how can I get fully clean without hot water?

[Phunkychicken]

Waiting for boiler repair again but had a v menopausal night and need a full wash.

All I can think is to boil a couple of kettles, floof soap into a floofer stand in shower rub all over and then rinse off using jugs of water. Is there anyway else? I really don't want to have to get DH but I'll have to if it's the jugs due to limited mobility.

I was v sweaty so a flannel wash won't cut it, and I'm not hard enough for a fully cold shower!

Did it! Turns out I only needed one big jug, seemed like it would take loads more in my head.

Thank you

Does no one know how to wash with flannels anymore?

Edited to add that I hope you're boiler is sorted soon, miserable being without in winter!

I do normally but was too stinky for that! I shower/hair wash every other day then strop wash in between but combo of meds am on and menopause meant flannel wouldn't be enough!

BG here and making all the wrong sort of noises about the boiler, can't afford to replace it😥

Just do what we did in the olden days when we only had a bath once a week (because the immersion heater was too expensive to put on) boil a kettle and have a flannel wash. I think we were clean from doing this.

Victorian wash. Put kettle water in sink or bowl use flannel and soap, then use clean water and flannel to wash off soap.

At home - do it in 3 stages.

1. wash your hair in the sink with warm kettle water
2. at sink, wash armpits & groin with warm kettle water then get your whole self soapy all all over.
3. dive into shower under cold jet for 10 seconds just to rinse off the suds

BUT that's quite a faff so I would be going swimming and using the council's warm showers

We did this in the 70's.

fill a bucket or washing up bowl with water from the kettle.

place bucket/bowl in shower or bathtub and top up with cold water until a pleasant temperature.

with a jug wet your hair, shampoo your & lather your body with a flannel.

rinse with a jug.

(that's how we did it in a holiday cabin in the swedish woods)

I hope it's repairable but if you can't afford to replace the boiler outright there are govt schemes available that you might qualify for:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-supply/save-energy-at-home/getting-your-broken-boiler-repaired-or-replaced/#:~:text=Apply%20to%20the%20Energy%20Company,apply%20to%20the%20ECO%20scheme.

Alternatively, would a 0% credit card and pay off over time be a possibility?

No,no no,nooooo🙈

Start with the cold water and work up to non-iceberg temperatures by very slowly adding hot water.

What kinda of posh torture holiday cabins did you hang out in😁

🤞 @Phunkychicken

What kinda of posh torture holiday cabins did you hang out in😁

memorable
it rained all the time, we managed to sink a rowing boat on the pond lake and all came home with a stinking cold and were sucked dry by midges.

Hope you get your boiler fixed - but if not I would suggest the very shallow bath using kettles. My bathroom is downstairs but you could take your kettle up to near your bathroom so not carrying boiling water on the stairs. Separate hair wash in sink.

When our boiler broke I purchased an electric camping shower off Amazon. Put it in an enormous bucket of water (three full kettles of boiled water two of cold water, and managed several showers that way. We've since used the shower for washing the dog, so hasn't been money wasted for us! I think I paid 20£ for it.

@bloodredfeaturewall I think more people go on those kinds of holidays so they can come home and fall on their knees as they walk in the door, thankful for their many blessings and appreciating their wonderful heat, carpeting and double glazing. If you go on too nice a holiday you don't feel the benefit once you get home, it just makes you resentful! All holidays should have ice cold strip-washing as a minimum requirement.

🫢😁😁🤣