Bricor Showerhead Green - Our Daily Green

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Bricor Showerhead Green


seinfeld showerhead episode
first aired on February 15, 1996
The low flow shower-head industry suffers from old perceptions, in part based on the famous Seinfeld episode, The Showerhead. During that episode, Jerry, Kramer and Newman are in misery after their building replaced all their shower-heads with low-flow heads, leading them to buy shower-heads on the black market.

Since that episode first was broadcast over 15 years ago, there have been some fabulous innovations with low-flow plumbing products, especially from Bricor Analytical which offers a:
... patented VACUUM Flow Restriction Technology to significantly reduces water, gas and electrical consumption while simultaneously improving the quality of the shower stream. How do our shower heads work? Water enters our patented VACUUM flow "booster" valve where it is aerated and compacted under pressure. Due to the intense force of the vacuum chamber, the aerated water "explodes" as it exits the shower head, creating a powerful shower stream at a very low flow rate (1.5 gallons per minute or less).
Fortunately, Bricor's product eliminates the need for consumers to resort to illegal activity to get a powerful, yet water conserving shower. Our Daily Green was introduced to Bricor last year when they sponsored a giveaway. Since then, we have used their product in our master bath shower. When we were approached again this year to conduct another review and giveaway, we were thrilled!

bricor low flow
Low Flow hand held Bricor Showerhead
We chose the low flow hand held showerhead, which comes in a chrome finish and has two shower settings. According to Bricor, this showerhead  has the lowest flow rate in the industry for a hand held shower head at only 1.125 gpm. Honestly, based on usage, we'd never guess it was a low flow head at all. The pressure is amazing for a shower-head that has less than half the federally mandated 2.5 gallons per minute flow.

our daily green showerhead
Bricor Showerheads
Bricor has generously agreed to partner with Our Daily Green to give one of our lucky readers a hand held low flow shower-head, a retail value of $89.99. Independent tests show that Bricor's shower-heads will pay for themselves in water and utility savings in 150 days.

To enter our drawing, share your low flow story in the comments section below. 
For additional entries:


The Giveaway GalleryPlease leave a separate comment for each action as the drawing will be randomly chosen by comment number. We reserve the right to verify each action and delete any invalid entries. Entries accepted until December 11, midnight EST. The winner will be announced on Our Daily Green's December 12th post.
WE HAVE A WINNER! 


Nola727, you have until December 14th to contact me with your shipping information. I will draw another winner if I've not heard from you by then. kim@writeonenterprises.com
Thank you everyone for participating!


18 comments :

Chris said...

I'm always a little cynical about products like this as to how they create pressure without creating back pressure on the house system as a whole. How does it output a pressure that's greater than the household pressure behind it without creating expansion in the system that can potentially lead other needs like expansion tanks at water heaters if they're not already in place.
When low flow toilets first hit the market they were a complete nightmare and actually needed flushed more than once a great deal of the times thus negating any savings they professed.

Michelle H said...

We live in an older house that just sucks energy. I'm always looking for ways to make it more efficient and this showerhead gives me an idea I've never had before.

Angel said...

We live in an apartment, and you know how water pressure can be sometimes in these old buildings. I'm always so hesitant to choose a low-flow head. I lived in one apartment with a low flow that it seemed like someone could've spit and given me a better shower. :(

bcbeaveratheart said...

I live on a mountain, where we have well water...and this old shack we bought on the mountain had the worlds smallest water tank. I can have at the most a 4.5 minute shower...which is good, cause we are conserving water and there is a nob we can turn on and off when we are lathering up so we don't waste water when lathering..so this shower head would be GREAT!
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Courtney said...

Saving water with a family of 5 is hard to do, but I'd love something like this to HELP!! :)

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Anonymous said...

My shower head has not been replaced in forever, and there isn't a single setting on it that works for me!

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@nola727 said...

Thanks for the chance to win. Conserving water is especially important to me--living in a drought in texas. Doing my best to conserve water by saving rainwater and using it for plant watering.

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