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To think you should put the plug in when you bath?

32 replies

Stopsnowing · 09/12/2022 18:47

i have a lodger who seems to have a
bath with the plug out but the water running constantly like a kind of shower but in the bath.

this goes on for ages.

it seems like a massive waste of water and energy to me but maybe i
should just see it like some kind of shower.

yabu - it is just like a shower
yanbu - it wastes a lot more water than either a shower or a bath.

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Bonjovispyjamas · 09/12/2022 18:49

That's just weird 😮

xogossipgirlxo · 09/12/2022 18:49

Do you mean he takes 30min-1hr bath and water is running? Or just takes 10 minutes shower but standing/sitting in the tub?

MatildaTheCat · 09/12/2022 18:50

Eh? I might top the water up if I’m having a soak but that’s absurd. Just tell them to stop. Or charge per bath.

Onefootinthegroove · 09/12/2022 18:51

No, absolutely not. That's fucking absurd.

Aquamarine1029 · 09/12/2022 18:51

That sounds absurd and massively wasteful, nevermind expensive. How long is "ages?"

SBAM · 09/12/2022 18:52

How does it even fill up enough to get comfortable?

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 09/12/2022 18:52

Yeah, I need the water running while I’m in the bath.

I can’t explain why.

I do put the plug in, though. Then get in when it’s about an inch deep and then wash as it fills up.

Now I’ve written it down I’m clearly insane…

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 09/12/2022 18:53

That sounds hugely wasteful.

Presumably he’s using the bath taps and not the shower?

Even topping up a bath is a bit much if you’re not the one paying for it, tbh

Aquamarine1029 · 09/12/2022 18:54

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 09/12/2022 18:52

Yeah, I need the water running while I’m in the bath.

I can’t explain why.

I do put the plug in, though. Then get in when it’s about an inch deep and then wash as it fills up.

Now I’ve written it down I’m clearly insane…

I don't think your way is crazy at all. That's what I used to do.

StrikeandRobin · 09/12/2022 18:54

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 09/12/2022 18:52

Yeah, I need the water running while I’m in the bath.

I can’t explain why.

I do put the plug in, though. Then get in when it’s about an inch deep and then wash as it fills up.

Now I’ve written it down I’m clearly insane…

No, I do the same. That way I’m fully washed by the time it fills up so I can then enjoy a soak with my book.

MrNook · 09/12/2022 18:56

So he fills the bath up (presumably with the plug in?) then takes the plug out but leaves the taps on the whole time?

Or he sits in the bath with the overhead shower on?

JusteanBiscuits · 09/12/2022 18:56

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 09/12/2022 18:52

Yeah, I need the water running while I’m in the bath.

I can’t explain why.

I do put the plug in, though. Then get in when it’s about an inch deep and then wash as it fills up.

Now I’ve written it down I’m clearly insane…

I'm same as you! Let the water fill up round me :)

MammaWeasel · 09/12/2022 18:56

Are they of a different culture to you? Some religions are not supposed to "bathe" in still water, I think....?

ElizabethCaroline18 · 09/12/2022 19:10

Who are these crazy people that get in the bath and let it fill up around them?! Aren't you sat there naked and cold until it gets at least half full? I set the bath running go and do a little job around the house then come back when it's ready. Then I like to just soak for about half an hour then I do all my washing at the end.

jicora · 09/12/2022 19:13

Do you have a slow draining bath? That wouldn't work here. It would have emptied in a couple of minutes and you'd be left with an empty bath and jets of water from the taps.

Herejustforthisone · 09/12/2022 19:18

I would kick them out over that criminal waste of water and weird AF habit.

DealOrNoelsDeal · 09/12/2022 19:20

I lived with a girl at uni who was Chinese and she did this, can’t remember if it was just her or if it was cultural though?

newnamequickly · 09/12/2022 19:21

Turn the temperature right down on the hot water so it's not costing the earth to heat it.

Have a bath or shower whilst there is hot water in the tank and let them have the other half of the tank. If they shower for 10 mins it will be warm enough. If they do the bath with plug out thing it will run cold after 10 mins.

ColdHandsHotHead · 09/12/2022 19:27

Can you get a shower installed over the bath, OP? That might solve it. Unless your lodger is just weird.

tillyandmilly · 09/12/2022 19:32

I don't have a shower at home. I just stand in the bath and wash myself with running water and on the weekends have a proper soak with a bath

Threadkillacilla · 09/12/2022 19:32

Are they hhaving bucket baths?

Kanaloa · 09/12/2022 19:34

Surely it’s really hard to wash? I’d wonder how it’s actually working out. Is there a shower they could use.

Lcb123 · 09/12/2022 19:35

That’s very weird. I’d only run the water to top up with hot water if necessary

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Stopsnowing · 09/12/2022 19:40

There is a very good rainfall shower over the bath.
I hear a lot of sluicing which I never understood.
today I heard the bath taps running for far longer than it would take to fill and was worried she had left the bath running and it would overflow so I went up and heard her splashing about in the bath with the taps running. Ok. So I thought she was just in while it was filling up. (Although it had been running for ages). But when I went downstairs I realised that the bath was emptying while she was in it. And this carried on for ages.
she seems to have two showers a day generally and my energy bills are very high.

I guess I need to say she can have one bath or shower a day and the plug needs to be in and the shower needs to take 10 mins.

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Stopsnowing · 09/12/2022 19:42

oh and she is from south east Asia so I do t know if it is a cultural thing

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