Hot Water Heating

Well, the filthy farmers in my family just shower in the evening; I don't know how anyone can get dirty overnight in bed
Don't answer that either

As a single lady, retired and mobility issues so does little physical work, I reckon I could get away with a shower twice a week and not smell! As a child in the 1960’s, a weekly baths was considered sufficient although I did have extra ones during my periods. I don’t sweat much and use deodorant so I don’t smell of BO - I have checked by asking my very honest daughter!

I do shower more than once a week ( not giving any details though!) but not every day other than during the rare heatwaves we have. I wash my hair every time I shower and it does not get greasy in between washes.

I don’t know where this obsession about daily or twice daily showers came from, probably a marketing ploy from soap product manufacturers!

I’m off now to wait for all the “yuks” to start flying around!

I have a combi boiler so all I do is turn the water on and there is instant hot water, you don't need a water tank

I don't think I use more any more water when I shower than I do when I wash in the basin, except when I do my hair too.

First I run off the cold water into a bucket , and it is used to flush the toilet. That is half a bucketful.

Then I wet myself - ten seconds at the most . After that, I turn the tap off again, soap myself, then rinse. The tap is running no longer for that than it is when I run off the cold water, so it can't be more than half a bucketful.

I don't think I could possibly save any more water unless A. I start cleaning myself every two days instead of every day, which is not an option with my erratic body thermostat since the menopause, or B. Shave my head so that a weekly hair wash is no longer necessary.

To be honest, I think those two options might be going a little too far, even for me.

No yuks from me Teacheranne I only shower 3 times a week after a good night's sleep. It's not the shower and hair washing that exhausts me but getting dry and putting my cream on . I do this all year round. Just have a wash the others days. I have never smelt. I use a deo everyday. I only change my bed end of every month. I live on my own and since my husband died 18 years ago still only sleep on my side of our king size bed. I always wear slippers in my bungalow and take them with me when visiting other peoples homes.

The only time I have had dirty feet is when I have had to stay in hospital. And always used a flannel on my feet before getting into the hospital bed.

Teacheranne
No yuks from me as i think I was the first poster to point out what an obscene waste this is of one of our most precious resources.
I’m also astounded that it’s taken an energy crisis to make so called educated adults to wake up.

I find these comments fascinating, and I'm not taking the you know what. It's so different from the system we have in the US, at least it seems to be, what with all the timing and different types of coordinating heat. My washing machine and dishwasher fill with whatever kind of water I select, hot or cold. At least where I live, we don't have any choice about who provides our heat. I've wondered how y'all compare rates etc. We just fall into certain regions which are served by certain companies, here in the Midwest. I am actually fascinated by the endless comparisons and choices and box ticking and choosing vendors that y'all have to go through. I'd be totally lost. And, NOTAGRAN55 , trust me, your two extra showers or baths a day are not even a drop in the bucket towards saving the planet. Honestly, a person can't enjoy their life for love nor money. If you need the shower to feel better, to brace yourself for the day, to get rid of the sleep sweat, go right ahead. I don't think anyone will be reading out your names at the end of the world saying if only they had eliminated their extra bathing. Enjoy! ?

I think, generally that most of us waste an awful lot of water with continuous showering and frequent bathing.

Personally, I just switch my hot water on once a day for a few hours and switch it of before I go to bed. Don’t bother with a timer, and don’t know how to work it anyway.

Thank goodness some of us consider how much water we use and don’t just ‘Enjoy!’. What an irresponsible comment.

NotAGran55, I should think that most of us have modern condensing boilers that heat water as required - so it never runs out.

Still, it's very wasteful to spend ages in the shower. I've got used to being quick and using lukewarm water (rather than hot) due to sensitive skin. I don't think I can cut down beyond that.

Are we allowed to ‘enjoy’ if we live in Wales? We get enough rain to float a battleship every day in the winter, or so it seems so I think we should be allowed a shower in the morning and a bath at night here (need it to get the mud off) as a special exception if we want one. We’ve got a very good water company, and supply lots of our water to England already, it wouldn’t be depriving anybody.

If you bathe at night, then presumably you are clean, and then you shower in the morning,
How is that logical.
Did you sleepwalk during the night maybe and woke up grubby.

Night sweats Greciangirl.

Then just shower in the morning?

Greciangirl

If you bathe at night, then presumably you are clean, and then you shower in the morning,
How is that logical.
Did you sleepwalk during the night maybe and woke up grubby.

Perhaps some people sleepwalk, raid the fridge, get food down themselves, go in the garden and get dirty feet - who knows what other people get up to in the middle of the night?

Casdon

Are we allowed to ‘enjoy’ if we live in Wales? We get enough rain to float a battleship every day in the winter, or so it seems so I think we should be allowed a shower in the morning and a bath at night here (need it to get the mud off) as a special exception if we want one. We’ve got a very good water company, and supply lots of our water to England already, it wouldn’t be depriving anybody.

It's permitted if you have a cold shower, Casdon
Like being back at school.

But when you’ve been out in the garden you get dirty, or at least I do, as a lot of my garden’s on a bank and I’m on my knees gardening upwards, as well as all the usual tasks. To be honest I have no guilt at all about it, I often have two showers a day. The one thing we aren’t short of in the Beacons is water.

Are we allowed solar power warm Callistemon21? I’m not under there for long.

I think you can have a special dispensation Casdon. You’ve put forward a compelling case.

That’s very kind Germanshepherdsmum, thanks.

Casdon

Are we allowed solar power warm Callistemon21? I’m not under there for long.

Yes, permitted Casdon!

There is a thing as too much gardening (or so I keep telling myself).

Callistemon21, I know somebody (retired teacher) who always takes cold showers - at 71 years of age!

She used to spend the summers camping in Europe, where cold showers were free, so 'got used to it'. She does have beautiful skin but I just couldn't do it (I'm sure the shock would kill me).

Hetty58 we had to have cold showers at school after sport under the eage eye of the PE mistress - no soap! and an overwhelming smell of teenage girl BO in the changing room even after a quick splash.
Yuk, yuk.

Where's our hardy Gransnetteer who swims in the North Sea all year round?

Brrr!

My spelling!
I need a cold shower to sharpen me up.