In the last issue I told you how it is possible for economic and other purposes, today I will tell you about some free opportunities in Moscow.
Despite the fact that the time of nanotechnology reigns outside our windows, the problem of banal personal hygiene remains relevant for many Moscow residents. We are so used to using it every day hot water that we don’t even think that for someone the opportunity to take a shower is real happiness. And the idea here is not about those cases when hot water was turned off in an apartment for a week or two. All Muscovites face this situation once a year. We are talking about those people who live in conditions where they do not have the opportunity to wash themselves properly for months and even years.
The first thing that comes to mind in this case is to use the services of a public bath. At first glance, this is a completely logical solution to the problem, and one wash in such an establishment costs between 200-300 rubles. But if we take into account that a person will have to visit the bathhouse at least once a week for quite a long time, it will become clear that this pleasure is not at all cheap. What then can we say about a family of 3-4 people, for whom every trip to the bathhouse will be a serious blow to the family budget?
If you don’t have the opportunity to use the bathtub of friends or relatives, and paying for regular trips to the bathhouse is an unaffordable luxury for you, there is always the opportunity to take a hot shower completely free of charge. And even though there are very few such places in Moscow, they still exist.
Parish of the Church of the Great Martyr Irene, Patriarchal Compound in Pokrovsky
Parish address: st. Friedrich Engels, no. 38.
Every week on Mondays in the parish from 10.00 to 15.00 there are free showers, which anyone can visit. To get to the temple, you need to get to the Baumanovskaya metro station, from where you follow Bakuninskaya Street.
Another opportunity to take a free shower is provided by the Moscow Department of Social Protection. To do this, you need to visit one of the city’s disinfection stations on any day of the week from 9.00 to 17.00, except Sunday.
Dispensation station No. 2
Station address: st. Izhorskaya, 21.
To wash off the dirt and fatigue in this establishment, you need to choose the most suitable route for you:
- Take trolleybus No. 78 and follow it to the final stop. Next you will have to walk a little.
- Take bus number 92 to the “Vagonoremontnaya” stop.
- Take bus number 149 to the “Vagonoremontnaya” stop.
Dispensation station No. 4
Station address: lane Nizhny Susalny, 4-A.
You can get to this dispensation station from the Kurskaya metro station. You will need to go through the passage, which is located under the railway line, walk to Kazakova Street, and then turn left.
Dispensary station No. 6
Station address: Yaroslavskoe highway, 9.
You can get to the specified address by going to the “College” stop on the following bus numbers: 136, 172 and 244.
The only thing you should take into account is that all of the above points provide the opportunity to take a shower for free to everyone in need, including people without a fixed place of residence. So think carefully about whether you are mentally prepared for such a procedure.
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Almost every house in every major Russian city once a year visits informational occasion - shutdown hot water. Most cope with this scourge as best they can: some live as a recluse for two weeks, others look for alternative ways to wash themselves. Today’s material is dedicated to five of them.
Where can you wash if your hot water is turned off?
Own bathroom
Even though your hot water has been turned off, you still have the opportunity to wash yourself at home. To do this, you will have to use a fleet of kitchen utensils in the form of one small pan with a handle and one or two large ones. Boil water in large saucepans, dilute it with cold water in a basin until optimal temperature and water yourself using a ladle.
Advantages
- No need to go anywhere
Pitfalls
- Increased noise from rattling pans
- There is no possibility of meditation during the process
Friends Bath
One of the popular options in case of a hot water outage is to go to your friends or family to wash. This way you can strengthen old acquaintances and wash yourself in familiar home conditions. However, this option is unlikely to suit inveterate introverts whose friends do not live alone.
Advantages
- Habitual conditions
- Opportunity to see friends/family
Pitfalls
- You won’t come to visit empty-handed - you need a budget
Pool
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The pool is perhaps the only full-fledged life hack on our list. This option allows you to disguise washing as an attempt to improve your physical condition. You can swim well for your 45 minutes and then think and philosophize for a long time in the shower, even after everyone has left.
Most pools close in the summer, but the largest ones remain open. In Moscow these are Olimpiysky, Chaika, Moskvich and others.
Advantages
- The water meter is not your concern
- Opportunity to improve your physical fitness
Pitfalls
- Worth the money - from 200 rubles in Moscow
Public bath or sauna
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Baths in Moscow have almost died out during democracy, although during the season when hot water is cut off they experience an influx of visitors. Saunas are popular all year round- here they relax with friends, with girlfriends, and hold negotiations. Choose a trip to the bathhouse or sauna if you want variety. Grab your friends to drink beer with them during the process.
Advantages
- Complex relaxation - you can take a steam bath, drink beer and do other things
Pitfalls
- Costs more than a swimming pool
Lake or river
Our ancestors, who also did not have hot tap water, washed themselves in natural reservoirs. So God himself ordered us to follow this path. Choose a cleaner pond, grab some soap and a washcloth and have Neptune’s day. If you come out cleaner than you went in, then the venture was a success. All that remains is to check with an infectious disease specialist in a week or two.
Where to take a shower in Moscow? Hotel "PARKOFF" offers to use a hotel room for 2 hours to freshen up and look better.
Many people who come on a business trip to Moscow ask the question, “Where can I take a shower in Moscow?” Business travelers often use the service before an important business meeting. Although the situations are different, because in Moscow a frequent occurrence is the shutdown of hot water and the inability to take a hot shower at home, but at the PARKOFF hotel there is always a hot shower, regardless of the water shutdown schedule in the Vostochnoye Izmailovo area. Therefore, our hotel is an excellent alternative to take a shower and relax.
Hotel Parkoff 3* offers high quality service. There are 36 rooms of 5 categories: Standard, Attic, Junior Suite, Junior Suite Attic, Suite. All rooms are double. The rooms have everything you need for a pleasant stay. New and cozy rooms. Luxurious bathrooms, cable TV. waiting for you delicious food and friendly staff. Everything you need to become perfect choice for your visit to Moscow. At the Parkoff Hotel, our goal is your comfort and safety, so we strive to make your stay very comfortable and enjoyable so that we will see you again.
Advantageous location
10 minutes from the metro station (blue metro line).
The hotel is located on 11 Parkovaya Street in a residential area of Moscow, close to the city center, allowing guests easy access to major tourist attractions such as the Kremlin, Izmailovo Kremlin, Red Square, Manezhnaya Square, Bolshoi Theater, Mogila Unknown Soldier, Alexander Garden, etc. Opened at the beginning of 2015. The completely new hotel combines modern services and amenities that are sure to guarantee a pleasant stay in any room category.
Services
Room service
24/7 reception desk
Daily cleaning
Safe (check availability)
Refrigerator (check availability)
Laundry and dry cleaning services
Online booking
Cable TV
Free high-speed Internet access (Wireless Fidelity or WI-Fi) in all hotel rooms
Exclusive small closed parking
Breakfast in the room to choose from (Wide selection of food and drinks)
Separate bathroom with shower, sink and toilet
Telephone
Electronic locks
Booking hotels in other cities
Tourist information
Tickets for concerts and sports and cultural events
Confirmation and booking of air tickets and buses
There is another very important argument that makes the Parkoff Hotel a unique option among hotels in Moscow - if you make an advance reservation on the website, you will get the most best price online Hotel Parkoff in Moscow, only here.
10 ways to wash yourself without hot water
Summer in Russia is not summer without planned shutdowns of hot water. The housing office says that washing with cold water three weeks a year is simply necessary. You are itching, and at this time they are carrying out preventive measures in the boiler room.
But there’s no need to itch – Pics will tell you ten ways to live this time without conflicts with hygiene.The most obvious way
The simplest and most obvious way to wash your body in the absence of hot water is to heat it in a large saucepan or bucket. There seems to be nothing to explain here. You heat the water harder, and then dilute it in another container to make more. You sit in the bathroom and carefully water yourself with a large mug or ladle. Lathered up, washed off. Lathered up, washed off. The method is quite effective, but for some reason it evokes terrible melancholy and decay.
Technological progress
Until your electricity is turned off, you can heat water using electric kettle. It's much faster than waiting for a large pot to boil on the stove. Of course, one kettle is not enough. You'll have to put it several times. While you wash your hair with one portion, the second is ready for your body. Unless you have a Bruce Willis haircut, your head will take as much water, or even more, than the rest of your body.For the desperate
Do you remember what a boiler is? Yes, this is the thing that sometimes gives an electric shock. But, if it is working properly, then of course there is no danger. The main thing is to triple check. There are large, powerful boilers that our ancestors used to boil water in buckets. You lower such a device into a filled bath and wait until the water warms up to the desired temperature. After that, you climb into it and rinse yourself. We recommend pouring water for rinsing into a saucepan or bucket in advance. Otherwise, such washing will not be of much use.
Lifehack for those who have long hair To save water when washing long hair, wash the hair at the roots and, in fact, the head itself with warm water, and wash the rest of the hair under the tap. The hair doesn't care about the cold, it's just the skull that's freezing.
Like an astronaut
Have you ever wondered how astronauts wash themselves in orbit? The answer is simple, they don't wash. They just haven’t figured out how to do it in zero gravity yet. They are wiped with special wet wipes. In one pack - for soaping, in the second - for wiping. You can do the same. A pack of wet wipes is enough for the whole body. Or wet a towel with warm water (take it in a kettle) and dry yourself as much as you like.Like an athlete
Have you been to the fitness club or swimming pool lately? Summer is the time to correct your figure. Moreover, in such establishments there is always a shower. Hooray! You can put yourself in order in every sense of the word. Continuing the logical series, you can go to visit your parents or friends. Don’t forget to briefly check with them about the hot water at the tap. If people are good, they will not refuse you a bath.
Emergency Rescue
The water was turned off unexpectedly as always. This means it’s time to take emergency measures. Go to the hardware store and buy flow heater. This is such a thing that is put on a faucet and connected to the network. You turn on the water, then the heater and enjoy a thin stream of warm water. You won’t be able to wash yourself with pleasure under such a stream, but, nevertheless, in the absence of fish and cancer - fish. If you know that in the summer you cannot avoid turning off the water, then install a large flow-through heater in advance. This is a 40-80 liter tank. It is usually hung in the bathroom or carefully embedded in a shaft with pipes in the toilet. Great stuff! With it you can easily wash yourself as usual, without looking at the time and without fear that you will have to rinse under cold water.For the desperate
There is such a thing called “dry shampoo”. It is a spray that needs to be sprayed onto dirty hair. Then you massage your head and smear it all over your hair. Then carefully comb your hair with a fine comb. In theory, they should look better now. “Dry shampoo” removes oil from the hair and loose flakes from the scalp. In fact, the cleaner your head is before you start “washing,” the better the result will be, because this product works so-so.
For the inventive
You have houses washing machine? So, with its help you can not only wash your clothes, but also successfully heat water. You choose the fastest mode with boiling, but do not add laundry and powder. You direct the drain into a previously plugged bathtub. The machine will take water, heat it, simulate washing and pour it into the bathtub. This is what people's ingenuity means. We have already talked about what to do with the water in the bath. And don't worry about its quality. It will be as clean as the tap.Escape
If you are disgusted by all these schemes for obtaining hot water in your apartment, then you can simply go on vacation during the shutdown. Find out from the housing office in advance when they are planning Operation Dirty Harry and get yourself tickets for that time. Go to a place where all the amenities and relaxation from the everyday hustle and bustle will await you. You will rest, and at the same time wash yourself.Want to receive one interesting unread article per day?
