Those who are lucky here all year round goes to the fitness club. A monthly subscription just for the sake of washing is not a cheap pleasure, its cost can be close to the price of an annual one.
What are the options:
In some places you can do without training by sneaking straight into the shower. This includes swimming pools and water parks. Sports locker rooms with showers are available in some parks in major cities. But in some place with a dozen visitors, you’ll have to go to a class so as not to arouse suspicion. Well, or negotiate with the administrator.
Don't bet on fancy saunas with gambling and corrupt love. Your choice is municipal baths. You can even take a shower in them very cheaply - for a couple of hundred. It will most likely be dull there. But it’s not as dull as watering yourself from a ladle. However, you can boo: there are usually steam rooms there too.
It's even very suitable cheap option with a bed in a common room for 100,500 people: you only need a shower. Option for the sociable: try to negotiate with the administrator for a hundred rubles only for water treatments, without check-in.
The toilet at the station often has a shower. It's quite depressing there, but there is hot water. If you're really desperate or live close to a train station, consider this option.
Not an obvious option for the violent. Yes, the neighbors were turned off too hot water. But if they have a water heater or geyser, life-giving moisture they have it too. And go with a washcloth staircase much more convenient than traveling halfway across town.
It’s probably not worth walking around apartments in search of hot water. But if you communicate with one of your neighbors, you may well take a risk. If it is very pitiful to tell you how you suffer without necessary conditions, you may be invited themselves.
Don’t forget to thank them with money or gifts, because next year the hot water will be turned off again, and no one likes a greedy person.
This option, on the contrary, is obvious. If you don't have hot water, it's time to remember that you really miss your loved ones living in another area.
Do you know any creative ways to wash yourself during the hot water outage season?
The standards of cleanliness and personal hygiene accepted in a civilized society are no joke. They are wired into a person’s consciousness from the first day of his life. Therefore, the planned shutdown of hot water in summer period- this is not just everyday discomfort, but something more that greatly complicates life. But there is a way out! And not even alone. Best Practices and original ideas especially for you.
If heating basins, ladles, saucepans and buckets of water is categorically unacceptable to you (although this method of washing is in the lead compared to others), there are other solutions to the issue.
Heating water in pots is not a good idea
The advantage of purchasing a water heater is obvious - hot water at any time. But there are also disadvantages that differ depending on the type of water heater:
Using a boiler to heat water today can already be called an old-fashioned method. The water takes a long time to heat up. For example, using a bucket boiler, it will take at least an hour to heat a standard bath. But the process can be speeded up if you use several devices.
Three boilers will heat bath water in 20 minutes
We must not forget about the rules for using a boiler. The device is only partially immersed in water, up to the mark indicated on it. Otherwise, there is a risk of a small explosion if the boiler plugged into the outlet is not immersed in water. Or a short circuit if its handle with electrical filling, which is not designed for complete immersion, ends up in the water.
Using hot water from a washing machine for bathing - non-standard solution. However, it is comfortable to use this method only if washing machine stands right next to the bathtub.
What we do:
“Whoever goes to visit in the morning acts wisely” - the Winnie the Pooh song may become relevant if you have friends whose hot water has not been turned off. But there are two options here:
In any case, it's worth a try. It's better than not washing at all. And at the same time you will find out who is your friend and who is “neither friend nor enemy, but so...”
If the hot water is turned off in the house, the most logical thing to do is go to the bathhouse to wash, since they are now available in every city. But for some reason many people forget about this simple method, which was used by our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers who did not have bathrooms in their apartments and houses. Prices in washrooms depend on the level of eliteness of the establishment and can reach several thousand per session, as, for example, in the capital's Sanduny. But you can also find quite a budget option for a couple of hundred rubles.
There is such a tradition - to go to the bathhouse in the summer
Sometimes baths, saunas and steam rooms offer related services: from herbal teas and bath sheets, to birch brooms and massage services. Most often they cost some money, but the cost can significantly exceed the entrance fee. Therefore, it is better to familiarize yourself with the price list in advance.
Any decent sports club has showers so that visitors can clean themselves up after grueling workouts. Sports clubs with swimming pools always have showers - this is a standard norm: you must wash in them before visiting so as not to contaminate the water inside hydraulic structure. After swimming, it is not necessary to wash, but it is advisable - the water in the pools comes with the addition of chlorine, and you should not leave traces of it on the skin. If you have been planning to go in for sports for a long time, but it still hasn’t worked out, purchasing a subscription will the best solution: you can wash yourself, pump up your muscles, and improve your health.
But there are disadvantages:
If you find out in advance about the time of the upcoming water outage, you can combine this period with your next vacation from work and go to hot countries to the seas and oceans. True, this method of solving the problem is the most expensive, but in 2-3 weeks on the sand under a palm tree you will never remember the lack of water and will have a good rest.
On the shore of the pool near the sea you will forget about the lack of water
If you just can’t understand why in our country, which has been launching for more than half a century spaceships If you still haven’t learned how to not turn off the hot water in the summer, you can effectively express your protest. And at the same time, wash yourself and, perhaps, overcome social fear.
What we do:
They will definitely pay attention to you, but they will hardly dare to ask questions. If you do find such a daredevil, calmly answer him: “The water was turned off at my house. Am I supposed to walk around dirty? There will be no more questions - it's checked.
The method has one significant drawback: the water in the fountains is not specially heated for bathing. But if the day is hot, the water circulating in the closed system will be much warmer than tap water.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no need to fear legal punishment for swimming in a fountain. In the Code of Administrative Offences, you will not find the article “Swimming in fountains”. This means that there is no liability.
After Western countries swimming in fountains has already begun to spread in our area. True, so far without soap and washcloths.
Now you know where you can wash yourself after turning off the hot water. This means you can survive this difficult period with dignity.
Hot water, as you know, is turned off at the most inopportune moment, despite the fact that, as a rule, this is warned in advance - notices are posted in the entrances, the schedule is published on the official website of the mayor of Moscow. Summer, long walks around the city, cycling and much more cause an uncontrollable desire to wash. But there is nothing to do - you have to adapt. While some resort to kettles and basins to wash themselves, while others storm friends’ apartments, “VM” suggests approaching the issue in a more original way. After all, these 10 hardest days of summer should also be spent with humor.
Fake wash
It will be a discovery for many, but a washing machine can be useful not only for washing clothes. Moreover, without hot water, you can even take a bath with it. We don’t promise a heavenly holiday, but you will actually be able to wash yourself. To do this, direct the drain to the bathtub, set the mode high temperature and start the wash with an empty drum (without clothes). The machine will warm the water and fill the bath over time hot water. The only recommendation is that you should not combine business with pleasure, namely, bathing and washing, for example, your favorite shirts, socks or other small things. We believe that after such an experiment you will have to swim again.
Self-service mode
There are self-service car washes in the capital - without special people who clean up your car while you peacefully sip coffee or hang out in in social networks. And turning off the hot water is a great opportunity to get to know them if you haven’t had such experience yet. Just don’t forget to load bath accessories and a change of clothes into the car - hot water, a room closed from prying eyes (but not always - be careful) will allow you to at least briefly remember what it’s like to swim under warm shower. And we have one piece of advice - in the foamy bliss, don’t forget to wash the car.
Take it and dry yourself
Everyone knows about the wiping method, but not everyone takes it seriously. But in vain. Cosmonauts, by the way, only resort to it. Wet wipes, wet towels (by the way, you can soak them in useful solutions chamomile, calendula, etc.) - can save you from the epic with buckets for a while. As for hair, dry shampoos will come to the rescue. True, we advise you not to place high hopes on them - they work with varying degrees of success.
They will help you
If finances allow, you can take a shower in paid places. For example, a fitness club, water park, bathhouse, and so on. By the way, it is equipped with a shower historical toilet in GUM, there are even all the necessary accessories for swimming. Also, turning off the hot water can inspire you to get a new haircut or hairstyle - in short, to go to the hairdresser, where they will wash your hair before the procedure. The main thing is not to get carried away in ten days without hot water and turn from a long-haired nymph into the owner of a bob.
In Moscow, the activities of saunas and fitness clubs are regularly monitored for the provision of low-quality or questionable services to residents
PHOTO: Natalya Feoktistova, “Evening Moscow”
Outdoor shower
If you haven’t been able to get out to the country for a long time, now is the time to put everything aside and go out of town. And if there are problems with hot water there too, then it’s time to install Summer shower. You can buy a small booth in a store or build it yourself. Install a tank on the roof, the water in which will be heated in the sun. It is better to add water in the morning so that it has time to warm up throughout the day. But just in case, get ready for hardening or read more carefully about the wiping method above - the capital cannot boast of hot weather right now.
Time to boil
Most city residents have long forgotten about the boiler. And he, by the way, can help out in such a difficult life moment as 10 days without hot water. Just run a bath cold water(but do not fill it to the top, otherwise you will have to wait a long time) and immerse the boiler. After some time, the water will become much warmer. Just remember to keep an eye on the device - you could get into trouble.
Hot summer day in Moscow
PHOTO: Natalya Feoktistova, “Evening Moscow”
And finally, if you need to give your child a bath, take him for a walk to Muzeon Park, where the baby can splash in a dry fountain. Or rub it with something tasty - your cat, who knows how to do without hot water, will be very grateful to you!
What are the cheapest public baths in Moscow? I have compiled the TOP 15 best inexpensive public baths in Moscow.
I took the cost of a cleaning hour as the reference criterion for assessing the cost, since different baths sell tickets for different time visits, I brought them to a common denominator - 1 hour, where possible. I took into account the cost of unlimited visits to the bathhouse, if such a service was available. Briefly described what services you can purchase for additional cost, but I didn’t take that into account.
So, the leader in my rating of inexpensive public baths in Moscow is Lublin Baths. Is it true Lately Visitors began to scold them, but I hope that they will correct all the shortcomings! The cost of unlimited access to this bathhouse is much lower than average cost 1 washing hour in most other baths. In second place - Kapotninsky baths. Despite the fact that the ticket is limited in time, its cost is very low. This bathhouse is highly praised by visitors. We got third place Ostroumovsky And Lefortovo Baths, the cost of a wash hour is slightly higher than in previous baths, but still very low. In legendary Sandunakh the highest prices for 1 washing hour, but many people go there, the service and interior there are at the highest level!
In fact, the cost entrance ticket a bathhouse largely depends on what it can offer you - do you want marble and chic, or just a steam bath with your soul? It all depends on the preferences of each individual person. Also, for some, it is preferable to spend the whole day in the bathhouse, and then it is beneficial to consider baths and saunas with an unlimited tariff, while for others, just a couple of hours for washing is enough.
Baths with the possibility of purchasing an unlimited ticket for the day from my TOP 15 inexpensive baths and saunas:
Some baths operate special conditions depending on gender, it is necessary to take into account the schedule for visiting the bathhouse for men and women. In many baths low prices for visits on weekdays in the morning. Perhaps for some this time will be preferable. Many public baths increase the cost of admission on weekends and evenings, while others stick to a flat rate. In any case, any organization reserves the right to change visiting conditions and prices, so it is better to clarify them by phone immediately before your visit. And, of course, it makes sense to consider a bathhouse not far from home, so as not to have to get to it and then back for several hours, and not waste potential rest time on the road.
