Half hour showers!!!

piggybankrupt

Has anyone any advice on any sort of timing device I can fix to my shower to make it cut out after say 5 mins instead of the half hour my teenagers are using it for at the moment!!:mad: I need to reduce our electricity consumption & this seems an obvious area!

I've seen an American device but it looks like it's for fixed shower heads not the flexible hoses we use (from electric shower).

Thanks!

1carminestocky

piggybankrupt wrote: »

Has anyone any advice on any sort of timing device I can fix to my shower to make it cut out after say 5 mins instead of the half hour my teenagers are using it for at the moment!!:mad: I need to reduce our electricity consumption & this seems an obvious area!

I've seen an American device but it looks like it's for fixed shower heads not the flexible hoses we use (from electric shower).

Thanks!

We have a rule in our house - 10 mins max or have a bath! We enforce it rigidly, even knocking on the door if they go over (I've also been known to flush the toilet if I get no response!) My eldest son's girlfriend once spent FORTY FIVE MINUTES in the shower (I have an Owl monitor and was watching it seething but prevented from shouting through the door by my wife :mad: ). We sat them all down shortly after that episode and explained the reasons for the '10 mins or bath' rule. We have a 10.8kwh leccy shower and it costs approx £1.20/hr to run. 5 people in the house spending 45 minutes in the shower equates to ONE THOUSAND SIX HUDRED AND FORTY TWO POUNDS per year! :eek:

KimYeovil

Go old tech. Snip the electric supply to the shower then replace it with a rubber hose mixer. After five minutes, turn on all the other hot water taps in the kitchen and rest of the house.

Crude, but very effective.

newlywed

We're just having a shower fitted, already planning for this issue.

We've got a fused switch outside the bathroom in the hallway.... cuts the electricity to the shower and nothing else

woozywendy

We had an electric shower when we first moved into our house and I already knew how expensive they were to run. If my dh spent too long in the shower I used to flip the switch to off which was luckily located in the airing cupboard.

alleycat`

I'd assume that if it is an electric shower that it will be on a separate circuit on the fuse box.

Flip the switch -

Or alternative is (with these new "safety" locks on bathroom doors) is to lob a pan of cold water over the top of the shower curtain (too mean?).

It'll get their attention :rotfl:

(edit) just the water - not the pan as well.

Magentasue

My teens and twenty somethings respond to threat of being removed from network (their virtual life more important than most things). We haven't 'done' the bathroom yet but an electric shower isn't on the shopping list.

piggybankrupt

Thanks everyone! some useful ideas!

dannymccann

piggybankrupt wrote: »

Has anyone any advice on any sort of timing device I can fix to my shower to make it cut out after say 5 mins instead of the half hour my teenagers are using it for at the moment!!:mad: I need to reduce our electricity consumption & this seems an obvious area!

I've seen an American device but it looks like it's for fixed shower heads not the flexible hoses we use (from electric shower).

Thanks!

Ask them?

Cardew

dannymccann wrote: »

Ask them?

Don't ask them, Tell them!!!!!!

If you are going to get aggro for telling them no more than 5 minutes, you will get aggro for a device that cuts off the shower - or they will have several 5 minute showers.

Plushchris

Seriously, BUYING a device to turn the shower off to save money??? Thats spending money to save money?

There is a something a lot cheaper, its called a switch, you'll find one in your fuse box!