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[-] db2@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

What kind of fucked shower knob turns counterclockwise

[-] lapping6596@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Australian, just like their toilets spinning water the other way.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

USA checking in with one almost exactly like the picture

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[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

In seriousness, it’s often about water pressure and how your hot water is fed. If you have very high water pressure normally but a solar hot water system where gravity and input pressure play a role, you’ll naturally have an imbalance on hot and cold. When you turn the handle on the shower you’re lining up two holes in the shower cartridge (in the handle) with the two hot and cold water pipes, the resulting mix comes out a third hole which feeds the shower head. As you turn the handle, one hole opening gets smaller and the other bigger- thereby changing the ratio of hot : cold. When you already have a huge pressure of cold water pumping in, the degree of rotation needed to go from warm/almost just right to PURE HOT WATER is minuscule. Usually the cold will stay pretty cold for about half of the handle range of motion too.

If water input pressure being high is a problem you can put a reducing valve on your system overall or you can buy Venturi style pumps which add pressure into your hot water system.

You’ll normally find when it’s pressure imbalance that it’s easier to balance the temp when the tap isn’t open full bore. But who wants a weak-ass shower stream!!

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Observe while I shower comfortably with:

[-] slippyferret 27 points 3 months ago

When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Growing up in rural France, we had these at home for as far as I can remember. They may not have been the norm 30 years ago, but at least common.

[-] spooky2092 6 points 3 months ago

Interesting, so it adjusts the flow of hot/cold in the fly to keep a consistent temp? That's amazing, thought I imagine it would have the same issue I have at the end of the shower where it's on 100% hot just to eke out a bit more time

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

You can adjust the temp on your water heater to solve that.

[-] Terevos@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago
[-] Decq@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I really don't understand how this is still not the standard everywhere.. The cheapest ones aren't even that expensive and already way better than the alternative.. Don't think I've not showered with one of these in the last 25 years, except for in some kind of social housing projects homes.

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Same man, it's been a dream since installing this.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

These things existe for at least 30 years, I don't understand why anyone would want to use anything else for a shower or bathtub.

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[-] hoefnix@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, but that is not a fair comparison, these are European.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

This technology is only possible with degree Celsius. It is impossible to adapt to degree Fahrenheit.

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[-] zqps@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except British homes which have two separate showerheads, one fully hot and the other fully cold.

The trick is to spin.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

British when straight into inventing the radar and completely skipped over the invention of warm water.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay I'm gonna be real. I didn't understand the meme at first and thought you were showing a melted door handle and the guy in the meme was trying to melt another door handle with his mind

I was fully prepared to read a bunch of comments about how are door handles so sensitive to heat due to their metallic composition and how you absolutely cannot melt things with your mind that the actual comments tripped me

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

You need at least the heat of your hand to melt metals. Or at least at least the heat of a cold but not cold wave winter day.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Weird.

I saw "melts tungsten" and my brain decided this was in German.

[-] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 30 points 3 months ago

Fun fact: the german word for tungsten is Wolfram

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

Wolfram alpha suddenly makes even less sense

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same lmfao

I think it's so late here that I assume Lemmy is sprechening Deutsch by default

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Speaking as a Dane, I too had to recalibrate from "heavyrock" to "tungsten the element" 😁

[-] Blass_Rose@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago

Set your water heater lower. Like: make sure it's above 120 at all times (130+ preferably) to prevent legionnaire's, but 140 is PLENTY for most home uses. And it means you get a bigger range to move your mixer taps to.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

That's Fahrenheit right? Or are you suggesting 100+ Celsius?

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Your water heaters don't have a "Steam Blast" setting? How do your bidets even work? Do they just dribble cool water on your anus? How weird.

[-] NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Celsius of course. Only babies shower in 140 Fahrenheit!

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Last i checked, that would no longer make it hot water, but I use the dumb numbers where 212 is boiling

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

Actually at household water pressures, water's boiling point is somewhere from 140-160°C, so it's actually somewhat plausible. I'm sure some less heat tolerant stuff would have to be upgraded, but the system's total pressure would be about the same (with the added danger that the consequence of a pressure failure would be a steam explosion instead of a leak).

And of course turning your faucet on hot would now blast out a stream of boiling water propelled by superheated steam, which is probably less than ideal.

[-] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

So you're saying I can make lattes from my tap with a small upgrade? Sold.

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[-] hoefnix@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
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[-] drhodl@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

You should just move to a more tropical area. Where I live, I only ever use the "Cold" tap and sometimes, even that is too warm.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The cartridge is likely bad. They get clogged up with lime scale over time and start to perform worse and worse. Either replace the cartridge or the whole faucet itself.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Because it is hard to make a cheap valve that has a wide mixing 'sweet spot'.

Rich people showers don't have this problem

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Nah, Brougham.

All the way to the left, then back off 1/16".

Burn me, baby.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago

My kitchen faucet is like this. It's one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

Come to Japan (and, so I've heard, several European countries) where we have a temperature setting on the tap. Mine caps at 40 by default, but you can press a little button and make it hotter if desired (up to however hot your water heater puts out).

[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

So there are lots of good answers, but there's one I haven't seen: The type of shower control in the photo is probably low quality, cheap, meaning the internal parts do a poor job of mixing the hot/cold water.

Adjusting the water heater may help, but you might also consider upgrading the shower faucet.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Lower flow temperature makes it easier to adjust.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Turn down the temperature of your water heater.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

But that reduces the maximum length of your shower.

[-] ne0phyte@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

And saves both energy and water.

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