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Sometimes, when you wake up, you just want hot water, but it takes a while.
My idea ocupies your mind while you wait, it consists of a large red button and a temperature sensor, which hooks up to your sink.
You press it, and in a faint, impending voice, anounces the estimated time until
hot water arives, with screams of "Oh my god, we're all gonna die!!!" and "Save yourselves" in the backround, while the anouncer counts down "Hot water in 10, 9, 8, etc"
If it takes longer than expected for the hot water to arive it would simply create a new countdown, like; "Hot water in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... hot water process initiated, hot water in 5, 4, etc"
Cheap Instant Hot Water
http://www.grundfos...CD5C1256C3D003D8118
Not as entertaining, but solves the problem. [oxen crossing, Oct 21 2004]
Simliar idea
http://www.halfbake...aucet_20Thermometer
Faucet thermometer [thelambs, Oct 21 2004]
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We also need a Shower Cold Water Countdown. "The hot water reserve will be depleted in 10, 9, 8, ..." |
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Awesome. Who knew washing dishes could be so epic? |
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My hot water takes forever to arrive. Countdown would have to start at 100. |
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I assume that you came up with this idea because it was kind of boring to wait until hot water comes. Why not to turn the radio on automatically for these few seconds?.. |
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I hate waiting like a fool for a flickering fluorescent light to turn on, as it gasps like an old lawnmower coming to life. |
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Surely a small device hooked up to your alarm clock, which starts the hot water tap running? |
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By the time you get into the bathroom its already coming out nice and hot .. why wait at all? |
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I'm just wondering why thelambs bathes in the kitchen sink. No washbasin in your bathroom? |
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It would be useful to have a thermometer on the tap, but I imagine that's been done. |
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Medical adage: wash only what you can feel. |
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One idea is to have recirculating hot water (these are baked). As soon as the tap is opened, hot water is available. The pipes need good insulation. Only for the rich. |
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[Ling], not only for the rich. For about $250 US, you can
get a pump and remote temp sensing valve, requires no
new piping (pumps it into the cold water piping). Good
idea to insulate your pipes. Comes with a timer. Really
only adds a small amount of extra energy use, as you are
essentially just adding to the tank capacity of your hot
water heater by the volume of the hot water pipe,
probably only a few gallons. And you save about 10,000
gallons of cold water/year otherwise dumped down the
drain. |
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Umm... Never said I bathed in the sink, just sometimes you want hot water from the sink for one reason or another. |
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I did find a similar idea (see link) however, the whole point of the "Kitchen Sink Countdown" is the huge red button and the faint screams of terror, which would work equally well on a shower, sink, or toliet flush handle. |
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The temperature sensor just adds purpose. |
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The speaker emitting screams of terror should be located within/below the toilet, keyed to a lifting of the lid. Marbled underwater screams of terror . . . beautiful. + |
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As a side thought, shutting the lid and flushing the toilet would emit extra screams. |
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