Showering with 10 gallon water heater
We are buying a fifth wheel to full time in. My GF just asked me to time her shower at our house to see how long it took her. 8 minutes. She's concerned she wont get a fully hot shower in the RV for a...
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I seriously doubt that the water flow rate is all that high with the shower, especially considering the lower pressure and smaller diameter pipes typically found in most RVs. I would guess that the shower output is less than 1/2 gallon per minute, and probably less than 50% of that mix is hot water.
The only way to know for sure is to grab a 1-gallon or even a 5-gallon bucket and then time how long it takes to fill it.
I did this recently at home as an experiment using my garden hose after I became skeptical regarding California's Water Conservation propaganda (e.g., "... a faucet that drips just one drip per minute wastes over 100 gallons per day." Wrong... it's more like 34 gallons per YEAR. Or, "... washing your car at home uses over 175 gallons, whereas washing it at a commercial carwash will use only 45 gallons due to recycling." Well, with the faucet full-on it took 1 minute and 43 seconds to fill a 5-gallon bucket using a 50-foot 5/8" diameter hose at 70 psi water pressure through 1/2" copper pipe plumbing.)
At approximately 3 gallons per minute, I would have needed to run the water continuously at full blast for nearly an hour to use the 175 gallons they claimed. Instead, I sprayed the car for about 30 seconds, used about a gallon of soapy water to wash with, then rinsed it off for a minute or so... less than 5 gallons. Granted, it's a small car, but still....
The only way to know for sure is to grab a 1-gallon or even a 5-gallon bucket and then time how long it takes to fill it.
I did this recently at home as an experiment using my garden hose after I became skeptical regarding California's Water Conservation propaganda (e.g., "... a faucet that drips just one drip per minute wastes over 100 gallons per day." Wrong... it's more like 34 gallons per YEAR. Or, "... washing your car at home uses over 175 gallons, whereas washing it at a commercial carwash will use only 45 gallons due to recycling." Well, with the faucet full-on it took 1 minute and 43 seconds to fill a 5-gallon bucket using a 50-foot 5/8" diameter hose at 70 psi water pressure through 1/2" copper pipe plumbing.)
At approximately 3 gallons per minute, I would have needed to run the water continuously at full blast for nearly an hour to use the 175 gallons they claimed. Instead, I sprayed the car for about 30 seconds, used about a gallon of soapy water to wash with, then rinsed it off for a minute or so... less than 5 gallons. Granted, it's a small car, but still....
