Why You Should Take Cold Showers

I keep the temperature setting lower on the water heater, so everyone has to take cooler showers in the warmer months of the year. It really does help us save on our propane usage.

Despite its benefits i tend to get a cold everytime i take a colder shower. But here is another tip, you can turn of your water heater when you do not intend to use hot water, if you keep it on it keeps working and working.

one downside to having cold showers is over winter months i’d imagine you’d have to end up turning the heating up so that you can get warm again to a comfortable temperature, which will then use more power. perhaps a better alternative is to have a small shower room/space so that the steam heats up the shower space quickly and then you can still be hot and lower the heat

We also turn down our hot water heater thermostat in the summer. Our house was replumbed and the pipes now run through the attic, so sometimes we even get hot water for free (whether we want it or not).

I have heard, although I’ve never officially verified it, that if you are really overheated and jump into a cold pool or drink a glass of ice cold water, you could shock your system too much and it could kill you. I don’t know if it’s really true, but I suppose it’s worth keeping in mind.