Originally Posted by composer
Definitely can empathize! (see below)
That's what it seems like, logically. I know that I got here to my mother's home in Michigan (reluctantly leaving the SW where it's warm after my hubby died), only to find that she'd let my dad "play" (that's what I call it!) with the pipes. Got the idea in their head that water needed to be conserved. Rather than buying a conserving showerhead, he tore out the old pipes, put in new skinny ones with, I'm sure, excess pipe gunk inside them, since there was excess gunk found hanging on the OUTside of them(!). Water used to gush into the tub, & a shower was good; now's agonizingly slow ... I do mean, agonizing. I've cried in there.
Hardly able to (1) keep warm w/out enough water flowing over oneself in cold weather---not such a warm bathroom, (2) wash the soap out of one's hair when cleaning it, (3) feel as tho' one were clean, and (4) UNable to have the water massage a crushed back had relied on, after hubby died, & he couldn't do it, I've been in sheer anguish trying to feel like a decent, clean human being who's never had such a horrid bathroom situation before. I bo't shower head after shower head after shower head, until nearly losing track (think this last one was 6th or 7th?), while only on Social Security, because I was trying to find SOMETHING that wouldn't make me literally avoid the agony of a shower, tho' I'm a clean person at heart!!
Took the gizmo that's supposed to restrict flow, since his danged pipes already did that ... measured with a STOP WATCH, I learned one could barely get a gallon out of it in a minute!! Now, that's agony. This latest one was an expensive one ... had seen it advertised with not only a pulsating outer flow, but an inside flow that actually rotated (well, that is, if there's enough water flow to even push it to *DO* that, I learned!!) Anyway, what it was supposed to do while rotating is make a circle about a couple of feet in diameter ... which would be good coverage, and feel good, too. Tho't if I could even get it moving a wee bit, I might actually feel the water hit me, rather than have it merely TRICKLING over me (with me nearly crying, wanting to PULL the water out of the pipes to be able to FEEL it!!).
What a joke it turned out to be ... it might, if it gets to turning at all, make a wee little 3"-diameter stream, rather than just dripping out of the head. But that compared to the video seen of a two-foot circle!?!? This place is just sickening ... MY BACK (on disability after working many years following its being crushed) NEEDS that shower to massage it; I cannot AFFORD a masseuse on Social Security!! I'm sad. Once a week I can take a shower at a friend's house, so I don't have to undergo this misery without some reprieve now & then. But, oh, when it's winter ... that's even hard getting out to go there, & then coming home not totally dry! One needs to be able to bathe adequately where they LIVE!
Thanks for listening. But, as said, taking every restrictor out isn't going to PUSH water out faster than the weak pressure will allow it to drizzle out, unfortunately.