 MavenPremium
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Canada | Taking cold shower to avoid humidity? If I want to take a late night shower without bothering everyone, would taking a cold one do the trick?
I ask because the exhaust fan is pretty loud, but I figured it wouldn't be necessary with cold or lukewarm water. |
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 JuggernautIrreverent or irrelevant?Premium
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kudos:2 | Take a cool shower, or run your wrists under cold water to cool down. In the dark, if necessary. Who gives a damn about noise?
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tcopePremium
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Huh? Seems like running the fan is your issue. Why can't you take a normal shower at night without the fan? |
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guppy_fishPremium
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running and splashing water is just as noisy as a fan is ... |
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Taking a cold shower to avoid humidity? Only when your in it, once out, there is no escaping it.
Not sure how the exhaust fans plays in to this? Are you talking about the humidity from the running hot water? If so, cold water will also make the shower room humid, just not as much as hat water would.
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 KilroyPremium,MVM
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Ann Arbor, MI | reply to Maven
You could always leave the door open. |
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Generally, to keep cool in Formula1, race car drivers (pilots) will keep a cool, wet towels behind their necks. |
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Bloom County | reply to chrisretusn
said by chrisretusn:Taking a cold shower to avoid humidity? Only when your in it, once out, there is no escaping it.
Not sure how the exhaust fans plays in to this? Are you talking about the humidity from the running hot water? If so, cold water will also make the shower room humid, just not as much as hat water would.
I believe it is to avoid filling the bathroom with humidity via hot water.
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The cooler the shower, the less humidity you'll generate. But unless you take a very cold shower, there will be substantial moisture in the air.
Is replacing the vent fan an option? Newer, properly operating fans are very quiet; probably quieter than the sound of the water running and hitting the shower walls. |
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buy a new fan... or shower at the gym --
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If humidity is the problem, then finding a non moisture based solution is likely the better choice. Water is water and making yourself wet is not going to do much in the way of reducing your exposure to humidity.
An interior dehumidifier sucks all the excess moisture from the air and is amazing at how effective it can make local air more comfortable.
If all you are concerned about is pumping a lot of moisture into the air in the bathroom though, I don't think it really matters too great a deal you choice cold water over warm. Opening the window is usually much more efficient at flushing out the humid air of a warm water shower.
Remember, humidity is usually only a result of bad air circulation. It's rarely humid on windy days for a reason. So the best way to reduce interior humidity is increase air movement in the building. |
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join:2012-03-25 | said by Sukunai:If humidity is the problem, then finding a non moisture based solution is likely the better choice. Water is water and making yourself wet is not going to do much in the way of reducing your exposure to humidity.
An interior dehumidifier sucks all the excess moisture from the air and is amazing at how effective it can make local air more comfortable.
If all you are concerned about is pumping a lot of moisture into the air in the bathroom though, I don't think it really matters too great a deal you choice cold water over warm. Opening the window is usually much more efficient at flushing out the humid air of a warm water shower.
Remember, humidity is usually only a result of bad air circulation. It's rarely humid on windy days for a reason. So the best way to reduce interior humidity is increase air movement in the building.
An interior dehumidifier sucks all the excess moisture from the air and is amazing at how effective it can make local air more HOT too. a cold bath for an hour will cool you down for many hours!. |
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said by Sukunai:Remember, humidity is usually only a result of bad air circulation. It's rarely humid on windy days for a reason. So the best way to reduce interior humidity is increase air movement in the building.
I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't think the 3 above statements are accurate. How much windflow is in your bathroom?
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 The PigI know you want to be mePremium
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Regular shower, but leave the door open to exhaust the steam! |
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said by CylonRed:I believe it is to avoid filling the bathroom with humidity via hot water. Yes, that is what I was attempting to determine. Guess I could have worded it better. Thanks.
Regardless of the water temperature there will be an increase of humidify in the shower room. Less with cold but still and increase. It also depends on the ambient air temperature. I take cold showers all the time, we do not have running hot water.
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Greenwich, CT | reply to Sukunai
said by Sukunai:If humidity is the problem, then finding a non moisture based solution is likely the better choice. Water is water and making yourself wet is not going to do much in the way of reducing your exposure to humidity.
An interior dehumidifier sucks all the excess moisture from the air and is amazing at how effective it can make local air more comfortable.
If all you are concerned about is pumping a lot of moisture into the air in the bathroom though, I don't think it really matters too great a deal you choice cold water over warm. Opening the window is usually much more efficient at flushing out the humid air of a warm water shower.
Remember, humidity is usually only a result of bad air circulation. It's rarely humid on windy days for a reason. So the best way to reduce interior humidity is increase air movement in the building.
Yep a dehumidifier can make the room temp feel like 15-20 degrees cooler.. However make sure you don't run it so long that it heats up the air.
I run mine on days that I don't feel like running the AC (yes I know the dehumidifier is the reverse of a AC unit)
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said by tcope:Huh? Seems like running the fan is your issue. Why can't you take a normal shower at night without the fan?
I lived in an apartment complex where the exhaust fans in the bathrooms sounded like my old, beat-up gasoline lawnmower. Not only would my neighbor's (common wall) fan wake me up out of a dead sleep, the fans of the two nearest neighbors on the floor above me also were loud enough to wake me.
By unspoken agreement, we didn't use the fans (well, almost never) from about midnight to 7 am. |
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I don't even have such a fan. |
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