{"id":959,"date":"2014-01-27T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:56:34","slug":"shower-ladybug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/shower-ladybug\/","title":{"rendered":"Shower Ladybug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our bathroom shower is just about as far from the water heater as it could be. When taking a shower, we turn on the hot water and then go do something else while we wait 1-2 minutes for the hot water to make it through the pipes. But it’s hard to guess when the water is getting hot unless we frequently open the door and feel it. If we wait too long, we waste hot water.<\/p>\n

I recently installed a Ladybug Shower Head Adapter<\/a> from Evolve.<\/p>\n

\"Ladybug\"<\/p>\n

With this clever gadget in place, we turn on the hot water and then go do something else (brush teeth, get undressed, etc.). When the water gets hot the Ladybug shuts the flow down to a small trickle, just enough to keep the water hot but minimizing the waste. We can easily hear the change in flow and when we are ready we open the door, pull the tab hanging from the shower head, and immediately the water returns to full flow. If we can’t come right away, only a little hot water gets wasted.<\/p>\n

At $25 it will probably take a long time to save enough hot water to pay back, but I like the convenience, energy savings and that we ensure enough water is left for the next person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our bathroom shower is just about as far from the water heater as it could be. When taking a shower, we turn on the hot water and then go do something else while we wait 1-2 minutes for the hot water to make it through the pipes. But it’s hard to guess when the water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}