This took me a minute. I can’t remember the last time I was someplace that didn’t have a balancing valve.
Yeah was a problem with back when you couldn’t be on the phone and the internet at the same time. Or you still live in a really cheap fucking apartment?
still live in a cheap fucking apartment
Welcome to the majority of America living situations. And most of the time they aren’t even fucking cheap. To live in a place with basic standards of living that are in line with modern tech is a luxury here.
Not just the states….im in a (rented) house in Germany that was built in the 90s (so not that old to compare to a lot of other houses here) and deal with this everyday. Coupled with the insanely long cleaning times and frequency of use due to how small they are for the “economic” washing machines and dishwashers, fluctuating water pressure and water temps are always a surprise….
Is it like that? I remember this being an issue in the 1970s. Even crappy old places that I lived in as a student had balancers. I think they’ve been required here since the…90s?
Lol “required”. Landlords in this shit hole are barely required to have a habitable domicile much less one that is updated to modern standards.
Required? In the states? Nah. My last house in the states was built in 2000, not a single balancing valve or thermostatic valve in the place. 4 bed 2.5 bath.
USians love to shit on Soviet apartment blocks, but you know what Soviet apartment blocks have? Separate water supply in the kitchen and the bathroom, with enough pressure for everything unless like half of the floors in a high-rise decide to shower simultaneously.
I am living in a good enough apartment and is still suffering from it. Well, the apartment is old now, maybe that’s why…
Dishwashers use much less water.
They also corrupt the soul.
Just like electricity and indoor plumbing lol
thats the soap pod companies
I think it depends on how many people live at a place. I live alone and would never be able to fill up a dishwasher, using a lot more water for a few dishes than I would.
- Buy more dishes so you can go longer between washes
- Buy a half-height dishwasher. They exist, I owned one that lived on the floor of my bathroom.
I live alone and I fill up my full size dishwashers every few days. If you don’t eat ordered/preprocessed food you can also just chuck pots and pans in the bottom rack.
Dishwashers use a lot less water than hand-washing. Even if there’s a little bit of room left, it’s still a net positive. There’s no reason for anyone to hand-wash unless they live in a tiny NYC broom closet or exclusively eat take-out in disposable containers.
Tbf I should have added that I don’t have the space anyway, I might have considered it if I had. I live in a small flat in europe, so probably what you would consider a NYC broom closet.
You can also fill up the dishwasher over the course of a couple of days. Makes things even more convenient.
I have Bob, the mini dishwasher, perfectly sized for that use case. Now, the fact that it is designed to use proprietary washing cartridges on the other hand… (At around 5 to 10 price of regular washing powder too. Thankfully mine is old enough to not notice you opened the door if you’re fast enough)
i am too tall to fit in my dishwasher
Newer homes have tankless constant water heaters and it’s the greatest thing in the world.
Older homes with tankless water heater experience the opposite reaction: when someone flushes a toilet all the cold water rushes there. And you get some: hot - hothot - boiling! water.
Lol, in Germany those are only installed in shitty old houses with crap plumbing. They drive up the electricity bill like there’s no tomorrow. Just install adequate plumbing when building a new house and never deal with this problem.
the house I live in has tons of problems but not this. there are 4 showers, 3 kitchens, 2 laundry, and I have never had the water run cold from hot running out. I’d trade that for internet that doesn’t randomly cut out for hours at a time.
4 showers, 3 kitchens, 2 laundry
What kind of gigamansion is that, wtf? How many bedrooms, and how many people/servants live with you?
Standard 70’s Yugoslav house I’d say. They built 'em intended to be multi generational. A good 1000l hot water storage in the basement is more than enough for something of this size.
this is spot on lol
And you live in there alone, with your family, or with multiple generations as intended?
its packed. there’s like no space for anything, including in the garage, and every room has at least 1 person
It’s like a community living type situation I take it?
Wherein by ‘multigenerational’, you presumably mean that at least three generations live under one roof. Like in one of those Gabriel García Márquez novels.
Less and less in modern society. Since people start getting kids later in life, grandparents (your own) usually aren’t around anymore by the time you have kids, so its becoming more like two generations.
Probably also five boilers in the basement.
Thankfully I have a tankless water heater and don’t need to deal with this anymore.
How has the electricity bill changed after switching to it? I’m on the fence for getting one.
I’ve switched from similiar-sized apartment with a tank heater to a house with a tankless heater. My bills are close enough that it isn’t super easy to tell. total it was about 20-40 more a month for the location switch.
The real difference is how often you use it. You’ll save money if you use it sparingly (as opposed to an always on tank heater), but you’ll definitely spend more if you don’t (because infinite hot water access!). Just make sure it and it’s power source is sized for the house it’s going into.
You’ll definitely want to pay for an electrician to get it on a dedicated circuit to power it. Otherwise you’ll just get infinite tepid water instead.
I’ve talked to many plumbers about this and what I’ve learned is that if you don’t have gas, it won’t be as good (on average). New construction with dedicated power is a different story, but retrofits are often limited to whatever the old water heater was using, which by definition isn’t enough. Running new power is likely to be a headache.
Now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ve never considered tankless water heaters being gas powered also as an option. My house is all electric so I only have that variable to deal with.
I wish I could give you an answer. It’s a new build house that came with it already installed so I didn’t have a good reference. Also, it’s gas, so minimal electric use.
“Okay don’t take it far” what does that mean?
It’s a joke on “taking a shower”, as in she is literally going to take it with her somewhere. You can tell she’s not amused by the joke either ^^
Ok duh I did not get that one
Hehe, this used to happen a lot to us in our previous home.
We don’t have that problem and have a water heater (not tankless). I think they just do something different with the plumbing here in Japan most of the time.
The good old “parallel vs serial” patterns. The later being cheaper, it is used everywhere but in those places where the owner specifically ask for parallel because of knowing its advantages.
No woman will ever complain when a man is doing the dishes.
Has more to do with what temperature they run than their gender. My wife runs hot, so she wouldn’t. My ex runs cold. She absolutely would.
Never fuck with a woman’s warmth.
Hmm… how much water is One Punch Man using? Really you just need two basins, one with lukewarm water (with soap in it, for cleaning) the other can be colder (without soap, for rinsing.) Saitama really doesn’t need to keep the tap running.
Uh, you need even less, you first wet everything. Then stop the water, scrub everything with soap. Then turn water on and quickly rinse everything. Depends on the amount of dishes but you should never use enough water to freaking fill the basin, that’s insane amount of waste.
Our house has zero issues like this and I have no idea why not. I can flush the toilet while she showers, no problem.
This isn’t some fancy new home! It’s Habitat for Humanity, tight structure and insulation, shitty amenities. 🤷🏻
It just depends on how the water is routed to each appliance. Some have them inline, so running one affects the other. Some have them separate. Some do a bit of both
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I would just stay out of the light of
firewater and just wait. And like waste more time…I mean when I was younger I was petty af and I didn’t care about running up the water bill, so please don’t judge me for wasting water lol…
But yea I kinda just chill… literally… outside of the water… until I can sense the warmth again…
Don’t feel like raising my voice, they’d just ignore me…
Also… sometimes its the pressure… its annoying when it gets low pressure, doesn’t feel as satisfying…
How is she standing between the wall and the counter?
It’s one of those kitchens where the counter doubles as a table if you get bar stools
And the vertical line? Lools like the corner of a room to me
A corner but it’s bending the other way.
