Lock for timed shower taps

[Roberto]

Has anyone devised or found a method of locking those button-style timed water taps?

Sure there are several types that cannot be locked, though those with the big button are quite frequent, just thinking of some device to keep the bloody button down and be able to shower/shave with two hands instead of keeping on pushing on the wall.

I have made a thing with some coathanger wire and thin rope but it makes me look like a diy plumber, I would like something less prominent, an adjustable latch maybe ?


regards

 

[Poignard]

With the shower ones I just lean back on the button.

The showers in Lezardrieux have a chain to pull. A length of thin rope from the handle to one's foot works well (and also helps to improve balance).

I wonder if architects and builders undergo special training in how to make marina showers as inconvenient to use as possible. The requirements seem to be:

- water to hot/too cold

- insufficient clothes hooks (none at all in Sainte Marine - take a coat hanger with you)

- shoes to be filled up with water

- clothes to be soaked

- nowhere to put soap and shampoo

- etc

 

[michael_w]

If you can get round the back of the pipework, a sail tie works well. In extremis I've used my wrist watch strap to keep the valve open.

Most shower cubicles are designed by people who live ashore. They only need one hook as all they're wearing is a dressing gown. A good sign liveaboards are in the marina, are the extra coat hooks screwed to the walls.

 

[Roberto]

I wonder if architects and builders undergo special training in how to make marina showers as inconvenient to use as possible.

I think something has to do with theft: a new marina will have everything and be very comfortable, after a couple of seasons they get tired of replacing soap boxes, coat hooks, even neon tubes that keep on being stolen.

A relative of mine was chief designer for trains: they had to devise all sorts of special fittings to avoid people stealing the plastic signs "Do not lean out of the window" (!), or the ashtrays (when there were), or even the luggage netting.

Like the proverbial screw whose head needs a very special screwdriver which is known only to one worker in central china.

 

[Fantasie 19]

Has anyone devised or found a method of locking those button-style timed water taps?

Sure there are several types that cannot be locked, though those with the big button are quite frequent, just thinking of some device to keep the bloody button down and be able to shower/shave with two hands instead of keeping on pushing on the wall.

I have made a thing with some coathanger wire and thin rope but it makes me look like a diy plumber, I would like something less prominent, an adjustable latch maybe ?


regards

Any watch with a plastic style diving strap - Casio etc... just do it up round the button, the strap has enough give to allow you to do it up tight...

 

[Roberto]

thanks all I did not think of the velcro strap, a lot better than the rope

 

[theoldsalt]

Shower with a "friend" and take turns holding the tap button.

 

[Roberto]

Shower with a "friend" and take turns holding the tap button.

oh-ho

 

[Roberto]

also, for those taps that have some kind of sensor where one puts the hands underneath and water comes out, would a sticker work ? or something to keep the sensor covered ?

 

[Poignard]

I think architects/ builders should be compelled to use the facilities they design/install. They might learn something.

 

[VicMallows]

The shower designers might still be one step ahead ......

At a campsite in North Wales this year . Brand-new showers. Holding the button in STILL only gave you the allotted time until released and pressed again! Purely mechanical/pneumatic.

 

[hartcjhart]

a metal washer about the size of a 2p coin with holes drilled opposite with a thin wire 'locked' on one side then pushed through and locked off works for me

 

[LadyInBed]

With the new ones in Cherbourg you need two small wedges / paper clips to incert behind the stainless backing plate to tie your washer / string to

 

[JonJon]

And then there's the type where the lights go off unless you wave your arms frantically the result being a sort of St Vitas dance while you push the button with your back and whilst simultaneously try and soap yourself whilst clutching the same because there is nowhere to put it. I think the whole thing is ridiculous and I agree the architects or the marina owners need to take a shower in some of these penny pinching facilities.

 

[Poignard]

a metal washer about the size of a 2p coin with holes drilled opposite with a thin wire 'locked' on one side then pushed through and locked off works for me

A business opportunity there. You could make your fortune making and selling them :encouragement:

 

[prv]

- nowhere to put soap and shampoo

There are various bathroom accessories that stick to the tiles with suckers, for people in rented accommodation or incapable of basic DIY. I'd never use such a thing as a permanent installation, but I wonder if anybody makes a folding stick-on soap tray that's compact enough to fit in a washbag?

Pete

 

[demonboy]

I find the one push is enough for a quick wash. I mean, how much water do you need? Quick dab here and there and I'm done.

I do seem to have a problem with the ladies though.

 

[Roberto]

I mean, how much water do you need? Quick dab here and there and I'm done.

Think about a bear and the amount of water you'd need to rinse all that hair.
Well, that's me.

 

[Sybarite]

Shower with a "friend" and take turns holding the tap button.

Roberto and I share the same marina but - there are limits....

 

[Resolution]

I find the one push is enough for a quick wash. I mean, how much water do you need? Quick dab here and there and I'm done.

I do seem to have a problem with the ladies though.

Your smell or your speed?