electric showerheads: will they kill me?

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Basically, I don't want to pay the gas company yet another large deposit that I won't get back. One friend, who I think used one of these (or somthing similar) when he lived in India, emphatically was like, "NO, EMILY! You're too careless!"

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

surprisingly NOT a louis jagger thread

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

If you get your electric shower installed properly then you will not die. They are rubbish for showering though, a pathetic drizzle.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

The ones which only have a cold water feed and heat the water themselves are rubbish. Sadly, this is most of them. We have a rather nice one with a hot feed as well, and a nice big pump inside it (without the pump it would be crap too, because it's on virtually the same level as our hot water tank).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

But, as a pathetic drizzle, are they more eco-friendly?

Some of the more powerfuil showers challenge the idea that showers save more water than baths.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

My powerful shower uses about 1/3 of the water that a bath would (I tested this by putting the plug in one day)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

You're not basing this on counting a bath as using water up to the brim?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

and factor in the time it takes for a shower wank

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

i blew up mrs fiendish's dad's electric shower at the weekend. mind, it was 13 years old and had just been moved from a dribbly private supply to the mains, so i refuse to accept blame.

still, it was marginally scary watching water gushing out of all sides of the actual box, while the little "power" light flickered a lot. "I COULD HAVE DIED!" i said, melodramatically (and maybe even correctly), when mrs fiendish swore at me about it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

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