No shower curtains in home bathrooms?

[Pein_11]

@louisfriend

Is everyone drunk when they take a shower, or are they chasing a cat around the bathroom with the shower head? Try pointing the water in the opposite direction of what you want to keep dry (i.e. an opposite wall) when you’re showering. Wearing socks to go in the bathroom? :loco: It’s ok to have slippers just for the bathroom, or a rug outside of the door to wipe your slippers off if the bathroom floor is still wet. Come on people. I find being able to spray water where you want comes in handy, especially for spraying off whiskers from my beard trimmer that get all over the sink and and other places, or even the times when I miss the toilet. Placing a fan towards the inside of the bathroom also helps if you’re having issues with it drying out

I had bathroom only slippers. The floor was also rubberized so it dried fairly quickly. These kind of wash rooms are for getting in, shower and get out, not spend that much time in as in the west. Another example of function > form.

[Novaspes]

Important update on the subject: if you have a floor drain in your bathroom and it, for some reason, doesn’t get used (e.g. if you installed a shower box connected to a different drain pipe) make sure to pour some water down it once in a while. If you don’t do it, the water traps in the pipe might dry up and you can get sewer vapors or toilet vapors (from other apartments) in your house. A recent WHO report on the early spread of SARS suggests this is exactly how one of the early carriers managed to infect his whole apt building! Also, make sure to seal all unused drains, like the ones on balconies that were converted to enclosed verandas. Those too can spew sewer vapors all around your apartment.

O_o

[tommy525]

They got these mops with super sqeegee sponge (made in germanY) . Works wonders on those wet floors.

[elburro]

@Novaspes

Important update on the subject: if you have a floor drain in your bathroom and it, for some reason, doesn’t get used (e.g. if you installed a shower box connected to a different drain pipe) make sure to pour some water down it once in a while. If you don’t do it, the water traps in the pipe might dry up and you can get sewer vapors or toilet vapors (from other apartments) in your house. A recent WHO report on the early spread of SARS suggests this is exactly how one of the early carriers managed to infect his whole apt building! Also, make sure to seal all unused drains, like the ones on balconies that were converted to enclosed verandas. Those too can spew sewer vapors all around your apartment.O_o

Aha! That explains the disgusting smell from my kitchen floor drain. I sealed it, but now I wonder if I should open the seal and pour some water into it?

[Novaspes]

@elburro

[quote=“Novaspes”]Important update on the subject: if you have a floor drain in your bathroom and it, for some reason, doesn’t get used (e.g. if you installed a shower box connected to a different drain pipe) make sure to pour some water down it once in a while. If you don’t do it, the water traps in the pipe might dry up and you can get sewer vapors or toilet vapors (from other apartments) in your house. A recent WHO report on the early spread of SARS suggests this is exactly how one of the early carriers managed to infect his whole apt building! Also, make sure to seal all unused drains, like the ones on balconies that were converted to enclosed verandas. Those too can spew sewer vapors all around your apartment.O_o

Aha! That explains the disgusting smell from my kitchen floor drain. I sealed it, but now I wonder if I should open the seal and pour some water into it?[/quote]

I think the seal is good enough.

[Indiana]

I got tired of having to wash my shower curtains all of the time while in Taiwan because of the mold, so we got sliding glass doors installed for each shower. They worked a charm. We liked them so much that we installed something similar for our showers here in the UAE. They are easy to keep clean and very attractive as well.

[Lo_Pan]

@Novaspes

Important update on the subject: if you have a floor drain in your bathroom and it, for some reason, doesn’t get used (e.g. if you installed a shower box connected to a different drain pipe) make sure to pour some water down it once in a while. If you don’t do it, the water traps in the pipe might dry up and you can get sewer vapors or toilet vapors (from other apartments) in your house. A recent WHO report on the early spread of SARS suggests this is exactly how one of the early carriers managed to infect his whole apt building!

Good advice! fortunately many of the buildings that I have seen in Taipei seem to be pretty good about keeping their black-water lines (toilet) and grey-water lines (shower/sink drains etc) seperated within the bldg.

I was shocked on my last visit to Beijing… New, reasonably nice apartment building, standing in a friend’s bathroom, I could see exposed pipes above my head from the toilet, shower and sink from the above apartment going directly into the same pipe on the wall… no u-joints/watertraps, no seperation… no nothing… just two interconnected 4" pipes that had 25 floors worth of sewage running past and nothing to block the smell, viruses or bacteria from coming right back through those shower and sink drains!