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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: No Hot Water!
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:41:30 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- perley@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (Don Perley) writes:
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- >>One of life's little pleasures is a good HOT shower at about 6-8 GPM.
- >>It took me quite a while to find a shower head capable of this. I finally
- >>had to buy an old one at an antique flea-market. I figure my wife and I
- >>about equate a 4 person family with more conventional water use patterns.
-
-
- >Hmmm.. more than that. I seem to recall in another post you said these showers
- >run about 20 minutes, so that's potentally 160 gallons. I have read that
- >a typical person uses about 50 gallons/day of water total, so your shower
- >(if daily) is more than a family of 3 all by itself, and it's all HOT.
-
- I don't think it's quite that bad. My tankless heater can heat 3.5
- gpm to a 100 degree rise. That would mean about 150 degree hot water
- most of the year. Cut that water by a bit more than a third with cold water
- to make the shower right and that ~5 gpm. We had an 80 gal heater before
- and we could both barely get through a long, lazy saturday morning :-)
-
- >Conservation aside, If you have trouble finding enough flow in a
- >shower head in the future you could just get 3 or 4 of the modern
- >heads and have them spray you from all directions.
-
- Yep. I got an even better idea after touring the Builtmore mansion in
- North Carolina. The showers there had a hoop of piping around the bottom and
- top of the shower with several (4 or 5) heads on each and in addition
- a LARGE (~ 1 foot dia) head in the center pointing down. Water was
- heated in a heat exchanger from building steam. Had a real industrial
- flavor to it. :-) Another alternative might be a deluge shower head
- from an industrial chemical safety shower.
-
- John
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