.
When you build toilet on the side of a cliff so that you can have privy ledges
Why wait even? Cold water is still water.