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Showerguard Shower Timers - The First Of The Smart Shower Mixers.

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Showerguard Shower Timers - The First Of The Smart Shower Mixers.

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Freight free in New Zealand / manufacturer direct price to all Greenlist purchasers.
Wholesale ex factory price: $ 375.00

Description

Introduction to Showerguard™

This product is new to the market after six years of development work and will appeal to any conservation minded customers seeking to include the latest water and energy saving products in their new or renovated home.

The Showerguard™ shower timer comes in mains or low pressure valves, costs 15 cents a year to run and has a payback period of less than six months for most homes. Silent, consistent and timed using a low energy micro processor, flow switch and solenoid valve.

The cost at $300.00 AU - $395.00NZ is nominal and installation practically free in a new or renovated house.

The principal benefits include water and energy saving, automatic regulation of family shower times even when you are not there to check it, and the environmental benefits to the home owner of reduced water, waste water and water heating costs.

Showerguard™ does away with the need to install low flow shower heads instead it gives you reduced water and energy use by regulating the length of your shower enabling a strong shower flow for the enjoyment of the home owner.
Showerguard™ units can be easily set by the home owner for shower times between two and twenty minutes, with cool pulses of water one minute then 30 seconds before the shower time ends to warn that the hot water flow is about to end.

The units have a service life of around 20 years can be fitted to showers using shower taps or mixers and come with a one year unconditional return to base factory warranty.

Kind regards,

Alan Currie

Managing Director Showerguard™ Limited
65 Tawa Road, One Tree Hill, Auckland 1061, New Zealand cell +64 27 628 6763 tel / fax +64 9 636 4433
www.showerguard.co.nz –info@showerguard.co.nz
 

Where you can find it

www.showerguard.co.nz

order by phone or email:

info@showerguard.co.nz

Certification

This product has been invented, patented and made in New Zealand

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Your comments Edwards Family (Titirangi Auckland)
19 Jul 2009 07:18 AM

14th July 2009,
Alan Currie,
Showerguard Limited,
65 Tawa Road,
One Tree hill,
Auckland.
Dear Alan, Re Showerguard Shower controller.
I feel that I must write to tell you how delighted we are with the showerguard that we had fitted in November 2008.
The device is simply unbelievable. Our showerguard is set at 7 minutes.
Having boys who still live at home in their early twenties and their friends continually showering at our place before a big night on the town, the showerguard has paid for itself at least three times over.
Our water bills show a decrease and our power bills are down too.
Thanks for making us aware of it.
As previously stated we are absolutely delighted!
Sheila and Mike Edwards,
Titirangi


Your comments Alan Currie (Auckland)
19 May 2009 03:46 PM

WATER CONSERVATION DEVICE INVENTED BY WEST AUCKLANDER
A simple device fitted to a household shower that is leading the way in water and energy conservation was invented by West Aucklander Alan Currie out of sheer frustration.
The device a combination of a micro processor and special valves fitted to the bathroom shower can be programmed to limit showers to a specific time saving hundreds of dollars a year in power bills and water consumption.
With four teenagers in his Titirangi home some years ago, Alan Currie says their hot water usage was huge, particularly with one son who could empty the family’s standard 180 litre hot water cylinder in one go.
“The family bathroom was right behind our bedroom wall and I’d hear the shower going on late at night just as I was drifting off to sleep. After 10 minutes I’d bang on the wall, then 10 minutes later I’d get up and tell him to get out, then I’d turn the lights off and finally when the cylinder was nearly empty I’d resort to turning the water off by torchlight under the house,” he says.
A master builder at the time, Alan thought there had to be some way to restrict shower usage other than the latter drastic action of climbing under the house at night and set out to develop the product that is now called Showerguard. www.showerguard.co.nz
Five years of research and development, the product is now manufactured by a Glendene engineering firm and patented in five countries from the UK to New Zealand. Showerguard is mostly sold by word of mouth, off the website or through Alan’s bathroom renovation business www.jubileebathrooms.co.nz
“People who have installed it love it, especially those with teenagers, home stays, boarders or just large families where power and water usage is an issue,” he says.
Potentially the market is huge, not just in New Zealand where rising power bills are hurting family households and water shortages are threatening blackouts, but in places like Australia where continuing droughts are a real threat to whole communities that already have water restrictions in place.
“Hot water soaks up about 44% of your monthly power bill so a device like this can be a substantial saving. You have the choice on what setting you put it, so your
household can have showers ranging from two minutes up to 20. Obviously some people can manage with shorter showers and others like to soak longer.”