Hot water safety and temperature efficiency is a ‘hot’ topic in Europe, England, and here as well, in Australia. The goal of hot water safety is to prevent terrible bath and shower water scalds in homes and residential buildings, where children and elderly live. The best way to do this – protect people from scalds, is by using thermostatic showers and taps in homes, such as Mixermate thermostatic showers and sink taps.

Thermostatic showers and sink taps have a big impact on preventing and reducing home injuries related to scalding hot water. That is why these are recommended in every home with children and elderly, as well as in hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, resorts, and public restrooms. Basically, thermostatic taps effectively reduces the risk of scalding, if these are calibrated accordingly.

Safety Tips in Using Thermostatic Showers and Taps

It’s true, thermostatic showers and taps work perfectly, if these are calibrated correctly. Mixermate provides easy to follow instructions that lets you adjust the temperature settings of your thermostatic taps, however, when it comes to testing water temperature, most people just let the water run on their wrist to ‘feel’ the desired temperature. But, this is not an accurate method to determine safe water temperature.

Instead, using a kitchen thermometer to accurately test water temperature, so that an accurate safe maximum water temperature can be determined that will not harm anyone, is the best safety tip for calibrating thermostatic showers and taps.

Everyone Benefits from Mixermate Thermostatic Taps

Taking a warm or hot shower at the right temperature is refreshing, especially when standing under the running water in a meditative state of comfort, it feels so good. In this way, showering becomes medicinal, in that it helps people to relax physically, and that relieves stress. Also, the fact that you can expect the same ideal water temperature every time you turn on the tap is another benefit of owning thermostatic showers.

Installing thermostatic shower taps is easy because there is no drilling of holes, or any construction work required. A plumber can simply fit them onto existing plumbing, making it easy to upgrade standard showers and taps to thermostatic ones. With only one lever needed to operate these taps, you can easily adjust the hot and cold water, without worrying about unexpected hot water spewing out from the shower head.

Living with arthritis is difficult, to say the least. And, those who wrestle with it struggle to understand the pain, fatigue and stiffness that they have to go through every day. As patients age, the condition worsens with increasing, constant joint aches that are difficult at best to find a treatment for relief, even from painkillers. However, it is possible to find relief from temperature treatment using water.

Thermostatic Showers for Arthritis Can Ease Discomfort

Can just washing hands or bathing in controlled water temperature really contribute to the treatment and relief from arthritis? Doctors say, yes, water treatment is one of the most natural pain alleviating methods suggested to treat arthritis. In fact, certain types of arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, can be treated to alleviate discomfort and pain with controlled water temperature.

That is exactly why thermostatic showers for arthritis come in handy, to treat discomfort and pain caused by aching joints. Water temperature should be warm and not hot, says doctors. In fact, there should be no sudden increase or decrease in water temperature when joints are soaked and massaged under the shower. Because of this, effective water temperature control devices like Mixermate thermostatic showers are suggested.

Controlled Water Temperature

Traditional ways of heating shower water leads to unpredictable temperature changes that can actually scald the skin. Basically, sudden and unexpected water temperature can cause more damage than relief. Thermostatic showers taps control water in such a way that it will remain within the preset limits, every time the water is turned on.

Therefore, patients suffering from arthritis do not have to keep turning levers in the shower to find the right combination of hot and cold water. More importantly, there are no chances of burns from scalding hot water, spewing unexpectedly out of the shower head. Instead, those with arthritis can freely spend any amount of time enjoying the warmth of water on their joints, without being limited to the amount of water in a traditional water heater.

A Necessity in Homes, Hospitals and Senior Care Homes

People over the age of 40 are increasingly facing issues like arthritis, vasculitis and Raynaud’s disease, where sudden changes in water temperature can cause severe aches, scleroderma, restrict blood circulation and cause tingling sensations in the nerves. So, thermostatic showers for arthritis become important weapons in the fight against temperature issues that aggravate arthritis.