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[edit] Replacement piece

I suggest adding the name of the electrical piece with filament/spring/coil that goes inside some Shower Heads to heat the water and sometimes you need to replace it.

[edit] Typical water consumption?

I suggest adding some information about how much water is consumed when taking, say a 15 minute shower. This number may vary from country to country.Nuzz604 21:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)


add some sources...where did you get your information?--Weakmassive 18:25, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


i heard people generally do their "best" thinking while in the shower and driving. has anyone else heard this?

Any moving water increases concentration of ions in air. Oxygenation of the blood is enhanced in highly ionized environments (this is not scientifically proven, see Ion therapy). It may help thinking. However, some verification is needed. Jaroslav Pavliš (talk) 19:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Skin Diseases

What could happen to you if you don't shower regularly? I think someone should put that info in. Wikiman232 03:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, but from what I've heard I think you will stink so badly that you could even smell yourself. But yeah, I agree, we need info on that. TheBlazikenMaster 19:28, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heart Rate

Going from a sleep state straight into a hot shower raises the heart rate more dramatically than say a room temperature shower, and doing this every day of your life must put stain on a heart over a lifetime, I wonder if any research has ever been done into this?

[edit] ShowerReview.com

I think it's time to blacklist this page. But I'm not a member of wikimedia meta, so I wouldn't blacklist it. Anyway, someone needs to blacklist this page. It has nothing but videos, much like YouTube. Gives no good info about showers, just videos of showers. TheBlazikenMaster 11:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion for merging Steam shower to Shower

This article is small enough that there is less of a need for being an independent article, and it can benefit from being included in this article.—Tokek 23:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural Significance Section

"Showering has today largely replaced bathing. Many households today do not own a bathtub any more, but rather a shower in its place." This is little more than speculation without a citation.

I agree - but the entire article is a mess in my eyes. The group shower images are totally unecessary (and the first has another unsourced caption), and the layout looks ridiculous because there are several sub-headings and barely enough text to go under any of them. The quote is superfluous and has been formatted incorrectly. Gunstar hero 18:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Call for a scientific research on shower relating to environmental and disease protection

From my gut feeling, a morning shower mainly cleans my (multi-dimentional) aura while a night shower mainly my (3D) body. It trigs me to think why not to conduct a research with 4 groups of people (daily morning shower persons, night ones, morning and night group and a non-daily shower group). I'm sure there will be some variations on environmental, disease and living ages.

[edit] Daily??

Come on you guys, daily? That's gonna strip all the oil off your skin and make you itchy. Maybe if you work out heavily every day or work in a coal mine... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 18:18, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

That squares with my experience; most people I know seem to shower daily. I have heard that people in Europe tend to clean themselves (if not shower, per se) less frequently, and people in hotter climates tend to clean themselves more than once a day. I do use moisturizing soap to prevent dry skin, but if I don't shower every day, I will definitely get itchy. It would be interesting to find some anthropological studies on the subject. -- Beland 23:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elderly & Disabled

This tiny little section seems badly put together, anybody else think it should just be removed? 71.171.255.131 (talk) 23:25, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just to make sure.

You do wear clothes when you take a shower right, because nothing else in the article tells me otherwise. Just think if an alien read this article. That wouldn't be good.141.150.241.220 (talk) 15:09, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Nothing tells you that because it isn't encyclopedic. Encyclopedias don't tell you what to do/not do, it's not a guide, it gives general information. And no, I never wear clothes while taking a shower, simply because I'm in shower to clean myself up, and I can't clean up my body if I wear clothes, cleaning up the body is the main purpose of taking a shower. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 18:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


I'm fairly certain that anybody old enough to read this article is going to know that you don't wear clothes in a shower. If an alien feels the need to learn English just to read this article, then we can confront that issue when it comes..--Jcreek201 (talk) 23:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


The person that brought this issue up is correct. Here is proof: Wikipedia:OBVIOUS 71.245.194.46 (talk) 12:43, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How is shower relevant to Architecture?

TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 19:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

It is a part of home architecture, being part of the bathroom. And pare of institutional architecture, like school gymnasiums, prisons, fire stations etc.

By the way, the statement that: Tiles are generally waterproof, so larger surface area's of grout are less waterproof. Thus small mosaic tiles offer less of a defence than large format tiles. Is incorrect or at least misleading as far as modern construction is concerned. As an architect I would recommend smaller tile as part of a shower or drying room floor rather than larger. Smaller tile have more grout and more traction. Large tiles may be fine for walls, but will be more slipery unless specially textured. Typically a shower floor would have say 1" square tile. WonderWheeler (talk) 06:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move.

Undiscussed move, and this article doesn't just talk about the stall. — TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 23:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Support the request. Shower (unmodified) is not seriously ambiguous except for the type of precipitation which doesn't even have its own article. A hatnote reading something like "Shower is also a type of precipitation. For other uses, see shower (disambiguation)." will do the trick. — AjaxSmack 09:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong Oppose Anthony Appleyard's suggestion. Normally undiscussed moves like yesterday are reverted, I don't know why we need to discuss this to revert the undiscussed move. Most people looking up shower would expect to find an article ABOUT a shower for bathing in general. I still can't believe we need a poll to revert an undiscussed move, I have seen undiscussed moves just reverted quickly, not reverted by a poll. Since most people looking up shower would expect to find an information about shower for bathing I think it should be reverted to the way it was. I still think it should have been reverted to the name shower and THEN discussed. Sure shower has more meanings, that's why there is a hatnote at the top. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 11:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I have been caught in the open by so many unexpected rain showers that, to me, the bathroom shower is far fro being a dominant meaning. OK, OK, I will revert the move as requested.Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] Field shower merge proposal

Oppose - the differences between the engineering of field showers and domestic showers are so vast that they are probably only connected by both using water. Besides this, the field shower is a piece of military equipment used by combat support service units, and a great morale booster, something that is difficult to convey in a domestic shower article--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 08:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The field shower really needs to be expanded. There are several types, as well as several uses, ranging from the individual gravity and powered items to large installations that can handle large units in the field, and come with tankers and pump/generator plants. Aside from the obvious use, there are also the decontamination showers used by either NBC or hazardous environment units --mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 14:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment - What was the reason for merging it anyway? TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 11:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    Because field shower is a substub with absolutely no technical detail whatsoever? From the current state of it, it sounds like a field shower is someone waving a hose over a group of people. If it's just some random military jargon it doesn't need its own article; communal showers can easily be incorporated here. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why continue to confuse people

The scheme for bath, bathtub, and bathing was agreed upon long ago and my changes to shower, shower (stall), showering, and Shower (disambiguation) matched that agreed upon scheme. Showering can and was supported by its own article as was shower stall. Is there a reason why the shower, shower (stall), showering, and Shower (disambiguation) should not match the agreed upon bath, bathtub, and bathing scheme? Is there a reason to merge the widely known and written about activity of showering with the widely known and written devices that support that activity? And when people go to look for shower as in rain, do you think it appropriate that shower stall be brought up? As it stands, when people search for the essentially equally popular meanings of shower being (1) brief fall of rain, (2) shower stall/room, (3) shower washing activity, and (4) a party given for a bestowal of presents, they bring up the present article on shower stall. How does this meet the disamb policy? Why should there not be an article dedicated to talking about the stall and the other three well known meanings. Please give this some thought and reconsider your reactive decisions. Thanks. Williamhortner (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I think showering is definitely notable enough to have its article. I didn't see any discussion about moving this page so I asked someone to revert. If there was in fact a discussion about moving this page to shower (stall) please lead me to it. Believe me, I did not get your move reverted as bad intention. I hope you don't think it was my bad intention. I really would like to revert the merge into this article, but I'm not so sure if others agree, you have my support about showering being an independent article. I can't see how it can't be. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 17:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't agree that this isn't the clear primary use. Simply applying a scheme which works for an entirely different set of words doesn't immediately strike me as a good solution either. In the case of bath there is at least one other very obvious non-dictdef primary use, the town. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 07:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)