I savor taking long showers when it’s chilly outside.
You assume moderate and at total peace, with the gentle water forming a cocoon around your chilly body.
And since I live in a condominium where the water is free, I assume even more emboldened to take showers for as long as our comfort dictates. In reality though, I’m still paying to heat the water inside our electric water heater. I try to keep this in mind, but more often than not I overlook the electricity costs and simply prioritize feeling unbelievable while the people I was with and I were in the irritated Wintertide season. There were still things that I needed to address after I started reading about powder room humidity on the internet. Most powder rooms have air registers linked to the central Heating and Air Conditioning system, assuming the beach house has forced air heating and cooling. In these situations, you have to control the amount of condensation that forms on the metal air registers if you have the air conditioner on while you shower. The chilly metal causes the moisture in the air to bead up and sweat on the outer surface of the vent. Eventually enough moisture can collect in the drywall around the vent, leading to mold problems. If you don’t have a vent linked to your air conditioner, then you easily need a ventilation fan to the roof. This will pull the steam out of your powder room that would otherwise collect all over the surfaces of your walls and ceiling, another source of danger regarding mold and mildew. Ideally in the best situations you’d have access to both. You’d have an Heating and Air Conditioning air register to push chilly air into the powder room while pulling hot and humid air out. And whenever you need to ventilate the powder room for whatever reason, you’ll have the ventilation fan as well.