Ways to make bath water go further during the hosepipe ban

[Sillyme1]

I always have a bath in the morning and am using my bath water to water plants, since there is a hose pipe ban. Any other ideas. Btw this is not a thread to have a go at me for using up water having a bath, but for ideas on making water go further

My husband used to have very short showers. Get into shower, wet yourself all over. Turn iff shower, wash. Turn on shower and rinse. I believe this is how you are supposed to do it, not stand for hours under running water.

I take a hot bath. Nothing else warms me up. I use very hot water as I need much less of it than warm water covering me.

I guess you could use bath water for the first round of wash in a top loading washing machine but I don’t see many of those on sale in the UK.

Piping bath water into water butts is an incredibly good idea!

You need warming up during this weather?

I put a bucket under the shower while it warms up, then use it to flush the loo.

I've got a lot of patio pots atm, and we have been standing in a large garden trug to shower and then bucketing the water down to the garden.
It is a pain but it makes me feel much less guilty about watering all my pots.

When we redid the ensuite a couple of years ago I did talk about whether we could plumb it to divert to the waterbutts bit we didn't.
Would be very hard to do anyhring retrospectively as it is under the floor and feeds into an internal foul water soil pipe.

If I had external pipes I'd definitely be looking into a diverted - I saw one advertised on facebook recently.

Blimey!

Even in Australia we were advised four minutes.

I don't wash my shortish hair every day but I definitely couldn't do it in two minutes when I do wash it.

Anyway, we have a downstairs bathroom at the back of the house and we've been saving the bath water (which we share) for the garden. It does get messy though and I am now heartily sick of cleaning the bath and bathroom floor!

P.S. Don't use bath or washing up water on anything you're planning to eat, e.g. tomatoes.

You're supposed to turn off the water when you're not actively using it to get wet or rinse off. That's how you save water. Running it continually through the entire process is incredibly wasteful.

People who have grown up in drought prone areas/homes reliant on well water who have moved to the UK lol.

I'm also wondering this! I once timed how quickly i could shower and to wash and condition thick shoulder length hair took me just over 4minutes. So i can 2 mins if i'm just having a quick freshen up sort of shower but definitely not wash my hair too.

no one is measuring it, it's basic maths based on the size of an average bath and the volume of water it holds 🙄

Only if you leave the water running in the shower whilst you do all of those things.

Water the trees on your road? I do this with my bath water regularly. Mine is sometimes purple (from my shampoo!) and my husband things I’m mad, but I dont care!

It is VERY easy to have a 2 minute shower. Turn it on to get wet, turn off to lather up, turn back on to wash off. 4 minutes when washing hair. It’s doesn’t need to run continuously.

Having a bath every day when we’ve had no water in many parts of the country for more than a month is unreal.

anyone still letting a tap run while they clean their teeth should be ashamed as well.

unless you are my teen... who took insanely long showers.

a shallow bath doesn't take more water than a reasonable shower.

I think i could take this advice from anyone other than Thames Water!

I can have the quickest shower ever as we shower on our motorhome so there is wet hair, turn off to lather, turn on to rinse, turn off, wash all over then turn on to rinse. The tank and heater has a capacity of litres. If your on a wild camping site with zero facilities it’s what you do, we can be like this for 3 days.

We shared bath water as kids and we were allowed a bath once a week on a Sunday night. It was typical of poor families back in the 1970’s otherwise it was a lick and a promise as my Mother said, a strip down wash at the sink.

Other than the garden, you can use it for pouring down toilet. I guess it could be used for cleaning the car if that can't wait.

OP may not have a shower, but if we're thinking about saving water as well, I guess they could use slightly less in the bath. When we had the 2007 floods and water was in very short supply, we were lucky to get low pressure water for about an hour from a release value being activated - we managed to get about of a bucket each of it off it - I didn't use much shampoo but managed to rinse my hair with it, saving a jugfull for essential parts.

It was a very useful visit though (although I understand the sentiment about Thames Water!)

One of the things they gave us was a timer (essentially an egg timer) that you stuck on the wall of the shower, and it ran for 2 minutes - which proved that you can, indeed, have a 2 minute shower.

I would have the bath and water the flowers with the hose! There is a water shortage because of bad management by water companies... Linda having a 2 min shower rather than 3 and Peggy washing the car with baby wipes will not make a difference to the millions of gallons being leaked by dodgy infrastructure and lack of investment. The rich get richer and we are sharing bathwater? Really?

Not a drop in the shit filled ocean.

I turn off the shower to scrub myself down, shampoo my hair etc, then turn it on again to rinse off.

Use it to water flowers and flushing the toilet.

But on a side note, this is why I oppose the hosepipe ban. OP has a bath every morning, using 80+ litres of water (which she, of course, is absolutely allowed to do), but I can’t put up a paddling pool today for my toddler that would use 10 litres of water and is a once-per-week thing, because carrying this water up and down the stairs while watching toddler is not possible, I could only fill it with the hosepipe. Just doesn’t make sense.

Having a bath every day when we’ve had no water in many parts of the country for more than a month is unreal

Its all my HA will provide And as i live in a fucking sauna partly because of modifications the fuckers have made then thems the breaks. Im averaging about 3 baths a day because of this shithole but i do get in and out of the same bath water but will freshen it up to wash my hair If you think its so fucking unreal contact the housing associations who ARE on Twitter and tell THEM and stop punching down. Im not going to bed a sweaty mess just because of where and how i have to live Ive not added to the problem by having kids which is one of the fucking reasons im having to live here.

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Yes, the temperature drops quite a lot here in the UK in the evenings, I can never sit outside, need a cardi at 9 pm.

Thanks for the childish eye roll.

The point is, because a bath might be able to hold X litres, doesn't mean that everyone who prefers to wash in a bath rather than a shower fills the bath to it's full capacity. As was pretty clear in the post if you read it.

Well have a shower over the bath with the plug in and see which uses more water then!