Yep, I sure am. Nearly every time too.
Our hot water is opposite what others have said - it seems there is very little during the day, but plenty all night. Steaming hot at 2am can be had, 2pm is a little on the chilly side.
(Thankfully, downstairs neighbors care more about kitchen noise than bathroom noise, as our kitchen is right above their bedroom.)
I speak from experience when I say that even baths aren't a problem. And I live in a flat where the walls are made of cardboard and my neighbour told me that I should be careful about closing my cupboards at night for they were too loud when I moved in.
My introduction to the more negative aspects of Swiss culture was that I took baths when I got in from work at night (11pm) and got a letter from the landlord that she'd had a complaint (two apartment building, so easy to work out who it was) and I was to stop bathing at night. I could, however take a shower. I didn't realise that there were rules against taking a bath at night and I was also pretty nonplussed that the neighbour didn't just come and tell me there was a problem!
To take a full bath deep at night is generally regarded as "Ruhestörung" Up to now I always was with people who talked directly to each other
Of course, you do mean that in the flat that you live in at the moment, with the neighbours which you have at the moment, with the plumbing you have at the moment you haven't yet had problems.
It depends on how light a sleep your neighbours have, what time they have to get up in the morning and how much noise running the water makes in the neighbours flat (and how many times the person showering or bathing hits something which resounds through the whole house...) whether they are likely to be bothered or not.
Seems that by law one cannot actually forbid showering late in the evening but life can be made quite unpleasant if several parties in the house are really disturbed by it and, contrary to the opinion of many folk these days, one can actually survive without showering or bathing at eleven at night. It doesn't necessarily mean one stinks of stale sweat either.
when I arrived in Switzerland, I was too scared to take a pee after 10pm to avoid flushing.
it was always a dilema- piss my pants now and go to sleep, or flush and piss my pants again in front of the policeman
Yes, I fully appreciate that now, and I can actually understand how disturbing it would be, but at the time I was new here and had come from a country where they don't have those rules, and actually had never experienced apartment living until I moved here. The other tenants were aware of my newness and up to that point I thought we'd had a friendly relationship.
Actually that summer I was working in a call centre where the walls were glass and so it was like working in an oven. I went to work in the middle of the afternoon, and by the time I'd been there for 5 minutes was bathed in sweat. And it did stink, despite whatever deodorant I tried. (Also, either the neighbours in question actually didn't go to bed until well after 11pm most night or they left all the lights in the apartment on while they were sleeping)
Thats a hangover from the Zürich of the last century! Shower when you want!!