Bathroom Shower Heads

I'll start with my conclusion and then I'll give you six reasons why:

Low flow showerheads are greatly improved and you will save more money on your water, sewer and gas bill even if you already have a shower head low flow.

Here's why. Just as in a market where there is demand for a product, innovations occur. Significant changes have been made in recent years. I will first tell you about the innovations and then I'll explain it for you.

Change # 1 - showerheads lower speed

This change is simple math. For example, we will compare the 1.59 gpm Evolve Roadrunner Showerhead to a 2.5 gpm shower head. For every minute the shower is running 0.91 gallons less gallons of water used.

Suppose three people a day taking a minute a 10 showers for one year (3 showers per day * 10 minutes per shower * 0.91 gallons per minute * 365 days per year) you can use nearly 10,000 gallons of water heated under year.

At about $ 0.03 per gallon (cost of water, sewer and gas) is around $ 300 per year! That's fine, you say, but what if you do not like the way the shower feels. Let's change # 2.

Change # 2 - Better Feeling Showerheads

The apparatus first low-flow have been strangled by versions wasters of water. Showerheads with low flow was the first small hole which means the water is released much more quickly - even to the point it hurts to take a shower.

The next step was to aerate the water - or in other words the air were injected in the flow of water to make water drops feel more. Showers felt better, but a side effect was that the air cooled the water which means more hot water must be mixed with the cold to reach a comfortable temperature.

Low flow showers feel better conserve water, but use more energy. More work is needed - look at the change # 3.

Change # 3: Full Face Spray

The first low-flow reduces the number of spray nozzles which limited the amount of water that could pass through. And the water that went through was much faster and was painful on the skin.

More recent versions have reduced the opening where water enters the showerhead and spray nozzles added more so that the same amount of water through several holes to reduce speed below the threshold of pain in most people.

The latest models now have a full face spray pattern that evenly disperses water to make a pleasant sensation shower experience that has eliminated the need to aerate. There was a lower rate, non-aeration, the water and energy saving product - very good. But they were better. Let's change # 4.

Change # 4: ShowerStart

In many residences and the hotels where you turn the water of a shower he takes a minute or two to get warm. Most people turn around and do something other than water warms. Or more likely until there is steam coming out of the shower.

The latest and greatest showerheads actually disable itself once the water is hot. Then, when you're ready to jump, you pull chain activation and you have a hot shower.

Let's do some more math. Suppose it takes 2 minutes to heat the shower. For 2 minutes at 2.5 gpm 3 people per day, 365 days a year (assuming they are not a shower back to back to back) is more than 2,700 gallons of warm to water per year. At $ 0.03 per gallon another $ 80 flows down the drain.

Wow - we now have a shower head that is less flow, non-aeration on and off after the water is warm until someone steps in and pulls the chain of activation. But what about the crap that's in our water these days. Lime reduces the build flow of water, changes spray patterns and simply watch.