The opening is too wide, the shower head should be a rainfall shower, not the Commando 450.
Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet
Submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah. Ours is a rainfall shower but the floor still gets wet.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think you’re dead-on. I had a 5’ wide doorless shower, 3’ of glass, and a rainfall showerhead and it was fine. Minimal leakage
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mine was fine till the kids grew up and wanted showers not baths. Water everywhere. Had to replace it with a sliding door
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ve built three doorless showers.
rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can wash an elephant with that thing.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 day ago
Wouldn’t a handheld showerhead be even better? That way, you could aim the showerhead directly away from the opening, somewhat reducing the incidence of splashing.
I know from experience that it’s not sufficient, but I’m certain it minimizes the damage, and honestly I consider handheld showerheads to be superior regardless
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That just looks like an unfinished shower, or a sliding door set with a missing half. Maybe you could get a little shower curtain to hang up across the hole
YoFrodo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I encountered this exact setup at a hotel recently. This seems like a hotel as well with how those bottles are attached to the wall
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Looks like a hotel. Best just to ask the front desk for extra towels.
crank0271@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Peak aesthetics
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 day ago
As a disabled person who can’t sit or stand up doorless showers are my holy grail I could finally feel fucking clean instead of relying on sponge baths.
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
No offense intended, but isn’t that why shower rooms were invented? Waterproof the walls/floor with that cheap plastic stuff, curved edges on the walls for easy cleaning, plastic curtain on rails on the ceiling for blocking most of the water. Slope it down into the floor drain. No steps or doors. Is there really no safety net to get this sort of thing installed where you live? I would happily contribute a bit to a gofundme link for this, and I’m sure there’s plenty of others who would too. Example gofundme.com/…/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-lat… . Ideally social services should have grants for this sort of thing though. There may be one you can access depending on where you live, DM me and I’d happily put in a bit of research to help you find out if this is an option.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Yeah can’t afford that either. Can’t install anything because I’m renting, can’t be anything but renting because I’m disabled.
And the legal system I live under doesn’t have any law to make landlords follow accommodations…
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the door on mine is a slider that can be moved with a feather.
eyekaytee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
damn capitalism, you could be dead or in a home somewhere! i bet you’re on welfare as well
Thoven@lemdro.id 1 day ago
What does a doorless shower offer that the same design with a door for that opening doesn’t? I would think there’s some accessible compromise that keeps the floor dry. Of course, the true holy grail would be the showers you sometimes see overseas where there’s a whole compartment built on a drain pan so the open door isn’t an inconvenience.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 day ago
need to be able to lay in the shower. Elevated threshold makes that impossible.
Cort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m guessing the difference is the threshold height for the doors. Easier to get a wheelchair over a low or non-existent threshold
Strider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well that’s just bad design. The opening is wrong so of course it’ll splash and the floor needs to be one level and tilted to the drain.
I’ve seen some really good ones that work
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Came here to say this, if don’t right they’re pretty sweet
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
we have one at work that doesn’t have any glass at all, just the plastic fixture. we installed a curtain rod because it felt strange but yeah drain in the shower basin and a decent floor grade, followed up by non-slip tile. Works a treat the whole 2 times I used it.
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Design is fine but it should be placed in the bathroom with tiles not in the midle of living room with wood floor… 😅
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m guessing (hoping) that’s not actual wood
majster@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Looks like plastic to me. Or ceramic in style of wood.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Why even have a doorless/curtainless shower? I don’t understand the appeal. How is the warmth supposed to stay in so you’re not shaving off the tips of goosebumps?
diablicja@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Shower doors are difficult to clean well, shower curtains stick to the body, space is limited (problem if you’re bigger), steam can make it harder to breathe…
Finns have figured out doorleess showers: they waterproof the whole room and equip it with a squeegee on a long stick. The floor is flat with a slight slope towards the drain. After you’re done you just wipe the floor with the squeegee (takes 10 seconds) and that’s it.
PagPag@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Japanese did it right. Essentially the same thing you’re describing and in a way that mitigates anything commenters below you blurted out.
Unfamiliar with Finnish techniques.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’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?
Cherry@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have had this style once. The shower head even reached around near the toilet, so when cleaning I could just hose the whole thing over, and then squidgee. Very convenient.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
But your towel would get damp. And your poor toothbrush is gonna taste like your brother’s shampoo!
Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I like the Japanese style ones where the entire bathroom is the shower. The floor is meant to be wet with the benefit of just being able to spray the entire bathroom down when it needs cleaning.
This one just makes no sense.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
My fav is the ones that just say fuck it and make the whole bathroom into a shower; as if people don’t keep anything else in the bathroom, like idk towels or the clothes you’re putting on after you shower…
I didn’t want a practical bathroom anyway…
fireweed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the way most Japanese showers are set up, and it works well because the shower/tub, toilet, and sink/storage area are three separate rooms.
Here is a (simplified approximation of a) common layout:
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
When the shower is literally alone in its own room, that’s a little different.
I’m talking about when the full bathroom; toilet, sink, and shower, are all in the one uninterrupted space.
Did Dave piss on the damn toilet seat again, or is it just splash from the shower? 🤷🏻
dingus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Interesting. I thought a lot of Japanese dwellings were smaller than the average American home. But I’m in the US and my entire bathroom is like between one third and one half of this image. I don’t have room for a setup like this without making the neighboring room significantlly smaller.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Oh hey it’s the bathroom from my student campus housing
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Honestly, if it was built right, that would be the perfect type of bathroom. Imagine a bathroom where all the surfaces are water proof. Then, when it’s time to clean the bathroom, you just hose everything down the floor drain!
Sunspear@piefed.social 2 days ago
My uni dormitory bathroom was like that, a very tiny off-white plastic cube with a toilet, sink and shower in no more than about 2 square meters.
It looked like crap, especially with aging year by year, but it was really easy to clean indeed. Though if everything gets wet regularly, mold also has an easier time spreading, so we needed to do that “easier” cleaning more often as a result
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Dont you just leave clothes in the spa area outside your shower room? I find it easier to dress there anyway since it got more room for movement
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
OFC, this is all on my multimillion dollar yacht after all…
miked@piefed.social 2 days ago
I love bathrooms like these. Just put the towel on a hook and you are good to go.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I don’t get this new trend of doorless showers. One of the many modern interior designs I think are bad/ugly. What’s the deal with modern minimalism? Shit is ugly.
Also, this kind of design is gonna make for cold ass showers in the winter unless you pump your heat all day and night.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
They shouldn’t. If this is new enough construction, the contractor needs to fix this.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then … then put a door on it!
Was the contractor sick? Did they get kidnapped by ICE and moved to one of their gulags? Is there a glass shortage in your area? Are you really cheap, and just didn’t want to pay for the full thing? Was Dinah Lance showering in there, and the water suddenly turned cold because someone flushed the toilet, and she screamed, shattering the glass? Did someone steal it because they needed to melt it down and reconfigure it for a place to store one of their victim’s freshly-lopped heads?
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Calm down, it looks like a hotel.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This is becoming a staple in cheap and mid-price hotels. I have to use half my towels to keep the floor from being wet.
HawtP0tat0@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Question on this… Why would you do that? Like 1 medium towel vaguely covers the wet area and its not like your probably sub-one-week stay is going to hurt anything if there is permanent water damage.
Folstar@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Doorless showers are great for the elderly, disabled, orgies, you name it- WHEN DONE RIGHT. This is far from correct. The shower spray should be spraying away from the entry, not right fucking at it. It’s puzzling because it looks like the control valve is on the near side so they routed the head all the way around to be in the wrong place? Even then, this is kind of a small space for a doorless. Also, one of those stupid corner shelves and a safety handle way the fuck in the corner. Buy a shower rod and floor length curtain to hang inside the glass wall. It’ll be real fancy.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Come to Korea! Many bathrooms are just closets with a toilet and a sink with a shower head attached and you just shower in the bathroom and soak anything that’s in there.
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I looked at an apartment once where they had a proper door-less shower. You had to, like, walk around a corner to enter it. I considered leasing that apartment just because of the shower, but yeah a proper door-less shower takes up a lot of space.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Get a spring-loaded window curtain rod, and notch the end that goes against the glass, so it doesn’t slip. Throw on a shower curtain liner (they’re cheap) and call it a day.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pretty sure that is a hotel room, nothing a customer could fix. Been to rooms like that and hated the shower.
sumsinj@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That floor is not meant to be in a bath tho
kaotic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meh. They can work if you have the space for them. This one is way to small. But I’ve seen really nice ones executed. You just need more space than most people have for the shower to occupy.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not only that, the draft coming in makes you freezing cold the entire time, forcing you to huddle under the water for most of your shower, thus wasting it and washing away the soap you’re trying to lather in.
A hotel I stayed at had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every hotel ever these days it seems. I guess it’s cheaper than replacing a curtain, or the curtain rod every jackass seems to have to yank on and bend for some reason.
HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I used to install custom shower enclosures, I would quietly cringe every time someone wanted one of these awful things. What I would usually compromise with the customer on is, size the panel so that the walk-through opening was sized correctly to accept a stock door, if they want to add one later. I’d say more than half of clients would add the door less than a year later.
AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
That is not enough clearance, the door needed to be way longer
rekabis@programming.dev 1 day ago
Sorry, are you talking about showers with broken doors, or showers without a door at all?
If the latter, how TF is that supposed to even work? Are we talking like a communal shower, where the door is too far away from the shower for water to splash out?
Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its more common in hotels than it should be
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The latter. I’ve seen them at some hotels. They’re god awful. The water splashing out isn’t even the worst part. The shower doesn’t get all hot and steamy because it has to get the entire bathroom hot. I travel for work and switched the hotel I was going to just because it had these types of showers.
halezinflames@lemmus.org 2 days ago
The door makes a world of difference
StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 2 days ago
You really need a lip to stop spills, I wanted one for mine but didn’t have the space for it… So ended up with just a normal door (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you still are in that space, one of those things you can put over cables so you won’t trip over then would make a great lip
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
Doorless showers are fine, but why is the floor in the bathroom not made of tiles, where it doesn’t matter as much when water spils? Strange decision by someone who either had no clue or didn’t care enough.
SpraynardKruger@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think it’s this style of ceramic tile. They’re the hip thing U.S. contractors choose when doing new construction or renovations.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
looks like linoleum floor. or, it should be.
banause@feddit.org 2 days ago
Supports my head
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I’ve briefly thought about it, but I would need to make the whole bathroom waterproof, and that stops the intrusive thoughts.
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
You should really at least make the floor waterproof anyway. Every old shower floor I’ve torn out has water damage right outside the shower from the years of splashes and drips.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Perpetually wet bathroom
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Had a doorless one at my last place and it was great. The shower head was pointed at the side wall vs the open door, so maybe it kept it cleaner.
Maggie@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Use a mop to dry the floor #NotDifficult
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People want them but they don’t want to admit that they don’t have enough space for one that properly works.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
They’re terrible. Everything you said is true, but I’ll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they’re miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it’s just cold.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 days ago
Hm. My bathroom is always 23°C or warmer, no matter the weather. When is colder outside, my heat pump delivers more warm water to the heating circuits. Does heating in the US work differently?
dai@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thought that heat lamps might get rid of the chill factor?
I have 3+ meter ceilings in all rooms including the bathroom, and the heat lamps are a godsend in winter.
I’m looking to renovate the bathroom over the coming years and thought that an open space shower might be a great addition but maybe we will reconsider.
I do like the Japanese prefab wet bathroom units, but not sure if they are available here, nor if the other half would approve.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Water, the anarchist.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The Conquest of Wet
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Who wants one, and why?
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I do. But a proper one. A proper one looks like something you’d see in a change room. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.
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But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. Some people are still trying to imitate that with those compact ones but it’s just not the same.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I do and I have one. The downstairs shower next to the sauna is just an entire tiled room so I don’t feel like I’m in a cramped space. I always use that one, even in the winter when it’s basically freezing down there, because I hate the cramped booth upstairs, I have very broad shoulders and can always feel like I’m going to hit the walls.
The one in the OP is the worst of both worlds though. Still cramped, but doesn’t keep water in like a regular shower booth… and it’s installed in a bathroom without a proper tiled floor…