Four Steps to a More Efficient Shower

February 19th, 2009 by Seldom

This Instructables article has some good info:

1. Enclose the stall.
2. Install a foot pedal controller
3. Add a check valve to make sure the hot water and cold water don’t backfeed when the flow to the head is off.
4. Shower head (Recommendations).

Instructables | Cozy Low Energy Shower

Tags: Chapter 15 - Creating a Connection, shower

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2 Responses to “Four Steps to a More Efficient Shower”

1. buschwacker says:

   February 20, 2009 at 11:58 am

   “He missed one point that in a full enclosure, shower heads with tiny
   droplets are no worse than those with large droplets.

   But insulation and mass matter: a 10-minute 1.25 gpm shower in 105 F
   water heated from 55 takes 10×1.25×8.33(105-55) = 5206 Btu, with no heat
   recovery.

   If a 2′x6′x8′ sealed enclosure has R1 walls, that only adds
   10/60(105-70)152ft2/R1 = 887 Btu.

   But masonry (eg hollow blocks) might have 5 Btu/F-ft2 and require
   (105-70)5×152 = 26,600 Btu to warm up.”

   -Nick Pine
2. buschwacker says:

   February 20, 2009 at 2:24 pm

   http://www.sunfrost.com/efficient_shower.html
   http://www.sunfrost.com/images/home-power-shower-copy.jpg