….that you have to use a hotter mix in the shower if you have a “low flow” shower head installed. Could this mean that you use less water overall but MORE hot water?
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Could this mean that you use less water overall but MORE hot water?
No. How can you use more hot water without raising the temperature of the mix?
But you have to raise the temperature of the mix at the head...the low flow head esentially atomizes the water, which increases it's surface area resulting in more surface area. This particles then cool faster before they strike the skin than the more solid stream of a regular head.
I know there must be some sort of formula for this...where are the physicist plumbers?
Is the shower head above the HWT? If so, I believe hot water rises faster than cold and water is basically incompressible.
I put a jacket on my gas water heater and I generally have too hot a water.
with a low flow head you don't get as much HW on you so you cool down faster and thus turn up the mix to compensate.
PHYSICS and Psychology.
Pete for Governor!!
You're on the right track I think.
I think it is an issue of the increased surface area increasing cooling through evaporation.
no ...
because the first thing U should do is pull that silly "low flow" thing the hell outta there!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
I'll bet you like compact flourescent bulbs too.....
I used to work with a guy who would always take the little rubber disk out of the low flow because "I can piss more than that". He was way older than me but I had alot of laughs that year.
Have a good day
Cliffy
Older than you and yet apparently had no prostate trouble. (Umm, better tell you I'm trying to be funny--don't want anyone to get mad at me (or in this case, p'd off).
Edited 4/9/2005 8:43 pm ET by Danno