Bath or Shower?

[DaveRattlehead]

Somehow expectable right?

[Pirez]

(He implied that he goon under the shower head)

[Steo]

Definitely still think showers just make more sense in terms of getting cleaned. A bath can also be relaxing though.

[Master]

Shower any day. Baths are relaxing but take too long and I don't really have the patience for that.

[CosmicStrider]

Showers. It's just a lot faster, and I don't want to sit in dirty water. (And I sit around all day! So standing is good for me, right?)

Though, now I'm wondering if a bath or shower saves more water...One fills a tub, the other constantly runs...Hm.

[Steo]

Yeah and also there is the idea people say you are "sitting in your own filth" in a sense when bathing too. I'd only really do it if I needed to relax or had sore muscles, and I'd probably still rinse off afterwards with the shower anyway.

[Master]

I'd be curious to see if there has been any study on the hygeine of baths. I do think showers probably do take more water though long term, but I suppose on how long you shower.

[CosmicStrider]

Oh, true. A quick shower would obviously use less water. (Also never thought about rinsing with the shower after a bath. Wasn't a bright bulb back then. I just shower nowadays so no worries.)

The web says baths use more gallons, though it really all depends on how many gallons per minute your showerhead is using and how long your showers are.

(But what if you showered in a rain shower?!...Eh, nah that's probably full of chemicals. )

[Zarcatus]

Baths just take so very long. And while they feel good, they don't feel good enough to make me want to invest the time.

[Pirez]

(But what if you showered in a rain shower?!...Eh, nah that's probably full of chemicals. )

COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Master]

Yeah don't do that, that sounds awful. Plus there's a certain stickiness to rain that makes it all the more unpleasant.

[Cairnie]

I used to have a bathtub in the old place that could fit two people in and it did used to be nice especially in the colder months; the one we have now only fits one and I think in the course of living here so far I've only had about 2 or 3 myself, usually out of being really worn out or my time of month would get really bad.

[CosmicStrider]

And you might get struck by lightning too. So yeah, maybe don't do that.

But yeah, I'm more of a shower person. (Not rain showers. Just a normal shower. In a house.)

[Master]

I don't think I've ever been in a bathtub as an adult that didn't feel long enough. I'm not tall by any stretch but I just always felt like I had to have part of my legs bent.

[Pirez]

Ironically I'd welcome a bath right now.

But no bathtub in my flat.

[Cairnie]

It was more a case of one side being wider than the other and from above it looked like it was shoe sole shaped. We had a separate shower too but that used to get clogged up so much, not once did I have to put any Mr Muscle down the current bathtub like I did with that shower every other month.

[Steo]

I'd be curious to see if there has been any study on the hygeine of baths. I do think showers probably do take more water though long term, but I suppose on how long you shower.

I do wonder if there is a difference when it comes to hygiene. I'm not sure if it could ever really be proven about the whole "own filth" thing or if that's just an assumption. Maybe it only matters if you're literally filthy, like full of muck or something.

I don't think I spend long enough in the shower myself to use more water than I would for a bath, but our shower is an electric instant heat one. The bath just uses a hot water cylinder, which is less expensive most likely as gas is used to heat the water. The shower would use a ridiculous amount of power (8.5kW iirc), so I tend to only have short showers that are 5 minutes or less. I would say it's probably only even 3 minutes or so sometimes. Obviously it's going to be different if one has long hair.

[Master]

Quite so, I swear I spend 75% of my shower time on my hair, a body-shower only is a lot quicker. I suppose that is another thing, can you really wash and condition your hair in a bath?

Something to look into I suppose.

[Steo]

I do know that back in the day before we had showers, you would have to just do something silly like use a cup and pour water over your head while in the bath. Eventually then we'd have those showers you just plug into the taps, and use that just for washing your hair. Honestly, I don't know why we're not still doing that now, and only using the electric shower when the water is cold. The strength from the gravity fed bath taps are extremely high anyway, despite the shower needing a pump.

Though yeah, for me it's a body wash along with washing my head and face. My hair is usually only anywhere between 3-6mm long, so it doesn't take much washing.

[Master]

So in the places I've lived since being in employment, I've never had an electric shower, it's all been from mains and boiler. One of the places had a hot water tank, which made it fun in certain scenarios where multiple people were using the hot water, or if the hot water in boiler had been turned off for a while, no or an insubstantial amout of hot water comes out and I ended up having a less than pleasant showering experience.

Current place has a combi boiler, which is much nicer, but also still a bit of a finicky I find, as it's the tap setup you've described but it's not consistent and trying to finesse the hot and cold while showering and it never settling at a set temperature makes for its own hassle. That is to say in a roundabout way, I can sort of understand the preference for an electric shower, as I believe they're better suited for consistency. Though I also know thermostatic showers exist, and they sort of bridge the gap as they take mains hot/cold, but can dynamically adjust the mixture to provide a consistent temperature, so I think they also work rather well.