I admit it. I talk a good game about being environmentally responsible and socially conscious, but when push comes to shove, I hoist the libertarian Jolly Roger. To hell with you, Jack, I got mine.
Our Cape Cod place was build in the mid-eighties. In 1992, that elitist socialist President George H.W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act. The act
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That's "Step number zero" in installation of a new shower head, for sure. Best handheld shower I've ever had (and I've had many) is the Moen "Twist" item-I can't figure out why it took someone so long to figure out that yes, this is the way to do it; the rotate-the-collar-around-the-showerhead way is wrong. The Twist has a green plastic flow limiter, not a red one, but the flow limitation is done by a rubber O-ring installed in a groove in the limiter. Pick the O-ring out with a screwdriver…done.
(It's also not illegal to flush the toilet twice…or thrice…or however many times it takes to do the job one flush used to do, grrr…)
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Meaning, if you want a decent low-flow toilet, you have to specify a 2" trap or face a life of multiple flushes (or, as I would sometimes do, keep a bucket handy to supplement the flow).
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