Thread: How do you guys do showers.

if i ever finally get my own house my plan is to run the hot water pipes behind the mirror, not sure where i saw this idea but it seems like it should work.....right?

-dan-

I leave the door open. If not, the hair dryer trick works great.

A little soap on the mirror did the trick. Prior to that trick I used the hair dryer.

How do I shower??


Sadly --- alone

I distribute a jewelry cleaner called Worley's Wonder. I have a few bottles I keep on hand and it prevets fogging. Use it on my sunglasses too. Also works great for chrome and cleaning razors.

If I don't use this I have applied actual lather. I whip up a lather then spread it on with the brush. After a few I wipe it off with a towel. Works very good!

With Olivias bath soaps

Originally Posted by cromagnum

How do I shower??


Sadly --- alone

Here's a story. For a short while, when I got out of the Navy, I drove Tractor Trailer's across the country. The cool part was seeing the entire country. Me, being from NYC/Jersey area, I was impressed with the West. I thought it was Beautiful, NV, AZ, NM, TX, WY, etc...Just spectacular....

Anyway, I bumped into a female truck driver who told me when she got to Nevada, She heard a commercial on her CB Radio for all truckers to stop by this place, and have some free coffee, and hot showers, etc....
Normally, for over the road truckers, Truck stops offer things like free coffee and hot showers when you fill up. Also, before cell phones were so popular, They had land line phones on the tables for truckers to use....

So, She stopped at the place, When she got inside, She had no idea what kind of place this was, You would think half naked women walking around might have been a hint, but noooo..The girl was naive. She checked in, and asks for her shower.

The Girl behind the counter replies, "Would you like your shower with or without....Truck driver girl replies, "With or Without What?"
Counter girl: "With or Without Company?"
She was embarrased, and left the establishment.....

Originally Posted by sinnfein

if i ever finally get my own house my plan is to run the hot water pipes behind the mirror, not sure where i saw this idea but it seems like it should work.....right?

-dan-

Maybe not. Code states that drywall has to be 5/8 thick to be fireproof, now, I could be wrong. This may just be for apartments and stuff. Homes, they can get away with more. I not sure if the heat would transmitt enough to prevent the mirror from fogging...

My first home in Florida needed re piping. In Florida, they put the pipes in the slab, so it's impossible to fix a slab leak, like I had. Sadly, You need to have the entire house re piped. My house was hit by lightning. Very common in Fl. It hit the base of the home like a bomb. All my copper pipes exploded, and it fried everything in my house. True story. Allstate Homeowner's picked up the tab.

When they re piped, they did run the pipes through the attic and made the drops into the bathroom behind the mirror like you said, Sadly, It didn't prevent them from fogging.

The home I'm in now has huge bathrooms with walk in closets and a seperate lavatory and shower. The bathroom counter and mirror aren't near the shower, so it does not fog up, but if it did, I'd do the hair dryer...

Along the same lines as the hair dryer. Get a small clip fan like folks use in an office cubicle. Any air moving across the mirror will clear it off well before you get done lathering & stropping.

Well I had been trying the whole hang a towel infront of the mirror and every time I did the bathroom wouldn't steam up and it was being a pain so I didn't do it and what do ya know, there was fog all over the place, couldn't see a thing in the mirror, so I did a trick of opening up windows and take some soap and lather it onto the mirror and it worked like a charm so I have a good idea on what I can do.

Today I took a shower and soaked my badger brush and my boar that way when I had to lather onto the mirror I could use my boar and what do ya know, nothing happened.

My bathroom hates me I do believe.