Find someone who will install a Japanese bath in your house.
This turns the whole room into a waterproof shower stall in which a tub is optionally placed. So you can just walk into that room and stand wherever you please.
Put the exhaust fan on separate switch and don’t use it while you’re in there. That’s what I’ve been doing, most Japanese baths are wired that way.
Older Japanese construction can have a small window to the outside to help with ventilation. The only reason it would be drafty is if that window is open/won't seal properly or if the fan is pulling the heat out too quickly.
I need to buy and install some of those no-slip rubber mat pieces in and around my tub. A couple years ago I slipped and cracked the back of my head, and was fortunately okay, but those events can be life-altering, or fatal.
We just turned a closet into a big shower- almot 5' x 5'. Now we walk around and have conversations in there in the morning. Also, I've had two knee surgeries this fall and it's awesome to have the extra space for a temporary bench and for my honey to step in and take my crutches.
Most American bathrooms you have a combo tub/shower. So you get the shower on the wall and use the drain in the tub. Since you have to step over the side of the tub to take a shower that's not what many people consider a "walk-in" shower. In higher-end, generally newer construction sometimes they'll have a separate walk-in shower and tub. Bathrooms with just a shower are somewhat uncommon. If you see a 3/4 bath listed in a house that's a bathroom with just a shower and no tub.
I've considered getting rid of my tub and just having a shower as I never use the tub part, but as I only have one "full" bathroom supposedly having a house with no tub hurts the resale value. I might do it anyway, but also what I have is working fine and I'm lazy.
Do people actually use the tub? I've only seen and used ones in hotels for the novelty of it. I wouldn't have use for one in my own home especially since I need to pay for the water.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 237d
Find someone who will install a Japanese bath in your house.
This turns the whole room into a waterproof shower stall in which a tub is optionally placed. So you can just walk into that room and stand wherever you please.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 22 pts · 237d
stands on the wall
early_riser@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 237d
I don’t believe in gravity
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Screw gravity!
early_riser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
*floats away\*
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
“Gravity is a law. And I obey the law.” - John Pinette
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 237d
“I know this defies the law of gravity but see, I never studied law” -Bugs Bunny
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 237d
I have one of those. Having water everywhere, especially when it's hard water, isn't as much fun as it sounds.
200ok@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
I feel like I'd be cold all the time. My shower is tiny but it gets nice and steamy-warm
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 237d
These suck in winter. Drafty.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 237d
Put the exhaust fan on separate switch and don’t use it while you’re in there. That’s what I’ve been doing, most Japanese baths are wired that way.
Older Japanese construction can have a small window to the outside to help with ventilation. The only reason it would be drafty is if that window is open/won't seal properly or if the fan is pulling the heat out too quickly.
buttnugget@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 236d
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 12 pts · 237d
I need to buy and install some of those no-slip rubber mat pieces in and around my tub. A couple years ago I slipped and cracked the back of my head, and was fortunately okay, but those events can be life-altering, or fatal.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 6 pts · 237d
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 237d
You should be dancing in as per standard protocol.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
You've activated a memory of John Leguizamo dancing in the bathtub and I'm not sure I wanted to remember that.
The Pest was a strange movie
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 237d
Many showers are also a bathtub. Step over to get in.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 237d
Wait... What kind of shower do you have now? 🤨
What kind of shower isn't walk-in? 🤔
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 17 pts · 237d
I'm guessing a step in where they have to step over the side of the bath tub
netvor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
Call me a grumpy stubborn old hacker if you want, but no thanks I prefer printf shower.
embed_me@programming.dev · 4 pts · 237d
Nothing convinced me of this platform being a tech-centric space as much as this comment
datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 237d
I crawl into mine through a doggy door
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 237d
Get one. I have one and it is so awesome.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio · 3 pts · 237d
Could build a wheelchair ramp on the side of the tub so you can just roll on in
Today@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
We just turned a closet into a big shower- almot 5' x 5'. Now we walk around and have conversations in there in the morning. Also, I've had two knee surgeries this fall and it's awesome to have the extra space for a temporary bench and for my honey to step in and take my crutches.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 236d
Once you have a walk-in shower, you'll never want to go back. Huge improvement over tubs.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 237d
Aren't all showers "walk-in"?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 237d
I assume OP’s shower is built into a tub. Which means they have to step up and over to get in.
Shower stalls are just “walk-in”, yeah. But not everyone has those.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
Or it's one of those trays with high-ish sides.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 237d
Don't most american homes not have a bathroom with shower on the wall and a drain in the floor? What's the point of having a shower stall or a tub?
Here's mine:
early_riser@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 237d
The most common is a tub with shower head
toddestan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Most American bathrooms you have a combo tub/shower. So you get the shower on the wall and use the drain in the tub. Since you have to step over the side of the tub to take a shower that's not what many people consider a "walk-in" shower. In higher-end, generally newer construction sometimes they'll have a separate walk-in shower and tub. Bathrooms with just a shower are somewhat uncommon. If you see a 3/4 bath listed in a house that's a bathroom with just a shower and no tub.
I've considered getting rid of my tub and just having a shower as I never use the tub part, but as I only have one "full" bathroom supposedly having a house with no tub hurts the resale value. I might do it anyway, but also what I have is working fine and I'm lazy.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 236d
Do people actually use the tub? I've only seen and used ones in hotels for the novelty of it. I wouldn't have use for one in my own home especially since I need to pay for the water.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 237d
No
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 237d
Baths with shower heads are not shower stalls.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 237d
No one said stalls. And any motion involving taking a step is walking.
This joke is getting away too much analysis.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
Nope.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 237d
Yup
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 236d
This is like the first thought that goes through my head when getting in a shower too!
Sometimes its just that I really want a bench.