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Yeah I'll not be guilted into the notion at saving SECONDS of residential water use has any impact on climate. Water savings by industrial process and unmanaged municipal leaks are much higher on the list. The seconds of reduced residential use are less than a "drop in the bucket"
Caveats being I don't live in a drought striken area, I don't take overly long showers to begin with, and my utility bills are a non issue financially.
I do. But if I am washing only my hair, face or hands, not literally taking a shower, that I turn off while not using it.
I also used to keep water running and stopped doing that a few months ago. Also reduced my showering time to ~10 minutes… could easily spend 20, sometimes 30 minutes under the shower before.
I do but I'm rather conscious over water and power (electric shower) consumption, so my showers are more like shortwers.
If i turn the water off it takes a good 30 seconds to be hot again, so it just stays on.
Yeah. My shower has two knobs, so it takes ages to find the right balance for the temperature. It would be annoying to turn both knobs off and then turn them back on and find the right temp again
They make shower heads with a stop too, if you were so inclined.
How do you soap up without water? You just scrape dry soap all over your body?
Get wet, lather up, rinse off. A large part of Asia uses something that looks like a saucepan, made of plastic.
You get your hands/wash cloth and body wet before you turn off the water to lather up
Most people use liquid shower gel.
Basically unusable with our water. It just won't wash off. Bar soap doesn't have such problem.
I have the opposite problem. Bar soap leaves me with a sticky residue that, ironically, doesn't wash off easily and leaves me feeling grosser than when I started the shower. I think skin type may be a factor.
I also keep a razor in the shower, and shave in the hot water...... wild card!
But after seeing [email protected] posts for awhile, I got a double sided safety razor... and it's really improved the experience.
What did it make better? I just use cheap disposable razors.
The safety razor is cheap over the long run.
I have an adjustable safety razor, so I can dial in the sharpness i need; So far I'm still on my first blade after 2 months, I find I only need one pass to get a clean shave. When I'm done shaving, its really easy to get the hair off the blades (rinse it off) which I think helps alot with longevity of the blade. Plus everything is tidier since I dont have bags of disposables everywhere.
With disposable razors I found I had to go multiple times, and sometimes use two different razors - not to mention the trash build up. Where I live shaving isn't so common, so getting a consistent supply of disposable razors was a bit of a logistical issue. (i'd always be swapping out what I was using based on what I could find)
I did some research on YouTube before I bought it, and I thought this is too much work, cuz everybody has their detailed meditative process they do. Oh you pre-soak the skin, okay now you get the soap, now you lather up the soap, now you apply it multiple times, now you take the razor with a fresh blade, and go one direction. Now go the other direction. Now go perpendicular to both of those. Then after the shave clean all of the soap, now apply an aftershave lotion, take the blade out of the razor.... And I should have ignored all of that, because it's fine just to use it like a disposable razor in the shower. No fuss. The people who like the process can really enjoy the process, but I now realize it's totally unnecessary
Things I have learned since switching:
Razors rust because they lose their oil coating with use. If you want them to last longer, clean them and apply more oil/keep them dry - (if your lazy just dunk it in a cup of mineral oil when not in use)
Running a razor backwards across your arm (don't cut yourself) is a nifty way to strop it and keep the edge clean
Skin in the shower needs no soap/lotion/lather
With adjustable razors close it down all the way for the "safest" cut, then go up slowly if you need a more aggressive angle (4 / 10 works fine for me)
Just buy the handle/razor, don't go all out on the accessories.
Nothing shaves closer, it's inexpensive, and often no plastic packaging.
We've got a shower massage type thing with multiple settings that include a cutoff, but I never use it because we also have this water conditioner can before the shower massage that I'm pretty sure would just explode if it had to hold back our water pressure. Wife likes the conditioner bc she claims it helps with the itchy. I'm sure we could save some water if we used the cutoff, but it's not like we spend hours in there anyway.
No. It would take more time and water to run it to get the temperature in the pipes warm again than to just quickly soap and rinse.
No. Takes two seconds to open or close the tap. However, I do sometimes spend time daydreaming under running water so I guess it evens out!
I've started to just because it's easy
Yes
Mine is easy enough to turn down the water to keep a smaller flow to maintain comfort and water temperature while soaping, so I do that.
Yes. I don't take wildly long showers, so the conservation isn't really worth the convenience of being able to step in/out of warm water at will.
One of the few benefits to a well/septic.
I have to pay zero attention to water conservation. Hell, when it rains a lot I have to let some faucets run. Just pumping water from one side of the house to the other. Otherwise the side with the well can get moisture in the basement
