Hot and cold showers are a commonplace in most homes and hotels today, and having the option to choose between the two, or a mixture of both, is a prerequisite staple amenity for any decent bathroom. Availability of hot and cold showers is truly a wonderful luxury, especially after a long day of work. Depending on the season, choosing a calming hot shower in the winter months or a cold refreshing shower during the hot summer months is invigorating.

However, depending on the faucet set, trying to reach an ideal medium temperature ‘manually’ between hot and cold water can be tricky and disappointing for some. Not anymore, with Mixermate and its special features!

Mixermate and its special features.

The difficulty many folks have with current two-faucet style systems is that a person showering needs to calibrate the hot and cold water separately, to achieve the desired water temperature. This balancing act, turning the hot and cold water faucet on simultaneously, is difficult for some people. Unfortunately, two-faucet style hot and cold showers aren’t always ideal for people with wrist injuries or disabilities, nor are they ideal for elderly individuals, as it can be quite difficult to twist and turn the faucets with ease.

Most people know what it’s like to have hot and cold water blast out from a faucet unexpectedly, and the immediate need to make adjustments so that they will not get scalded or shocked with a sudden blast of too-hot or too-cold water. For cases where there is a need for consistent bathing water temperatures and ease of access for injured or elderly individuals, standardised faucets simply will not do.

Fortunately, there are Mixermate special features available which allow for a far more ergonomically designed faucet that requires little to no wrist twisting-motion in order to turn on the water.

A better solution, Mixermate taps.

Mixermate taps are a revolutionary solution that provides ease of access to hot and cold showers, making it perfect for households, companies, and hospices that cater towards the injured or the elderly. Mixermate is a state-of-the-art contraption which combines the differing hot and cold faucets into one single, easy-to-manipulate, one-touch shower latch. What’s more, the Mixermate readily combines hot and cold water to a preset temperature that you determine, so that you get consistent showering water temperatures each time, every time!

No more sudden scalding, no more shocking cold jolts – each time you turn on the easy-twist latch, you get perfect bathing water just the way you like it! Perfect for the elderly, but a great feature to have anyplace, Mixermate is your instant solution to showering perfection!

There’s a host of domestic foibles and plumbing-related issues that require humbling when you take a shower. An upstairs toilet flushes and the cone of temperate water stutters. Someone in the kitchen decides now is a good moment to wash the dishes, resulting in the shower water taking on an arctic chill. Situations like these are common and able-bodied bathers can quickly adjust. Unfortunately, in the case of folk with ailments that affect fine motor control, this act is harder to accomplish. Mixer settings can’t be regulated with a casual twist of a manually-operated valve, which is why the advent of the thermostatic shower valve is such a welcome addition, one that fits well within care homes and the residence of a proud, independent older person.

A thermostatic shower incorporates a specialized mechanism that swaps out the manual controls of the shower in favour of an automated system. The manual mixer valve is gone, replaced by anti-scald technology where the flow and temperature controls are separated. This format benefits arthritic fingers and joints by placing mastery of every aspect of a perfectly controlled bathing experience within fingertip control. Better than that, with the manual control limitation removed, temperature and flow management can take on any form, thus focusing on the method of operation rather than the mechanics. In other words, a stylish design may operate on a simple slider mechanism or a touch-sensitive and waterproof membrane. This design ethic also benefits confused and aged minds by simplifying the mixing equation. There’s no need for fine adjustments of two valves, the blending of cold water and hot water. Instead, the thermostatic control model needs only a single dial to precisely control the temperature. The same operational model, of course, applies to flow mastery, leading to thermostatic shower models that use one control for temperature and one for flow.

The bather-centric system adopted by a hydrostatic installation is also far more flexible than standard manual mixer products. There’s the option to address the hazardous scenarios associated with the elderly and the disabled. For example, a maximum bathing temperature is typically attached to the valve, thus distinguishing the gear as an ideal fit for those who have slight to significant movement issues. The automation feature also extends to cover those domestic problems mentioned at the beginning of the article, the dish washing spells and toilet flushes that an arthritic hand can’t react to fast enough. This is done by incorporating a feedback mechanism into the stream, a component that keeps the shower temperature constant despite those domestic plumbing changes that are encountered in every home.

High-end thermostatic showers now offer mechanical and electrical water management features, adaptable controls that compare favourably with the likes of power steering systems as used in hard to maneuver vehicles, though instead of a complex series of hydraulics, a thermostatic valve uses an elegant array of foolproof thermostatically controlled components. Of course, there’s no substitute for close monitoring. Always offer an aged bather aid if the showering experience overwhelms his or her ability level.