Daughter has discovered showers!

RavingMad

My eight year old has always shared a bath with her younger brother. Recently she's started to use the ensuite shower and loves it. So much so that I have to force her out after 10 mins for fear of the water bill rocketing (currently only paying £27pm)

I've always tried to preserve water i.e. Filling up a bottle of water whilst waited for the hot to come through etc so should I panic now that she wants to use the shower more often? I don't want to come across as a grumpy so and so :rotfl:

As a new build house, do I have the option of going unmetered? I'm guessing not? Should I just accept that I've been "underpaying" for years and this is just one of the factors of having kids

Syman

be thankful she wants to get showered. In my experience, my kids would rather do anything but..... and at least she is not running a daily bath, your water use will rocket then.

RavingMad

Yes, imo they're not quite at the stage of separate baths but not far off. So you do have a point there

Robin9

Look forward to the washing of the hair.

matelodave

You could fit a flow restictor or Eco shower head to the shower to reduce the volume of water being used. Give her a timer as well so she knows how long she's allowed to be in there.

coffeehound

10 minutes' use of a shower will be a similar amount of water to a typical 'half-full' bath so probably not much difference there. Perhaps one of those economical shower heads that use less water would help?

Cardew

You don't have the option of unmetered water.

I assume that the shower is run off the gas central heating and is not an electric shower?

For cleanliness purposes it is not necessary to spend more than 3 or 4 minutes in a shower.