Turn down the temperature of your water heater.
But that reduces the maximum length of your shower.
And saves both energy and water.
Boo, but I’m aiming to bring about global desertification any %
Weird.
I saw “melts tungsten” and my brain decided this was in German.
Fun fact: the german word for tungsten is Wolfram
Wolfram alpha suddenly makes even less sense
Speaking as a Dane, I too had to recalibrate from “heavyrock” to “tungsten the element” 😁
Same lmfao
I think it’s so late here that I assume Lemmy is sprechening Deutsch by default
Observe while I shower comfortably with:
Yes, but that is not a fair comparison, these are European.
This technology is only possible with degree Celsius. It is impossible to adapt to degree Fahrenheit.
You might have a point there
Except British homes which have two separate showerheads, one fully hot and the other fully cold.
The trick is to spin.
British when straight into inventing the radar and completely skipped over the invention of warm water.
Ah wel… the British have always been a bit particular to be honest.
I really don’t understand how this is still not the standard everywhere… The cheapest ones aren’t even that expensive and already way better than the alternative… Don’t think I’ve not showered with one of these in the last 25 years, except for in some kind of social housing projects homes.
Same man, it’s been a dream since installing this.
These things existe for at least 30 years, I don’t understand why anyone would want to use anything else for a shower or bathtub.
Do they hold for 30 years?
Definitely not :) I had to get it replaced at my flat this year. There is a filter inside that can get block if you have hard water or debris.
Ah, see, we have high calcium here, didn’t even know this thing exists.
Don’t let that stop you getting the ultimate shower experience! My parents also have water with very high calcium at their house and I don’t think they had any problems with the faucet in the past 15 years.
I live in a rented place, they were doing repairs to the heating systems, several times we had brown water coming out the tap. I bet they installed the cheapest option, plus the debris in the water, this fucked it.
Just invest in a good thermostatic faucet and never look back !
What’s that called?
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seems like a smarter solution than what one house I lived in did of just oversizing all the plumbing and having a recirculating hot water pump (probably could help prevent freezing, but it only got to -40 once or twice there) so you could run all faucets, the washer, and the dishwasher and still have pressure at the furthest shower.
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When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.
Growing up in rural France, we had these at home for as far as I can remember. They may not have been the norm 30 years ago, but at least common.
Interesting, so it adjusts the flow of hot/cold in the fly to keep a consistent temp? That’s amazing, thought I imagine it would have the same issue I have at the end of the shower where it’s on 100% hot just to eke out a bit more time
You can adjust the temp on your water heater to solve that.
What is this?
Thermostatic faucet
In seriousness, it’s often about water pressure and how your hot water is fed. If you have very high water pressure normally but a solar hot water system where gravity and input pressure play a role, you’ll naturally have an imbalance on hot and cold. When you turn the handle on the shower you’re lining up two holes in the shower cartridge (in the handle) with the two hot and cold water pipes, the resulting mix comes out a third hole which feeds the shower head. As you turn the handle, one hole opening gets smaller and the other bigger- thereby changing the ratio of hot : cold. When you already have a huge pressure of cold water pumping in, the degree of rotation needed to go from warm/almost just right to PURE HOT WATER is minuscule. Usually the cold will stay pretty cold for about half of the handle range of motion too.
If water input pressure being high is a problem you can put a reducing valve on your system overall or you can buy Venturi style pumps which add pressure into your hot water system.
You’ll normally find when it’s pressure imbalance that it’s easier to balance the temp when the tap isn’t open full bore. But who wants a weak-ass shower stream!!
This, exactly. When we redid our bathroom, we went from “immersion tank” hot water with about three metres of pressure behind it, to central heating in a closed system, where both hot and cold have the exact same pressure, about thirty metres head. Went from being basically impossible to have a shower, to being an absolute pleasure where nearly the entire range of the tap gives a useful temperature, and it’s got a right blast of pressure behind it too.
Another alternative would be an electric shower - since you’re just heating up cold water, the pressure is “always the same”. They tend to be a bit pathetic and crap, tho.
You can also just the handle off the shower and adjust the temperature regulator on the valve.
What kind of fucked shower knob turns counterclockwise
Australian, just like their toilets spinning water the other way.
If I remember correctly Mythbusters disproved that. It depends entirely on the way you pull the plug.
Well, essentially, it’s that the coriolis effect, while a real thing, is much weaker than most other factors in play. If everything else is neutralised or near to it, the coriolis would indeed be the remaining decider, but that’s very unlikely in practice.
The coriolis effect has nothing to do with this. The coriolis ‘force’ is not a real force, it’s just the product of things trying to move in a straight line on a rotating surface which to observers on that surface looks like a curve which implies a accelerating force. Usually this applies to things flying through the air, because the are moving independent from the ground. Something that is not a force can not influence something like the water in a thub.
What people confuse the coriolis force with is the centrifugal force of the earth’s rotation. But this force increases radialy but is tangetialy evenly distributed, which means it’s symmetrical so it doesn’t matter which hemisphere you’re in. It doesn’t point ‘left’ or ‘right’ it only points ‘out’ or ‘up’. Unless you’re right on one of earths rotational axis none of those effects matter.Otherwise people on the equator, their toilet water wouldn’t spin at all? It would just go straight down, no spin.
Water swirls because it’s the course of ‘least action’ for the draining process. It creates a laminar and continuous volume exchange through a hole. Pipes are usually filled with air which has to be exchanged with water to drain. Physics just optimizes itself to be as efficent as possible with this. You can’t have a perfect draining surface so so currents in one direction will always be a little bit stronger that in the others. Gravity applies a constant acceleration, so this small difference in initial direction will be amplified over time creating a swirl.
In case of a toilet though, the water is already introduced in a swirl during flushing. So none of the above even matters.
it spins both ways at the same time
So australian toilets have defective plugs, got it!
Its on the southern hemisphere.
IDK which way threads go on your country, but in the US at least you turn counterclockwise to loosen something.
That’s a German brand of faucet.
Looked over their entire catalogue and couldn’t find it, probably isn’t in production any longer. I’m almost certain though that the color is called “Vibrant brushed nickel” and that it’s fucking expensive
I picked it from Google images, they go through product lines like Kleenex.
USA checking in with one almost exactly like the picture
Yeah I’ve seen plenty like this in the US.
Lefty loosey, righty tighty
You know lefthand threading is a thing, right?
The ones at my gym.
My kitchen faucet is like this. It’s one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard
You should just move to a more tropical area. Where I live, I only ever use the “Cold” tap and sometimes, even that is too warm.
That’s how it is for me in the summer, and Jersey ain’t exactly tropical. But it’s kinda nice being able to just turn on the shower and get in. The cold water is likecold in the summers, and it’s usually humid, so a shower with no hot water ends up very refreshing.
i saw a comment on a meme like this that said some water mixing thing was broken
There are several possible causes to this problem, but that one is the most common.
The cartridge is likely bad. They get clogged up with lime scale over time and start to perform worse and worse. Either replace the cartridge or the whole faucet itself.
Because it is hard to make a cheap valve that has a wide mixing ‘sweet spot’.
Rich people showers don’t have this problem
Nah, Brougham.
All the way to the left, then back off 1/16".
Burn me, baby.
There are set screws behind the cover that will let you adjust the balance. Open up the cold a bit more.
This. So many comments in this thread make it pretty clear that most people don’t know there’s a regulator built into the faucet.
My body while my brain tries to figure out the sweet spot:
So there are lots of good answers, but there’s one I haven’t seen: The type of shower control in the photo is probably low quality, cheap, meaning the internal parts do a poor job of mixing the hot/cold water.
Adjusting the water heater may help, but you might also consider upgrading the shower faucet.
Probably American build.
Yep, if China had products at this quality and price point muricans would never shut up.
