Many of us often have to save on literally everything: electricity, gas and water. How exactly to do this is a personal matter for everyone. You can live like in a hole, without light, but save money. You can drink unboiled water instead of tea, you can not drink at all. Such a strange economy.
If we do not understand how to save some pennies on utilities, then we will definitely be prompted, explained and even offered inexpensively some kind of cunning engineering device to really reduce costs. There are a lot of such specialists now, and everyone is trying to help us wholeheartedly and sincerely. But for our money, which we have not yet managed to save on such a device.
One of such developments is a water aerator. Do not rush to express your skepticism, do not rush to present your life arguments. Just buy yourself such a device and wait for happiness.
Is there a secret?
Almost every kitchen sink or bath faucet has a built-in aerator. It's like a faucet. The task of the nozzle is very simple - to break the stream of water into small streams, while saturating it with air. The goal is also simple - to calm the jet, to reduce the amount of splashes that scatter around the sink.
The device is a fine mesh that is wound or screwed onto a faucet or mixer tube. This is very convenient when the splashes do not scatter around, do not fall on the apron, on the floor and all objects adjacent to the sink.
But this is a simple model, it does not provide any savings. It's just that the manufacturer thought about the consumer and took care of the minimum comfort. This is a big plus for the manufacturer.
How to use an aerator for less water
A line of new devices has appeared on the engineering development market. A whole network of manufacturers with loud but incomprehensible names offer their innovation - an aerator. At first glance, the same item, but designed to reduce the amount of water used without sacrificing comfort.
At the moment when something is obsessively offered, the images of the great Ostap Bender and Ellochka the cannibal always rise before my eyes. Or rather, not the images themselves, but the vision of a small and priceless tea net. Who did Ostap represent? Most likely an advertising agent or sales representative. Now they would say about him that he masterfully made a presentation of the goods, and then illiterate people would say it easier - he knows how to suck it in.
This device is a completely different matter. This is not a tea bag for you. The most important thing is that no additional components are needed for installation. All you need is a special key, which costs exactly half the cost of the aerator itself. Expensive, but leaves no marks or scratches on your wallet or soul.
The principle of operation of such a complex engineering squeak of fashion is simple to madness - it breaks water into small streams and saturates it with air. But not just saturates, but saturates with economy. How does this happen?
Air Sellers
Every site that offers a faucet aerator has a promotional video. On the video, a young man, with a convincing voice, with sincere confidence, demonstrates experimental evidence of the device's performance.
He skillfully twists one or the other nozzle into the faucet and measures the amount of water that flows out of the faucet in a certain time. Only performs measurements for some reason not on the water meter.
Ordinary and boring aerators do not save water. And economical ones - in ten seconds, with a fully open tap, they pour two whole glasses into a measuring glass! What exactly are two? This is not explained.
Then, with the hands of a surgeon or a musician, the presenter winds a nozzle onto the faucet, which can save 75-80%! Opens the tap and pours only 0.2 through the nozzle into the measuring cup in ten seconds! Units of measurement are not important in such a mind-blowing trick!
What is most interesting - the water in the measuring cup has no foreign smell and taste. And if you decide to cook soup and start pouring water into a saucepan through the aerator, then it will take longer to pour, and the water meter will show exactly the same amount as flowed into your future soup.
After watching this video, you do not know where to run. To the bank - to withdraw money to buy this miracle or to where the famous dog Mukhtar still lives.
The lineup
When you need a faucet nozzle called an aerator, look at the official websites for offers from companies:
- Premium (Germany)
- Terla - Premium (Italy)
- Eco-standard (Germany)
- Tescoma and others
They did their job masterfully - they made wonderful compact aerators that turn the water jet from our faucet into a soft stream.
These aerators are truly water-saving because they keep it from splashing onto clothes and the floor. If you wash your hands or dishes, then really air-saturated water will be spent less. But saving and saving are two different things. These concepts, close in meaning, are often used not very honestly.
You can carefully pour gasoline from a canister into a gas tank - this is savings. And you can drive 100 km using 6 liters of gasoline instead of 10 - this is savings.
In some reviews, buyers write that they did not notice much difference, and if there is, then no more than 20-30%. Interesting - how did they find out?
