Who: Debra Bower What: plastic top mount tub & hosepipe Where: Hamilton

Some dogs aren’t fond of a bath, but Jaz likes this one. So does her mum, Debra.

Debra explored various ways of piping hot water to her bath, including a califont (a gas-powered water heater). In the end she went for a simple, budget-friendly option, an inexpensive indoor tap adaptor from Mitre 10.

“The laundry is at the back of the house, and the outdoor bath is probably a good 20m away,” she says. “There’s no tap by the outdoor bath, so I run a hose from the laundry’s hot tap to the bath.

“You can also use sink tap click-ons,” says Debra. “You can connect either one to the tap or the water supply under the laundry.”

The window to the right is an old shower door.

“The only thing that hasn’t worked well is the neighbours cutting down a tree that gave me privacy.”