Light entertainment: enjoy the shower!

Reader Chris P. sends us to the shower:

I'm not sure who created this chart. But great work! Love it.

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When I first came to the States, it puzzled me that two dimensions (flow, temperature) could be condensed onto one control. I still don't understand why.

Comments

[Tom West]

I agree! One lever should not do two jobs! Almost as bad are the showers with a hot tap and a cold tap, so that the sum is the flow, and the ratio is the temperature. My first shower had one thing for flow and the one thing for temperature, and I have never worked out why anyone woul do anything else. Oh, and the temperature control used a thermostat, so that "6" was always the same temperature, not matter how hot or cold the hot and cold water.
Gosh, quite a rant there.

[Mitch]

The one-action faucet (controlling both warmth and volume) was introduced supposedly (I heard this offhand from a plumber) in order to guard against scalding water (the magma end of the scale). And supposedly the mechanism has a limit on the amount coming from the hot water feed-in pipe. To reduce the super hot angle, one should reduce the max temperature on the hot-water heater (if you are lucky enough to have control of that). That said, yes, I think it is crazy to have anything other than a control with two dimensions, one for volume and one for heat.

[Float]

We do have a one thing for flow one thing for temp kind of shower control however I rarely use the former in any other way except zero to full flow and vice versa. That said we do have very little water pressure in our appartment.

[Basil]

Oh my gosh I love this graph!! It made me laugh. The bad thing is when I take showers with my wife, she seems to like the red area literally. The hot is all the way on and I can't step under it.

[Babystrangeloop]

I have to admit it is a conspiracy to waste energy by forcing "hot water = max flow".

It is also so simple and cheap to fix if you are stuck with one of the single-control shower setups.

Just get one of these:

Alsons Incredible Head Power Shower Head
http://www.google.com/search?q=Alsons+Incredible+Head+Power+Shower+Head

or these:

Elite shower head
http://www.google.com/search?q=Elite+shower+head

The lever or button on the shower head allows you turn turn down the flow while the temperature is warm enough.

[Boros1124]

I do not know who prepared these statistics. Really have time. I can show you a gem. I'm Hungarian. This is an Hungarian book. But I still do not understand the title. http://www.konyv-konyvek.hu/book_images/13a/999637113a.jpg

[Pankaj Saraf]

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[samratpal]

I am loving this graph.this is really funny .