TGF Rated Review: efergy shower timer
January 13, 2010 by erica
Filed under Green Living, Reviews
What is it? The Efergy Showertime water saving monitor and timer is designed to allow you to understand how much water you use, every time you have a shower. You can use it to help you reduce your water usage and your water bills (if you have a water meter).
Who is testing it? Me and my family.
Set Up The monitor has large easy to press rubberized buttons. It can be used in the shower either by using the sucker on the back to fix it to the wall, or by using the lanyard to hang it over a hook or something similar.
You can either use the shower timer to monitor your actual water usage or the time spent in the shower. Before you can measure your water usage, you need to calibrate the shower time based on the water flow of your shower. You do this by timing how long it takes to fill the plastic bag that comes with the device.
In Use We used the shower timer to monitor our individual shower water usages. It was no surprise to me that my husband used the most water, as he seems to use the shower as a means of waking up and it takes quite a while to work. It did provide a focus for reduction and we used the timer to help us gradually reduce our water consumption over a few weeks. You can also use it to measure the water usage of other items e.g. pressure washer, kitchen tap, etc.
Any Negatives I had some problems getting the calibration to work, which I think was due to a step being missed out of the instructions. However, I contacted ecoutlet, the suppliers, for advice and they were very prompt to answer and their response was very helpful.
Price and Availability It’s available from ecoutlet for £7.99.
Overall The shower timer is a good way of knowing exactly how much water you are using, rather than just guessing from average figures. If you like to have a more scientific approach to reducing your impact on the environment or just reducing your water bill, then this is the device for you. If you just want to reduce your water usage, you could achieve that by timing your shower and using an alarm to prompt you when to get out. However, the shower timer is convenient and safe to use in the shower.
Rating 3/5
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Hi Erica, we were talking about ‘long showers’ yesterday, I think we may need to get one of these ‘shower times’!
I always have fairly speedy showers, but ‘im indoors likes to stay in there, with the water on super hot, for AGES. He was telling me that when he was on the kibbutz (several years ago, and before my time) a long hot shower would be his evening reward after a day’s farm work.
We were laughing about the man who lives in the house which backs onto our garden, oh boy, does HE like a long shower, with no shame, his naked b***-cheeks up against his non-frosted bathroom window; my kids think it’s hilarious (and hopefully he’s not reading this!) perhaps I should drop a note through his door? What do you think? Could cover neighbourly decency, and energy saving in one swoop!
Love your blog btw
Ali
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Hi Ali
Glad you like the blog – it’s great to hear from people who read it. Like the story about your neighbour – sounds like he could do with one of these.
Cheers
Erica