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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thermostatic shower mixers are not a thing where you live?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not common in the US I believe, or at least I haven't heard or seen one of them.

You just gotta "guess" what's correct and then feel the water coming out

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the house I grew up in, you’d also have to hope no one flushed the downstairs toilet. If so, the cold water pressure would suddenly drop, leaving a lot more hot water coming out of the shower head.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew this was going to be the link and was imagining the Mozart part at the end

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, not Mozart.

No ill intent, I just like classical music :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And here I was thinking I was cultured.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also not a problem with a thermostatic mixer. The temperature stays the same, you just get less water pressure for a while.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, they are super common here in the Netherlands. Not expensive either. You just set it to a temperature and it’ll keep it constant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If I'm thinking of the same device, the one I used in Sweden and Norway, it's fantastic. It's in the shower itself, so you don't have to contend with 30m of cold pipes between a less effective water heater and the nozzle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can highly recommend it. Get a good name-brand one, like Grohe. Example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I havent had a problem setting the shower temperature since I live in a house that has one.

Its great.