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| TWO DOGS (65.179.200.204) Rating: N/A |
I don't do it much....but if you do...here's a hint.....take your shower head off & replace it with one of those dish rinsers like on the kitchen sink...wet down (1 gallon) soap up...rinse off 1 1/2 gallon.... | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj) (63.224.197.10)
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Good idea. And I bet they are much $cheaper$ than the fancy (and $expensive$) low volume high pressure showers heads THAT DON'T WORK!! | ||
| Johnny (4.174.70.211) Rating: N/A |
The LV-HP showerheads certainly do work. I think mine cost $6, about 5 years ago. It's a super-lo-flow (1.75GPM) made by Resource Conservation, & is the best showerhead I've ever used. My bus is getting an identical one. My wife has no trouble washing her knee-length hair with it. | ||
| ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (69.3.74.30)
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Well Johnny, that's good to know because for the last many years I've been of the opinion that Henry has. I've been thru three not-inexpensive ones in the last several years and boy have they been lousy. (Course I ruined one of them when I attacked it with a powerdrill trying to modify it  Naturally, when you type in "Resource Conservation" in Google you get a million hits that don't have anything to do with the company. Do you know a source for the one you like so much? | ||
| Scott Whitney (69.35.62.177) Rating: N/A |
All the low flow ones I used, when CA was in a drought and they were being given away free, sucked. All they did was blast you with mist and high air pressure. Didn't even feel hot cause there was so much cold wind blowing around. Maybe I never used a good quality low flow, but I like a bus with a normal shower head. Scott | ||
| Geoff (Geoff) (66.238.120.26)
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If you are going to take "Navy" showers you don't need a low flow shower head-- all you are doing is getting wet then rinsing off, and a normal flow shower gets the job done quicker and easier. On the other hand, if you are going to leave the water running then the low flow shower head would save you water. | ||
| rodger in WA (64.70.24.67) Rating: N/A |
A couple of years ago, after using one in a friend's house, I bought a a water conserving shower head at a Walmart in CA for around $7. It may be the LV-HP by Resource Conservation mentioned above by "Johnny". All metal, about 3 1/2" long overall and about the diameter of a quarter with a shut-off on the head. I liked it so well, I bought two more for the house. They work very well and have been problem free for a couple of years. | ||
| Ron Leiferman (Ron_In_Sd) (12.111.217.5)
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I have been thinking of putting show type units that you saw on the TV show M*A*S*H. You had to hold down the chain to get water but I see that they soon had hook to hold the shower on. I know that they have push button timers that only turn the shower on for a minute or two. I was thinking they would help with the water usage. You would just set your water temp mixture with normal mixing valve and them have the button right after the mixing valve. We had these at a church camp I work at one summer but the mixing valve was locked in the back room. Ron in SD Sioux Falls, SD | ||
| James Maxwell (Jmaxwell) (66.81.32.105)
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Started replacing shower heads years ago with shower wands with built in shutoffs at the head. They tend to screw up the operation of auto temp control mixing valves a little, but they do conserve a lot of water. | ||
| DrivingMissLazy (66.168.175.51) Rating: N/A |
James, I found out that by leaving a slow trickle of water flowing, the temperature remains fairly constant. Would only waste a pint or two of water. Richard | ||
| Johnny (4.174.103.93) Rating: N/A |
"A couple of years ago, after using one in a friend's house, I bought a a water conserving shower head at a Walmart in CA for around $7. It may be the LV-HP by Resource Conservation mentioned above by "Johnny". All metal, about 3 1/2" long overall and about the diameter of a quarter with a shut-off on the head. I liked it so well, I bought two more for the house. They work very well and have been problem free for a couple of years." Other than the shutoff, sounds like mine. If it helps, Resource COnservation, Inc. is out of Grennwich, CT. I bought it at Benny's (local hardware chain) a long time ago. My best guess is it aerates the water, kinda like a sink faucet. | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj) (63.224.197.10)
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Let me clarify that our experience with the 'low flow' shower heads is many years old when we had the solar powered homestead in SW Oregon. All the heads we tried at that time were rated for about 35 psi, but we found we had to increase the water pressure to at least 50 psi for them... ...to work worth a darn, but at that pressure they are NOT flowing 1.5 gpm, but proportionately much more. Thanks for the update. | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces) (65.74.65.65)
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Henry, just so you know, when dealing with a fluid flowing through a restriction, the pressure will generally be proportional to the square of the flow. If you quadruple the pressure, look for double the flow. For what it's worth. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher |