A householder who has been using a Uridan waterless urinal for many years has been interviewed by NMB Television and asked about their experiences.

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Uridan waterless urinal in domestic bathroom

I like taking my time in the shower but, as a student, I'm concerned about the cost on my power bill. Using the Shower Monitor to adjust the flow and temperature I can still take a decent shower, but in a more energy efficient way.

Catherine — PhD Student (Dunedin, New Zealand)

We installed a Shower Monitor. All our bathroom squabbles are behind us. Our power bill is well down and everybody is getting a hot shower every day. The funny thing is nobody in our family realized how much time they were wasting in the shower until we installed the Shower Monitor. Now we know how long we have been in the shower and how much time we have left. The Shower Monitor was a great investment in both money terms and in improving family life.

Bill & Judy (Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Shower Monitor is helpful as the time is displayed on the screen. It is also helpful in that it gives me an idea of how hot the water is and how long I have been in the shower. Overall the Shower Monitor has greatly decreased my shower duration as I want to get out before the time runs out. The Shower Monitor is a great idea and a helpful piece of technology.

Chris — 17yrs (Christchurch, New Zealand)

I am the mother of two girls and they spent lots of time in the shower. It wasn't uncommon for my daughters each to spend 20-30 minutes in the shower a day. We were constantly running out of hot water and we had high power bills. My husband being a keen cyclist would get very annoyed when he returned from riding to no hot water for a shower! It also proved expensive to have to constantly keep heating the hot water from cold.

I spotted the "Shower monitor" at The Star Home Show and purchased it with the aim of limiting my girl's shower times to seven minutes. I installed it as instructed, which took about 10 minutes. I set it up for seven minute's for each shower as shown in the instructions. Easy! Wow, I cannot believe how my girl's shower times have been reduced. They responded from day one and as soon as the alarm goes off they get out. It's fantastic! An added bonus has been the feature to measure water usage. When installed our original shower rose was consuming 15 litres of water per minute! I had no idea we had such an inefficient shower rose. I have since purchased a new more efficient shower rose and our shower now uses only 9 litres of water per minute and it seems to have the same pressure! So the result has been decreased hot water usage from my girls and then we have made further savings with the new shower rose installed and of course, we have never run out of hot water since I installed it.

A top product and the best investment I have made in keeping harmony in my house! For once even my husband has to agreed that this has been a great investment!

Nicky & Steve (Christchurch, New Zealand)

My first thoughts were my wife is going to kill me for fitting a Shower Monitor to our shower, control her shower time! But it doesn't work like that and she has been praising it for helping her with her time management.

With a 16 month old boy in the house and swim and play groups etc to attend, time is always running out. By having the time displayed you can keep a check on the time and if you finish your shower before the time limit is reached you feel you have been cleaned, saved money and arrived on time to the next appointment!

With having a wetback on our fire and the water temperature is always going up and down depending what we're burning and how long, the temperature gauge on the Shower Monitor works great. You can set the temperature to how you like it. One of our showers has no marks on it (chrome sort) so there's no guessing involved and wasting hot water while you find the correct temperature.

Our power bills with two adults and 16 month old baby have dropped by 12%, we expect to save even more in the summer months when the wetback system on the fire is off. I could see that all electric homes with bigger families would make even bigger savings.

The Shower Monitor is easy to fit and works right out of the box. The battery save system only turns on the display when water is flowing through the shower, a quality piece.

Murray & Trudy (Oamaru, New Zealand)