Posted on 12/16/2020 5:02:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Trump administration has relaxed a regulation restricting water flow from showerheads, a pet peeve of President Donald Trump, who complained that he wanted more water to make his hair “perfect.”
Since 1992, federal law has dictated that showerheads shouldn’t spew more than 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) of water a minute. As newer shower fixtures came out with multiple nozzles, the Obama administration updated the ruling, stating that 2.5 gallons was still the limit regardless of how many nozzles were running. The new ruling, issued on Tuesday, now says each showerhead can emit 2.5 gallons a minute.
“So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out,” Trump said last summer. “You want to wash your hands? The water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.”
Also this week, the Energy Department issued a ruling that sets no limits on energy or water use for new washers and dryers with short cycle times in their “normal” setting. The rule sets up separate product classifications for residential clothes washers and dryers with cycle times of fewer than 30 minutes and 45 minutes for front-loading washers. …
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Let the market decide.
Where we’ve lived, we don’t need to restrict water usage as we have always had plenty of it.
I’ve had a Speakman shower head for 25 years. Probably 5 gallons per minute flow at least. I make the money, I want the shower.
I travel a LOT as a working engineer. I travel with a crescent wrench, a 1/4” drill bit and a t-hold handle. Every hotel room I stay in gets the restrictive plate removed. No more crappy showers on the road.
Buy a cheap dishwasher
My sis owns a waterfall.
There is place where about a dozen are sitting that have been there since the 90s.
No doubt all the insides are long since gone.
Guess they will be landfill fodder at some point.
While he was at it did he do anything about toilets? I’ve considered going to Canada (about 5 hours from me) and bringing back a Canadian toilet...but I don’t know how the Customs people would react.
Remove (temporarily) one of your bucket seats, have the crapper in its place. Tell them your passenger has IBD / Crohns problems.
Ours was a little tiny o-ring, easy-peezy.
“How about a toilet that will flush?”
Now after some years have passed, there are many that do a very nice job with 1.6 gallons.
Our plumber son in law likes Toto, not the crazy money $$$ ones.
We have a Toto “Drake” that was well under $200.
No problems in years.
He says there are many others, but this was his pick.
I bought a replacement nozzle on amazon and threw away the one that came with mine.
“How about a toilet that will flush?”
I built my house in 1994 and installed three American Standard toilets equipped with the Sloan Flushmate pressure assisted systems. Back then they were around $300, which was expensive relative to the typical $99 specials at Lowes and Home Depot. But as they say you get what you pay for.
I replaced two flush cartridges, approximately $20 each, over the years. Just before Thanksgiving, I replaced all three flush units, cost $125 each from Zoro. My well water contains iron which took its toll on the original units for which parts were no longer available, hence the upgrades.
The Flushmate system contains a pressure vessel in the tank, no water is visible in the tank, and the pressure of the flush is equal to the water pressure in the house.
I highly recommend this system. You will have to do your own research to determine if your toilet can be converted to use the Flushmate. Installation takes maybe an hour from my experience.
These same ‘experts’ have been telling us for a yer to ‘wash our hand for at least 3 minutes at a time’ due to Covid, and to do it multiple times a day.
I have used my dish washer for almost 16 years & it has NO STINK at all.
Never heard of such.
Are you sure you don’t have debris trapped on the screen???
Try running it empty for one cycle.
Never heard of such.
stinks = performs badly, not literally malodorous. I had other terms for it not suitable for mixed company.
It's good at getting dishes wet, or rinsing ones I've already done the hard scrubbing on, but between the low water, low power and change in detergents it doesn't have the oomph to clean dishes. (And I've cheated by adding a little real TSP to the detergent.) I've heard other people complain about ones in the last decade who say "repair the older ones until they fall apart". It's like toilets: when you cut the water usage you cut down on its ability to do the job.
I’ve always been able to get them out with a pair of needle nose pliers. A dry wall screw works, too...that was actually a suggestion included as a note from the seller with a shower head I ordered online!
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