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Look, man. I have a large body. There are many folds and crevices. I’m not proud of how much effort it takes to keep myself clean, but I’m proud that I’m putting in that effort.
Shaving
Crying on the floor
The whole routine takes a while
Got a heat pump so now long showers use much less energy.
Now makes me wonder what the COP is during the summer, if you time the shower so that the heat pump works during the hot part of the day it should be pretty high. 30°c outside, barely needs to work to heat the water.
Doing my installation now for hot water. Combining gas and direct electricity. Will be more or less endless showers with a small bill. First gas then keeping it hot with electric one. Wished I had a heat pump but for another time with bigger budget.
I got the heat pump and all pipework/radiators replaced, the government paid for a bit over half of the total cost as they give you £7.5k now toward replacing a boiler with a heat pump. Plus everything is VAT free as part of the install, so it was pretty much no more expensive than doing the same thing with a gas boiler. The pipework kinda needed replacing anyway, it was shit. Putting more efficient radiators on is a fairly small job when you are having all the pipework replaced already.
Got it done before moving into the house when we bought it, if you already live there I could see it being quite disruptive.
Yea , doing it all by myself as well so nothing close to that. However this is just for water not for the heating , got pellets, wood and sun for that. Think I can get something as well for updating heating and insulation here. so will look into that later.
I really want to take super long showers, but I pay the water bill so…
Fact is, the shower we have is… Strange to say the least.
It’s a wand. Only a wand. Most wand showers also hang up in a way that allows you to just, use it like a normal shower… Not this one. I actually hate it, but don’t have the budget to replace it right now, since it will likely need a partial renovation for the bathroom and that’s our only shower, so everyone is going to get a bit stinky while it’s reno’d.
What I want to do is to add a new bathroom with a shower/bath, then reno the current one, so we can shower during the reno.
Edit: before anyone else comments about how easy it is to change your shower head, I don’t think you understand exactly how strange our shower is. There’s nowhere to put a “normal” shower head. There’s no pipe coming out of the wall at head-height that we can connect a shower head to. The wand literally goes into the wall of the tub when it’s not in use (similar to how the sprayer things work on some kitchen sinks… If you’re familiar with that, but the controls are not just a button on the handle to turn it on, they’re on the edge of the tub.
Weird enough for you?
I can see a cutout in the wall panel of the shower where the diverter should go, and it’s not cut open. We will need to tear out about half of the wall panels to put in the diverter and a standard shower head connector thing… I’m not a plumber, but the one we hired when the original hardware in the shower started leaking took about three days or more to find hardware to install that would work with the odd layout of it.
I know it doesn’t really come across by text, so if you want some semblance of what I’m dealing with, the wand is a bit like this one… Or at least closer to this than what you have in your showers: https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/Bath-Rim-Pull-Out-Shower-Head.html
Yeah. I hate it.
Do you know how long a renovation would take? Maybe you could get away with washing with a wet rag/towel to save building a whole new bathroom. Unless you also just want two bathrooms because that’s neat to have.
Oh. We want another bathroom for completely unrelated reasons. Since we considered this place, we knew that we wanted to renovate to put in a bathroom and some other things. It’s always been a part of the plan.
To be brief: the house purchase was a joint venture by myself and my partner with my brother and his partner. We have two family units under the same roof. I won’t get into all of the reasons we decided to go this way, but needless to say, there’s one shower for essentially two families.
Where the current bathrooms and shower are (we have two bathrooms right now, only one has a shower), they’re in my brother’s “side” of the house. My “side” of the house isn’t even plumbed with water at all.
So the plan is, and always has been, to do renovations at some point to bring water over to that side of the house, and have a bathroom installed for my partner and I. We also want our own kitchen and a couple other small things. There’s space to do it, the garage is far larger than we need, so we’re going to convert part of it over to be the new bathroom space, and there’s a good area in our current “living room” that we want to turn into a type of galley kitchen… More or Less.
So by getting those renovations done first, we would have a second shower and the situation in the house would just kind of reverse. Instead of us going into their part of the house to get a shower, they would come to our side until their shower is finished.
That makes a lot of sense, wish you good luck on the whole process
Thanks. I’ll need it.
I’m winning insane arguments with myself in there.
You’ll have to tell me how you do that. I always lose insane arguments with myself.
If you switch which you is you you’ll be winning those arguments instead.
I’m confused , my super ego is battling my alter ego and I lost track on who is who
the noise of the shower is the only thing that drowns out the tinnitus i’ve had for over 20 years. so yea, i’m often in there til the water goes cold.
The scalding water serves as a moderately acceptable substitute for the warmth of human contact I’m so terrible at cultivating.
Okay first thing i do is i turn on the water, and hold the shower head in my hand, pointing it away from myself until the water is hot.
Then i quickly spray the water all over my body, so i am completely wet. Then hang up the shower head, and step under it.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Then i put shampoo in my hair, armpits and crotch, then finally soap everywhere else.
Make sure to get all the soap off, then dry myself. Total of ~45min.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
After this, I first need to remember if I’m already done washing myself or haven’t started yet.
lol I do the same thing but I do the washing part first. Because sometimes I will be in their so long I forget if I washed myself or not yet, so I just do it first
TIL shampooing non-head hair
I have had a beard for about 20 years. The world has not run out of people who have to ask how I clean it and are somehow surprised that I use shampoo on it. “Oh, yeah, I suppose it is hair!”
Wait, that’s not obvious?
Strangely not to some people.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Pretty much this for me.
I’ve gotten pretty good at 10 minute showers before work, but I absolutely blank out from time to time.
I used to stare off into nothingness in the shower. It would take maybe 7-8 minutes to actually wash myself; sporadically throughout the process, I’d zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Now, I’ve got long curly hair that needs frequent tending to. Unless I want my showers to be an hour+ long, I gotta stay focused. I still stare off into nothingness while brushing and whatnot, that helps take away the dread.
sporadically throughout the process, I’d zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Same. And when I come back to the present, I will sometimes lose track of what was washed already because I was on autopilot/dissociating before stopping to stare at nothing.
Next time you wonder whether you already shampooed:
Grab a stretch of hair between thumb and middle finger. Pull/away from head. Listen for squeak. If you hear the squeak, put the shampoo down!
Came to say this!
Thick, curly waist-length hair requires that I be in there. God help me if I want to do a second pass at it.
falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.
Finally! Someone gets me! 💙
Dude, I’m shaving! Shaving my face and everywhere else I need. Also brushing my teeth. Still doesn’t take 30 but it feels good to be hot water my god. Just like a bath or hot tub. Why rush?
This is why the world gave us rain and waterfalls.
And climate change to heat them up?
I zone out and feel like I’ve been in there for hours, then I exit and it’s been eight minutes. I don’t understand why, but the shower completely removes my perception of time (normally one of my better skills). Luckily, it doesn’t go the other way.
I don’t know what it is for other people, but I am hypersensory, so I am basically catatonic 90% of the time in the shower.
I have always been extremely sensitive to like, everything.
I used to get abused by my father for being “too sensitive” about almost anything, emotionally, physically, etc. So I did what any “real man” would do, and masked, masked masked. Spent decades of my life forcing myself to be hard, be strong, push through discomfort, show no pain, no emotions, no sensitivity.
As one might imagine, it didn’t do me well in the long run. I was only recently diagnosed as autistic, I haven’t told anyone outside my partner, as nobody would understand, the mask is glued on now, this is just me. A shell on the outside and a hidden universe inside. The long showers are total oblivion and I wish I could just stay in that water stream for days without end.
I’m not diagnosed, but uh…I felt this pretty hard.
Sorry to hear toxic masculinity hurt you like that. If it helps any I can confidently say you’re not alone and if you ever find a way to even just shift the mask a little there will be people who will accept you. The idea that a man should be a stoic is such bullshit and it hurts us all.
Great time for a quick fap!
The water is terrible for friction
Shower sex seems like it would be great until you learn ironically it feels like the dryest worst sex.
You can turn the water off but then you just have a small space with the added bonus of a slipping hazard.
That’s what conditioniare is for, but agree, sexy stuff in water is a turn off for me.
Someone hasn’t heard the stories about jizz clogging shower drains.
Just the one? You have to pump those numbers up!
