Idiot needs help

[Notinhotwater]

Hello,

recently temporarily (hopefully) moved into a hmo. Cheap and cheerful and will do me until work is back to normal post pandemic.

My bathroom has water (inc in rent) and electric shower, bathroom has cold water only. Electric is metered I pay for.

it’s not the warmest building as it’s big, old and Victorian. Not having hot water to wash my hands in or wash my face in is really getting me a bit down. I’m one of those idiots who likes bruising their teeth with warm water too. In the summer it’ll be better but right now being freezing generally and putting my hands in freezing water is just torture.

as a renter I’m a bit limited as to what changes I can make. Is there any such thing as a plug in heater / mini tank I could use for a bit of hot water in the sink? Ideally attached to the hot tap that can easily be put back when I move out. Or alternatively is there anything I could attach to the shower to create a waist height “tap” - I.e switchable flexible hose attachment on a splitter? If that even exists!

Thank you

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Bathroom should have hot water it’s regs and it’s law

 

[Chuck]

Not having hot water to wash my hands in or wash my face in is really getting me a bit down. I’m one of those idiots who likes bruising their teeth with warm water too.

It's not a good idea to use stored hot water from a bathroom tap to brush your teeth. I've got a photo somewhere of sludge in a storage tank that includes all the pieces of a dead squirrel.

Whatever you do, don't bring a portable electrical heater into the bathroom, it would be extremely dangerous.

What I'd probably do is buy an insulated coffee pot like caterers use at meetings, they usually hold about 3 litres, and fill it half and half with cold water and boiling water from a kettle. This should give a portable supply of water at ca 50°C that's okay to use for teeth-cleaning. Be careful not to scald yourself.

 

[WC1]

If there's an elec shower surely fill a basin off that for hand-wash/ tooth brushing, am I missing something?
I'm not recommending it but as you're in a pinch, if you get another shower hose and a "15mm compression straight coupling":

Amazon product
- throw away the nuts and copper rings and use the centre bit to join the two shower hoses together you can then extend the shower outlet to fill the basin via the shower. Don't lose the rubber rings which sit inside the shower hose joints.

It doesn't comply with regs but it seems an easy fix for someone in dire straits. Good luck

(And stop brushing your teeth with hot water, who does that?)