Repeal 2.5GPM shower head law, now!

[NutBucket]

Nobody has mentioned green washing machines yet... what is the point when you have to run the rinse cycle at least twice just to get the soap out of your clothes?

Huh? Use less soap? Our front loader is vastly superior to any traditional machine I've used.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Nobody has mentioned green washing machines yet... what is the point when you have to run the rinse cycle at least twice just to get the soap out of your clothes?

Get a better machine and use HE soap. Seriously, I use a HE machine frequently and do not have problems with this.

Also, for the shower head stuff, what the hell are you people doing in there? 5 minute showers. Get wet, scrub all the crap off your body, rinse off, and get out.

 

[EliteRetard]

no im 6 foot tall and I prefer the normal shorter ones, not the tiny ones. those also suck

I just find the taller ones less comfortable
and having knees up is the proper way to poop see squatty potty

Knees up some is fine, still get that with the taller ones. Knees in your face, not cool. The old ones we had were ~14" with super thick wood seats (AND thick plastic spacers) trying to compensate. The new ones are 16" with maybe .5" slim plastic seat (I much prefer). My normal chairs are all 20", legs straight with my feet flat on the floor. If they make a toilet that tall, I admit that would be weird.

 

[ControlD]

Get a better machine and use HE soap. Seriously, I use a HE machine frequently and do not have problems with this.

Also, for the shower head stuff, what the hell are you people doing in there? 5 minute showers. Get wet, scrub all the crap off your body, rinse off, and get out.

You forgot fapping. You need to add at least 15 seconds for that. More if alcohol is involved.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Knees up some is fine, still get that with the taller ones. Knees in your face, not cool. The old ones we had were ~14" with super thick wood seats (AND thick plastic spacers) trying to compensate. The new ones are 16" with maybe .5" slim plastic seat (I much prefer). My normal chairs are all 20", legs straight with my feet flat on the floor. If they make a toilet that tall, I admit that would be weird.

I recently replaced my toilet in my house as it was one of those "hey use 3 gallons of water and ohhhh it didn't make it down even though it was nothing but water in there..." The new one I put in (American Standard) works amazingly well.

Thing I didn't pay attention to when I bought it is the height. It definitely feels like a bit more of a "throne." I would have preferred it to be a bit more normal height but oh well.

 

[Markbnj]

In this thread, an OP who is in favor of government regulating what people do in their private lives, but not showerheads.

 

[IronWing]

In this thread, an OP who is in favor of government regulating what people do in their private lives, but not showerheads.

I wonder how he feels about handheld showerheads? :sneaky:

 

[lupi]

Had to change out a faucet diffuser that went bad recently. Didn't really pay attention to flow ratings as they all seemd the same at the store. With it installed the reduction in flow is noticeable. Checked the old one and it said 2.25gpm and the new ones are 1.5gpm.

Can notice the difference in sound and pressure really feels less.

 

[DrPizza]

I'm confused, whats the issue with 1.6-2 gpm? I've even used 1 gpm showers, I still get wet. At full pressure they can just about blast your hair off, no issue removing dirt or soap. The lower flow showers also make the 10-15 gallons of hot water last longer.

Maybe I've never used 2.5gpm so I don't know the difference, but I have no issues even with the lowest flow rates. Me thinks you guys like to waste money and resources so nobody else can have it. 500 gallon bath LOL! That's well over a month of showers.

Your username seems to match this reply. The person I responded to said something about warming up. I suggested a 500 gallon hot tub, not a 500 gallon bathtub. Apparently, you've never heard of them.

Lots of jets of water pulsating, lots of bubbling - very relaxing. And, at 104 degrees, even more relaxing when it's well below freezing outside.

 

[OverVolt]

I recently replaced my toilet in my house as it was one of those "hey use 3 gallons of water and ohhhh it didn't make it down even though it was nothing but water in there..." The new one I put in (American Standard) works amazingly well.

Thing I didn't pay attention to when I bought it is the height. It definitely feels like a bit more of a "throne." I would have preferred it to be a bit more normal height but oh well.

Enjoy your colon aneurysm

 

[OverVolt]

what are you rambling about? none of that has anything to do with it. It's about water restrictions and general rationing.

epic supreme troll that is the OP, Felix Cat esq., lives in a drought-ridden desert such as Texas, where they demand daily watering of their non-native bermuda grass, pristine golf courses where none should ever be allowed to exist, and their 2.5gpm shower heads.

Now, I am 100% behind eradicating useless shit like bermuda grass where it does not belong, golf courses on every inch of mother earth, responsible water management everywhere (especially for idiots that live in a desert)...but I am also 100% with the OP on this:

You can pry my high flow shower head from my cold, dead hands!
/salute

(Same goes for low flow toilets--I shit bigger than most humans, and those things never ever work)

He's on drugs mang just let it go.

 

[MongGrel]

I like a nice not bath myself.

Nothing wrong with rinsing off with the shower at the end of it

 

[DrPizza]

They sell good show fixtures up in Canada? Can they be imported easily/legally? Can I just drive up to Toronto, go shopping, and drive back to the US with a sweet system that sprays water at me from 8 different angles?

 

[OverVolt]

Baths make you cleaner than showers. Yea I went there.

 

[rsbennett00]

Also, for the shower head stuff, what the hell are you people doing in there? 5 minute showers. Get wet, scrub all the crap off your body, rinse off, and get out.

Some of us care about our skin, hair, etc... How do you think I look 10 years younger than I am? Good hygiene takes time.

 

[highland145]

I like a nice not bath myself.

Nothing wrong with rinsing off with the shower at the end of it

So what are you bathing in to need a shower after?

 

[highland145]

Baths make you cleaner than showers. Yea I went there.

See above.

 

[OverVolt]

See above.

You actually get to soak in the water. Its better. My impeccably clean fingernails prove it. You just have to use good soaps. What you do affects your microbiota, not unlike probiotics in your gut. Its not like ecoli can survive on your salty, arid skin anyway.

Average person uses SLS, takes lukewarm low flow showers and has a ton of staph on them. Staph infections are skyrocketing.


I use glycerin soaps and take baths. I've had women comment out of the blue that I smell nice. So there you go. I towel off really well after a bath. The types of liquid soaps people these days use in showers are horrible. You all probably smell like a mixture of unwiped butt and staph.

 

[highland145]

You actually get to soak in the water. Its better. My impeccably clean fingernails prove it.

Pics of your manlet bag and skinny jeans.

You all probably smell like a mixture of unwiped butt and staph.

lol

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pisses me off that the government can tell us what we can't do in our own homes. So many nanny rules and regulations now days. I can understand codes, but they should not be forced. They should be safety suggestions, but if you choose to do something else then you should be allowed to. They just past a law here on CO detectors. I agree everyone should have one, but it should not be a law.

Glad shower head flow restrictions or light bulb wattages and stuff of that sort is not an issue here... yet. We get pretty decent pressure here depending on what part of town you're in. I tested mine at around 90 PSI, kinda mediocre but I've seen lower.

The issue is a lot of these things are to conserve energy, but that's doing it wrong. Instead of trying to conserve energy we should be making that energy cleaner and more abundant, and cheaper. But then you have all the naysayers who don't want wind turbines or solar farms in their back yards, they rather have oil spills in someone else's.

 

[highland145]

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[highland145]

snip.

Wind turbines cause bird kills and global warming.

 

[Red Squirrel]

They sell good show fixtures up in Canada? Can they be imported easily/legally? Can I just drive up to Toronto, go shopping, and drive back to the US with a sweet system that sprays water at me from 8 different angles?

I'm not aware of any restrictions here, I know my shower head is fine and it's new, unless it actually is restricted and I don't realize that I'm missing out. I'd have to measure it.

For toilets, dual flush toilets are typically used over low flush ones. Low flush for a pee and higher flush for a poop. Mine is 3.0lpf / 6.0lpf. The 3.0 is really only good for a pee but the 6.0 is fine for poop.


For shower head I imagine it would not be too hard to make your own system with jets of water coming from every direction. 1/2" pipes just sticking out of everywhere, you then put a cap on it with like a 1/8" hole. :awe:

 

[feralkid]

Get a better machine and use HE soap. Seriously, I use a HE machine frequently and do not have problems with this.

HE or not, most people use too much laundry detergent.

More isn't better, it's much worse.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703808904575025021214910714

 

[Number1]

We are on a well here and we have to watch the water consumption in the summer.

We use low flow shower heads and they work well.

As for the toilets, like everything else, you get what you pay for.
Toilet Flush Rating MaP is what you have to watch for. They higher the better if you want a good flush. We bought and installed 2 toilets since we moved here. The first one was a cheap model and it does have difficulty emptying at time. I spent a little more on the second toilet and I followed the salesman recommendation to get one MaP Tested @ 1000 grams per flush. It works flawlessly.

http://www.dev.map-testing.com/performance-toilets-testing/background.html

http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/grho/grho_006.cfm