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Loki:
Both actually.

I find the "shower curtain inwards bulging phenomenon" fascinating and annoying at the same time.

Metope:
Ughhh, my Glasgow flat has a terrible shower, it does actually have a glass panel, but the water pressure is awful. My last flat in Glasgow didn't have a shower at all, just a bathtub and a shower head (not attached to the wall) that could produce either scalding hot or ice cold water. When my flatmate's mom visited, she turned both the hot and the cold tap on at once and the boiler exploded.

The flats are also terribly insulated (single glass windows!), because the buildings are old and you're apparently not allowed to change anything due to the historic value. I guess tradition is more important than being warm,comfortable and energy efficient?

pwhodges:
Even in listed buildings secondary glazing can be used, so long as it is removable without damage.  I know, 'cos I've lived in one.

The main reason for poor showers in the UK is that our domestic water systems are still often limited to the pressure provided by a header tank in the roof space.  This is a legacy from the time that we had mains water before it was commonplace in other countries, and having a storage tank covered unreliability in the supply or even the fact that it would be turned off at night.

Metope:
I'm not sure how exactly the boiler and heating in my current flat works, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else, but we have to flick a switch in the kitchen in order to have hot water in the boiler, and also for the heaters to work. The heaters will start working right away, but if you want a shower you'll need to wait an hour. We usually don't keep the switch on since it makes our bills go through the roof and is probably crazy wasteful (I assume it keeps heating and heating instead of stopping when it's hot enough? I don't know how these things work). The whole system seems really archaic and annoyed me a lot when I first moved in, but I don't really mind now.

bainidhe_dub:
We did that while living with family before we moved to our current house - they had a natural gas water heater that they only turned on when it was needed. It was kind of a pain. In our house we have natural gas as well for the heat, but there's no switch for it here. Actually, I wouldn't know how to shut off the gas if I had to - something to look into...

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