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United States24803 Posts
The problem:
+ Show Spoiler +Have you ever taken a shower where you felt really cold after you finished? Depending on your region, how your household sets the thermostat, etc, you might experience this all the time like I do. I've spent years coming up with strategies to prevent this.
An early strategy I devised was to keep the shower door closed, and dry off from inside the shower. This helps a little, as I once read in a conceptual physics textbook. However, if you have a cold house and/or a big bathroom, it probably is sufficient in making you feel like crap (cold crap at that) after a shower (amplified if you have a decent amount of hair I suppose).
Once or twice I tried cranking up the temperature on the water to maximum and leaving it on just as I exited the shower. This produced additional steam to help keep the bathroom warm, but proved to be less useful than my current strategy.
The setup:
+ Show Spoiler +The bigger the bathroom, the better this will work (but also the more necessary it is). You need a power outlet with one of those reset buttons because you are going to be plugging something into a wall outlet in a steamy room, and something could possibly go wrong.
The solution:
+ Show Spoiler +Plug an electric space heater into the outlet, and place the space heater on the floor, facing away from anything flammable (if the floor is carpeted you shouldn't do it, but I doubt anyone has a carpeted bathroom). Turn it on before you shower. Depending on the brevity of the shower and the size of the bathroom, you might want to turn it on well before you enter the bathroom to begin with.
If leaving a space heater in the bathroom is a bad idea, then just bring it in with you, and back out when you are done (that's what I do).
You'll never have a freezing cold 5 minutes while you dry off again!
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
Just step out of the shower and dry yourself with a towel.
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So you don't have regular heating in your bath room? ._.
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United States24803 Posts
On November 11 2008 21:42 Spenguin wrote:
Just step out of the shower and dry yourself with a towel.
Yes I do that. The only problem is, when the bathroom is cool to begin with, you feel much colder when you are wet.
On November 11 2008 21:46 Schnake wrote:
So you don't have regular heating in your bath room? ._.
Luckily my bathroom does have heating. However, depending on time/season, the bathroom could be in the lower 60s F. This makes you feel cold when you get out of the shower. Your face has inspired me to make a pellucidity face ;_;
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When you get out dry your legs and arms first because they have the greatest surface area to volume ratio. Problem solved. Everytime you use that heater you are killing the environment (not to mention your power bill)
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United States24803 Posts
On November 11 2008 21:51 Ludrik wrote:
When you get out dry your legs and arms first because they have the greatest surface area to volume ratio. Problem solved.
Oh this is a nice suggestion. I'm going to try it.
Everytime you use that heater you are killing the environment (not to mention your power bill) Er what? How are you killing the environment? I mean, using electricity does in turn spell bad news for the environment, but I think the amount of energy used with this is much less than many other places where you haven't pointed this out (any discussion about central air conditioning lol). Besides, if the house was warmer (more expensive and worse for environment) then the bathroom wouldn't require the additional heat.
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United States24803 Posts
On November 11 2008 21:53 HeavOnEarth wrote:
or you could just not take a shower in the morning
EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
I never do lol.
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On November 11 2008 21:54 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2008 21:53 HeavOnEarth wrote:
or you could just not take a shower in the morning
EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? I never do lol.
damnit i was quoted
here in texas its really cold in the morning but usually in the afternoon its blistering hot so i forgot to take that into consideration xD
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I used to do the drying off in the shower one and I also tried turning it blindingly hot just before I get out. This heater idea sounds best though.
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i do the space heater to bathroom as well
my name is ghin and i approve this message
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I used to have that problem as well (used to study in Canada lol, winter is painful)
yeah, it's simple, just keep a dry towel within hand-reach so that you don't have to leave the shower to get the towel. Before you finish, heat up the water 10-15% and soak up urself in hot water for 30 secs. Turn off water and immediately use the dry towel at hand to dry yourself up real quick. The order to dry up is head, chest, back, arms, wrist, leg and feet.
PS: don't forget to dry up the place under your arms
Problem solved.
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1. portable fan heater is for your BEDROOM , waaay too much effort to unplug it and bring it to the bathroom then have to go and get it again later, plus u cant use it in ur bedroom until u'v dried urself off abit due to danger
2. i have gas central heating , radiators on in bedroom and bathroom only. make sure bathroom door is always closed. edit: o and pay ur fuckin bill
3. depends on your timing......if you really want u can go straight back to ur bedroom and cover urself up with ur duvet while u browse TL, it'll dry by tonight or if it doesn't who cares, a job took priority
4. 20 quick press-ups..... this will solve any heat problems u have straight away!!!
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United States24803 Posts
On November 11 2008 22:17 tika wrote:
1. portable fan heater is for your BEDROOM , waaay too much effort to unplug it and bring it to the bathroom then have to go and get it again later, plus u cant use it in ur bedroom until u'v dried urself off abit due to danger Effort? It takes like 5 seconds to unplug it and carry it into the bathroom for me.... and another 5 seconds to go back. Honestly not a big deal. Also, I dry myself off like 90%+ before I leave the bathroom
2. i have gas central heating , radiators on in bedroom and bathroom only. make sure bathroom door is always closed.
3. depends on your timing......if you really want u can go straight back to ur bedroom and cover urself up with ur duvet while u browse TL, it'll dry by tonight or if it doesn't who cares, a job took priority
4. 20 quick press-ups..... this will solve any heat problems u have straight away!!!
I always leave the door closed 100% regardless XD.
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Sydney2287 Posts
Hmm. Let's see here...
No central heating, in fact no heaters in that entire area of the house. We have one of those water saver showerheads which slows the water down and reduces pressure hardcore; you can only cover 1/3 of your body max with water at a time. You learn this weird swaying motion so that the water is constantly moving around your body, just as a spot is about to get cold (relative to the water temp) it gets hit by water again. Anyway, I digress.
The solution
Ridiculously hot showers, close the door and window to the bathroom, let the entire bathroom steam up as you shower. Once you turn off the shower you have 1 minute~ to dry yourself before it starts getting cold (The steam stops being warm at this point). If the morning is really fucking cold (midwinter) then bring clothes with you into the bathroom to get changed into instantly, otherwise make a run for your room with your clothes already laid out and pull them on asap.
EDIT: These are morning showers. On days where we know the next morning it's gonna be close to 0 (celsius, and only in midwinter really) then we'll leave a portable heater on overnight.
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I do this sometimes.
Pretty much just in the winter.
There's really no temperature change at all. You're hot in the shower, and then you get out, and you're still toasty.
It owwwwwwwwns
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you know what i do? i shower while increasing temperature. then when its a bit to hot i go down to about 35 degrees celsius. then my body will increase its own temperature. then when im warm under the 35 degrees shower i dry myself.
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It is almsot 6:00 a.m where I am right now, my house is somewhere near 59-63 degrees I would imagine with it being a little colder outside.... I wanted to take a nice warm shower, but didn't want to get cold after.
I actually was thinking .... I could take a normal shower then when I was almost done take 3-4 minutes and plug up the tub, and fill it with 6-8 inches of hot water, then sit down turn off the shower and my head/chest and arms while keeping my legs warm then going straight from sitting to drying my masercrotch/pelvicarea/chode/leftball and right/pubic hair and behind my knees.
I live in california I don't own a portable heater, but I do have coco.
Fuck, I just talked myself into Coco ,a bath and my new book "Life after genius"
sob.
GG Shower < warmbath
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Shouldnt this be in the strategy forums?
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