I’ve got a staff shower at work with no door or curtain, and two drains. It’s in a one person bathroom, with a toilet and sink and place to hang up items.
If anyone takes a shower, there is water all over the floor for the next person…
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bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 days agoThat’s still worse than just having a door. The squeegee helps, but it’s not perfect, and I hate stepping on wet/damp floor after drying my feet. I mostly see that style in hotels or bathrooms which are too tiny to fit a proper shower. Whenever not space constrained, I’m pretty sure they’re just there to save money.
Building code in most if not all of northern Europe require bathrooms to be a proper wet room, meaning waterproofing and a drain for all parts of the bathroom. This means either having two drains, or to allow water to flow from the rest of the bathroom to the shower. Guess which alternative is easier and cheaper to do?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
diablicja@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Dude, why do you think this is the code in Northern Europe?
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I haven’t checked the code in every country, but I do know it’s code in Norway, and you see a lot of the same building techniques in the rest of northern Europe.
Why do you think it is not code?
diablicja@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m not saying it’s not code, I know it’s code. And it’s code because they’re all doing the open shower thing. Why else would they want the whole room waterproofed if not because the whole room routinely gets wet?
bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s still code if your shower has a door. It’s not unusual to stick your washing machine in the bathroom, and even if you don’t, the toilet could always overflow.
North America is really the only place I know of where bathrooms are not required to be waterproofed throughout.