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Hansgrohe has a shower world about an hour from where I used to live. When we were remodeling our bathroom I spent a happy hour there, trying out all the different shower heads and installation options. It was really interesting to be able to move between different models and feel the difference.
Are you nude when you try them out? Or like you just stick your hand in? Or ?
I imagine they wore a swimsuit.
It’s up to you. I brought my swimsuit with but I was all alone and they promised no-one would disturb me. I think I could lock the door, if memory serves.
how to get around low-flow shower head laws.
Just remove the extra washer piece from the shower head
I used to take 30 minute showers, then I removed the extra washer in the shower head and can take a 10 minute shower.
Sorry, what does that mean? I don’t speak Californian.
to save water for everyone, avoid baths and take showers.
I’ll shower instead, but fuck anyone that wants me to save water for them
I’m a lot more worried about agriculture and golf course water usage (and runoff) than I am the shower gallons.
My comment was intended as a joke that is relevant to the image posted.
Would you like to spread other true but unrelated propaganda, like meat farms or other agricultural efforts taking up water?
Why wouldn’t they simply tax water use at progressive rates? If you use a lot of water, you have to pay a lot of money (ideally, towards water processing services).
Doing low-flow laws makes for easy loophole setups like this, not to mention simply buying a device in/from another state. I doubt their cops are kicking down doors for Suspicion of High-Flow Toilet.
They do have different rates depending on usage, at least here in Jersey, but those rates are basically 0-3000 gallons, 3000-10000, and 10000 and beyond, for example. So what I’m saying is they’re very high and basically only distinguish between residential, commercial, and agricultural. Although I shouldn’t say agricultural, because they often need to get special permits and pay different rates altogether.
I think Kramer knows a guy.
I’m constantly befuddled by the American desire to avoid handheld shower heads. How do you wash your armpits and asshole? Answer? You really don’t, you’re nose blind. I can still smell you, because I pressure wash mine with enough force to cleave marble.
This is an oddly specific misconception. Where do you get that idea? It’s fairly standard here for showers to have either a detachable head or separate wand. Cheap hotels and rentals might have shitty showerheads, but that’s definitely not specific to the US.
The current style trend is one that tends toward installing wall and ceiling shower heads in the US. I confirmed it with my friend who is involved with design and distribution of bathrooms fixtures. Tubs are out, tile showers with fixed soft water heads are in.
I wouldn’t be able to tell you about many other countries without offering information about myself that I’m not interested in spreading, but some countries are nearly 100% handheld. The gap between trending away from and near-ubiquity is pretty visible
The first handheld, detachable shower head was patented in the United States in 1889 by inventor Lucian L. Waterman.
Nominative determinism
You’d think they’d be ubiquitous by now, given that. Weird choice to invent something and trend away from it.
I have one of these and never use it, just assumed it was there to help those with vaginas get off
Pretty good for every crevice. Except toes, oddly enough.
I’m 60, American, and every shower in every home I’ve lived in had a handheld shower, since I was a kid.
It’s not an American thing. It’s just a certain people thing. I expect there are plenty of people in other countries who also don’t use them.
Beyond that, yeah, I agree, these things are the way to go:
I mean, I was mostly trying to be sensationalist about something that doesn’t really matter much, but the US is currently trending away from handhelds. Which i personally find silly as they’re just an all around better experience for me. But “there’s currently a downward trend” is much less fun to write than “sniff”
I have myself long wondered how those ceiling mounted showers are really supposed to be used, but just a few days ago an explanation was finally posted here: https://feddit.org/post/30725202
That makes me so deeply uncomfortable. My word
Handheld shower heads are really necessary for cleaning all the walls and corners of the shower itself. But, since my body moves, I have never had a problem getting a shower stream to sufficiently rinse any part of my body.
How do you clean your armpits…
My guy. Have you heard of raising your arms? It’s quite revolutionary.
*sniff*
…You can’t raise your arms or bend over slightly? Even a garbage motel shower can hit all my bits. Plus we have soap and washcloths here, or loofahs or those plastic poof things if that’s more your style. If you’re relying on water pressure rather than the surfactant properties of soap I suggest you get off your hygienic high-horse.
Naturally I use soap. That it needs to be stated explicitly, well… *sniff*
We got one of these a few years ago and boy, is it a game changer. Highly recommend to anyone.
Right? And they’re cheap as hell. A $30 head with like 45 settings will last 10 years and save enough water to visibly cut your water usage or your massage budget or your dildo needs.
I get that you’re doing a bit with the sniff thing, but I genuinely don’t understand how armpits benefit from a handheld sprayer. You can still get your pit pretty close to a mounted one, and it doesn’t take that much pressure to wash off soap.
It just makes things far easier, faster, and more complete, being able to direct the stream at your soapy bits. Shorter distance means higher pressure which means shorter, more thorough showers.
I find this interesting because everyone I know with the ability to change it has those. I would too if my apartment let me change the damn shower head.
Cuz like… If you ended up in a house with this monstrosity, it looks like you’d have to remodel the entire shower since it doesn’t have normal shower heads.
I always change my apartment shower head when I move in to a nice handheld one and when I move out I put the shitty renters one back on. The landlord doesn’t need to know any different.
I would never advise you to go against your tenant contract. That would be wrong and a trespass against your landlord. I would be willing to tell you that mine took about 20 minutes to install and uninstall, most of which was spent getting upset at myself for getting it wet while I still needed to screw some bits in.
But I’ve mostly seen people looking for the water wall because it seems “luxurious.” It’s immensely stupid, style over substance.
I would too if my apartment let me change the damn shower head.
Do it anyway and keep the apt head in a baggie somewhere. That’s what I did for like 5 yrs when I lived in an apartment because those heads are fucking trash
do… you not know how a regular showerhead works? you need to directly spray your asshole? you don’t know how to scrub your body properly?
the armpits is also crazy lol.
*sniff*
You can’t imagine getting an area clean without a detachable head? We use soap and scrub while under the shower head.
*sniff*
Now it just seems like projection
*sniff*
If you keep sniffing people might just think you’re into that
…*Sniff*
What a weird ass hill to die on
*clean ass
didn’t you read what he wrote? he thinks spraying an area down is all you need.
this dude is smelling his own ass and pits wherever he goes and blaming it on others.
The fact that OP thinks not using a detachable shower head doesn’t clean anything means he just sprays his pits and ass and doesn’t scrub.
Soap and washcloth
You don’t scrub?
I do
It’s good training for when you participate in a riot caused by a drinking water shortage.
I’m pretty sure these recirculate water when they’re operated like this. Otherwise it’s like a normal shower head.
Men’s Bathroom
If you ever watched Home Improvement, you would get this
The Man’s * episodes are funny as hell.
Man’s kitchen: “The microwave has three settings; Low, Medium, and Split your own atoms. Don’t look directly at the potato!”
WHARRGARBL
I’ve never found these more appealing than a good single adjustable angle wall mounted spout with decent pressure. For the life of me I don’t know why anyone would want a single ceiling mounted “rain” head. I think those are the worst.
Ugh yeah trendy hotels are into these rain water things and it’s just annoying. I’d be more into this pressure washer though.
Yes like being drowned. And I don’t want to get my hair wet every time I shower! Stayed w my brother, he had an overhead shower like that and I thought my hair would mildew, it was always wet.
What are shower caps?
Insufficient plastic bags, they can’t survive a direct hit like that. They do work for regular showers, to keep the incidental splashes off.
As someone who rocked a rain head … yeah totally. I also still had a ‘normal’ shower head on an adjustable flow valve. lol
… though the pure rain head wouldn’t have been too terrible. My hair is like 90% of what takes direct flow to clean. Asscracks etc aren’t ‘that’ bad to wash via finding the right posture and waiting a few moments for enough water to find its target.
… I am fully willing to admit my opinion may change drastically in 30 years when even a leaned over posture becomes a PITA.
For me water flowing over the back from an angle is quite relaxing. Water being dumped directly over my head is not.
I talked a DIYer out of installing a rain head on a stall shower–one of those that are about 3 feet square. I told him to imagine taking a shower where you couldn’t get out from under the water. You’d need to turn it off to lather and then turn it on to rinse. It was for a guest bathroom. He thought it was trendy and cool.
I remember staying in a capsule hotel in Osaka, Japan many years ago that had an extraordinary bathing area. Showers like these, and many others. Pools with varying temperatures of water.
I could finish my shower under a minute using this.
Which is good because you’ll only have 45 seconds of hot water.
I grew up on a cistern, so I can be done showering in about 2 minutes flat - faster if needed.
I feel my water pressure won’t be high enough
And yet no ass blaster nozzle 🤔🧐
Hey, did you know you can turn around? its like walking without going anywhere just rotating yourself.
Make sure you rotate around the vertical axis, and practice on soft ground before trying it in a wet hard surface like a shower.
Halp, I’m upside down, how do I stop this
Relax, are you familiar with imaginary numbers and their 3d extensions? you might have to read about quaternion rotations .
One part is always cold, then. The one advantage baths have over showers is that you can be warm all over. I don’t want a car wash shower but it would solve that.
if one side is cold and the other hot, you can spin really fast and average it out.
Viva la revolución
Like some common peasant? Next you’ll expect me to lather AND repeat!
Won’t anyone think of the poor datacenters?
feel the rain on your skin!
You bastard
