The boring answer is that its for reaching the shower controls for adjusting the temperature and pressure without the need to stand under the shower. Mostly for people with disabilites or people who needs aides.
I don't see how this changes anything. My guess is someone in a wheel chair would use the hand held showerhead more often, which means while maneuvering the shower, it would be possible to accidently spray right out that hole and soak the bathroom.
People who are in wheelchairs still shower the same amount. Depending on the nature of their impairment they may be able to stand long enough to shower, or they may climb into the tub and have a shower bench, or they may have an assistant who helps them shower. It’s pretty ableist to assume that someone with a mobility impairment isn’t able to maintain their hygiene.
It won't let out a ton since the water is spraying in an arc that misses it. There will be some water that splashes out after hitting you or the shower walls, but it's not going to soak the floors or anything.
That's a different issue since water pools around the caulk lines.
I've stayed in hotels that didn't even have glass for the first foot or so of the shower and it was a non-issue, although I definitely expected it to be.
I don't doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you'd have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can't get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.
I found this which confirms it's for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn't have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.
That's even more confusing, why not forego the shower glass entirely and just have a shower curtain instead?
Yes I know it's likely retrofitted, but I won't pass a chance to say that shower curtains are superior. Shower glass looks glossy in brochures, but everyone IRL has a sad squeegee hanging from it.
Even the cheapest shower curtains have extra sewn in threads at the bottom which weigh them down and prevent clinging.
Mould isn't an issue if you're airing out the bathroom properly, and washing the curtains every week or so.
Glass is also prone to mould as well, but you can't just throw out it. The tracks they require are particularly difficult to keep clean and give me the heeby jeebies.
Washing curtains is infinitely easier than maintaining and cleaning the glass tracks.
The hole is there to allow water to pass through the shower wall and accrue on the floor surface around the toilet, enhancing the sock experience of toiletgoers.
Wait. This is a totally alien thought to my entire life experience. I suppose you don’t pull it back do you? For whatever reason I think that’s how I imagined it? Honestly, I don’t think I have ever imagined it to be fair.
Pretty straightforward. Take a nasty shit and warm up the shower while you wipe. Alternatively, warm up the shower after realizing you're out of shit tickets.
My first thought was to flush the toilet whenever you needed warmer water. I used to rent an apartment where I had to turn on cold water in the sink to get hot enough water in the shower.
that's what I thought at first, but there is actually a way that it makes sense
you have hot water and cold water with a certain amount of pressure behind them feeding your apmt. if you turn the shower to full hot, the valve is still going to mix it with cold water. however if you take the cold water out at the sink prior to the shower feed, it's not going to be replaced by more cold water if the system doesn't have enough supply to keep up with it. so your shower water is being mixed with less cold water than before, resulting in a hotter mixed stream from the shower head
and like maybe there's other things going on and it's not the same in every situation and all that, but you can test this yourself and get this result, so..
Do you not have a temperature dial on your shower that lets you control this directly? If I feel like I need to burn my skin off I can turn the temperature all the way up and have 100% hot water.
Looks like they installed it backwards, otherwise you'd be able to piss right into the toilet from the shower... because some people think it's gross to wee in the shower.
It never bothered me, but then I had to replace the 2nd floor bathroom junction from the ceiling below, and saw that the tub, sink, and toilet all join and go into the same pipe. It doesn't matter which drain it goes into, it's all the same pipe.
Might be handy info at a big party. Pee wherever you want, just keep it off the floor.
Sure it all leaves through the same pipe, but it’s not like you stand in the toilet, no one ever lays down and soaks in the toilet, most of us don’t put children in the toilet.
It's pee, not glue, it washes right off. Don't you shower with soap and water? Wouldn't that washes the pee down the drain, every single time you use it? It's basically the same method you use in the dishwasher to clean the utensils you EAT with.
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MrFinnbean@lemmy.world · 163 pts · 230d
The boring answer is that its for reaching the shower controls for adjusting the temperature and pressure without the need to stand under the shower. Mostly for people with disabilites or people who needs aides.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 230d
Wouldn't this also let water out and on to the floor? Surely a sliding or hinged opening couldn't have been that hard to implement
zurohki@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 230d
Or even just a piece of shower curtain glued along the top of the hole.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 230d
It's also in a very terrible spot for that purpose. It would be very awkward to reach the controls from that angle and where the toilet is at.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 230d
Well obviously you are supposed to straddle the toilet and face the wall to get a better reach
Johanno@feddit.org · 2 pts · 230d
Assuming you are bound to a wheelchair you probably won't shower normally anyway
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
I don't see how this changes anything. My guess is someone in a wheel chair would use the hand held showerhead more often, which means while maneuvering the shower, it would be possible to accidently spray right out that hole and soak the bathroom.
Johanno@feddit.org · 2 pts · 230d
It would reduce the amount of water flying against the glass. But yes the mess will be the same
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · -4 pts · 230d
People who are in wheelchairs still shower the same amount. Depending on the nature of their impairment they may be able to stand long enough to shower, or they may climb into the tub and have a shower bench, or they may have an assistant who helps them shower. It’s pretty ableist to assume that someone with a mobility impairment isn’t able to maintain their hygiene.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
They didn’t say they shower less, they said they may not shower normally.
Showering with assistance, using a shower bench: these are not the ways people shower normally. That does not imply that these methods are unhygienic.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 230d
It won't let out a ton since the water is spraying in an arc that misses it. There will be some water that splashes out after hitting you or the shower walls, but it's not going to soak the floors or anything.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 230d
I doubt it won't make much of a mess. My shower had a few leaky spots of caulking and that was enough to ruin the floors.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 230d
That's a different issue since water pools around the caulk lines.
I've stayed in hotels that didn't even have glass for the first foot or so of the shower and it was a non-issue, although I definitely expected it to be.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 230d
I don't doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you'd have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can't get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 230d
I found this which confirms it's for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn't have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.
4am@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 230d
shut up prude, we all know it’s a glory hole for elephants
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 8 pts · 230d
It just occurred to me that it's not a sliding door, so this is plausible.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 229d
mfw i realize that shower is a chemistry reactor
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 230d
this is totally incorrect. its actual purpose is for the bathing wife to be able to give hand to her husband while he's dumping a load
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
Or the other way. She can pleasure the husband while he's showering and she is on the John
Meron35@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
That's even more confusing, why not forego the shower glass entirely and just have a shower curtain instead?
Yes I know it's likely retrofitted, but I won't pass a chance to say that shower curtains are superior. Shower glass looks glossy in brochures, but everyone IRL has a sad squeegee hanging from it.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 230d
Shower curtains cling to your body while you shower and get moldy
Meron35@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
Even the cheapest shower curtains have extra sewn in threads at the bottom which weigh them down and prevent clinging.
Mould isn't an issue if you're airing out the bathroom properly, and washing the curtains every week or so.
Glass is also prone to mould as well, but you can't just throw out it. The tracks they require are particularly difficult to keep clean and give me the heeby jeebies.
Washing curtains is infinitely easier than maintaining and cleaning the glass tracks.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 229d
Need to get a better shower curtain then! Or swap the rod for a curved one, or both
alternategait@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
Deestan@lemmy.world · 142 pts · 230d
The hole is there to allow water to pass through the shower wall and accrue on the floor surface around the toilet, enhancing the sock experience of toiletgoers.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 230d
isn't that what the shaggy pee mat in front of the toilet is for?
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 3 pts · 230d
cornshark@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
I'm not peeing on the floor, I'm peeing on the shaggy pee mat. Hence the name
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 11 pts · 230d
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 229d
I don't understand your question. You're asking how I suck at aiming if I am peeing on the floor, but I never said I was missing the pee mat.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 1 pts · 229d
Do you have a penis? The stream can start off rather unpredictably. Especially in the morning, or post-coitus.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 2 pts · 229d
Hathaway@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 229d
Wait. This is a totally alien thought to my entire life experience. I suppose you don’t pull it back do you? For whatever reason I think that’s how I imagined it? Honestly, I don’t think I have ever imagined it to be fair.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 229d
I do pull it back, idk about the other guys wiener but for me the skin makes for a more unpredictable stream.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 229d
ah that's it then. All this time I was pulling the other guy's
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 1 pts · 229d
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 229d
Just wait till you learn how cold shrinkage affects the peeing experience for un-cut folks! Let's just say it doesn't all shrink uniformly...
echodot@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 230d
It's not like the direction it's pointed and the direction it goes have any bearing on each other.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 0 pts · 230d
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 230d
mech@feddit.org · 34 pts · 230d
I hate when that happens and you have to lick it all up before the dog beats you to it.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 229d
What a terrible day to have eyes.
Trihilis@ani.social · 4 pts · 229d
I miss this meme
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 230d
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 230d
yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 230d
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 230d
I was thinking of that one but I don't know his name.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 18 pts · 230d
Gowron
toynbee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 230d
Star Trek glory guy.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 230d
It‘s for wetting your hand while on the toilet. This enables you to wipe and clean your ass with your wet hand.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 33 pts · 230d
The manual bidet
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 230d
You jest but the manual method was all we had in 2013 Konya.
cornshark@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 230d
Lol why do you need the shower for that? The toilet already has water and it's right there.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 230d
Uhh…hmm
What has happened to the internet today. Why is it like this
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 230d
At that rate, just get in the damn shower
ohlaph@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
No.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 55 pts · 230d
I thought it was to start the shower without getting the cold or hot water all over you.
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 230d
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 230d
Its so you can poop in the shower and toss it in the toilet. Stomping it down clogs the drain
Rumo161@feddit.org · 13 pts · 230d
"Wafflestomp it down the drain" I think about that post weekly, still. I dont think im ok
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 230d
Maybe poop in the shower less :)
ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 229d
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 230d
Distance and accuracy training.
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 230d
Logical
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 230d
Pretty straightforward. Take a nasty shit and warm up the shower while you wipe. Alternatively, warm up the shower after realizing you're out of shit tickets.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 230d
echodot@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 230d
It's so you can get a nice wet spot on the floor for that maximum bathroom aesthetic.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 230d
My first thought was to flush the toilet whenever you needed warmer water. I used to rent an apartment where I had to turn on cold water in the sink to get hot enough water in the shower.
4am@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 230d
This doesn’t even make sense from a plumbing perspective
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 230d
that's what I thought at first, but there is actually a way that it makes sense
you have hot water and cold water with a certain amount of pressure behind them feeding your apmt. if you turn the shower to full hot, the valve is still going to mix it with cold water. however if you take the cold water out at the sink prior to the shower feed, it's not going to be replaced by more cold water if the system doesn't have enough supply to keep up with it. so your shower water is being mixed with less cold water than before, resulting in a hotter mixed stream from the shower head
and like maybe there's other things going on and it's not the same in every situation and all that, but you can test this yourself and get this result, so..
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 230d
Do you not have a temperature dial on your shower that lets you control this directly? If I feel like I need to burn my skin off I can turn the temperature all the way up and have 100% hot water.
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 230d
Check your hot shower privilege
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 230d
My golden shower offers constant warm temperature, but twisting the knobs does nothing.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 229d
must be nice to have such a hot water supply with high pressure
not everybody has that
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 230d
I don't know what world you are from but my showers have also gone hot when the toilet is flushed
Feyd@programming.dev · 14 pts · 230d
It's for illicit hand holding
observes_depths@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 230d
Looks like they installed it backwards, otherwise you'd be able to piss right into the toilet from the shower... because some people think it's gross to wee in the shower.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 230d
For the truly enlightened it allows you to piss into the shower while standing on the toilet.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 230d
It never bothered me, but then I had to replace the 2nd floor bathroom junction from the ceiling below, and saw that the tub, sink, and toilet all join and go into the same pipe. It doesn't matter which drain it goes into, it's all the same pipe.
Might be handy info at a big party. Pee wherever you want, just keep it off the floor.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
Sure it all leaves through the same pipe, but it’s not like you stand in the toilet, no one ever lays down and soaks in the toilet, most of us don’t put children in the toilet.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 230d
Most people wash their tubs regularly. A little pee is going to wash right away.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
Um... Define "regularly"
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 229d
Every time you use it.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
Most people definitely don't clean their shower/tub every time they use it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 229d
Water and soap coats the surfaces, rinses off and goes down the drain. It's washed good enough for pee.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
Weekly? Every couple weeks? So you’re good standing in pee for a couple weeks, or you expect no one else to take a shower for a couple weeks?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 229d
It's pee, not glue, it washes right off. Don't you shower with soap and water? Wouldn't that washes the pee down the drain, every single time you use it? It's basically the same method you use in the dishwasher to clean the utensils you EAT with.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
My dishwasher uses high speed jets of 160° water to scour and sanitize.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 229d
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 230d
...as a women?
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 230d
Women can too, yes
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 230d
As a men 🙏
SirBucksworth@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 230d
When you have to poop while showering you can easily dispose of it without clogging the drain 👩🔬
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 229d
What's wrong with a good ol' fashioned wafflestomp?
simsalabim@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 229d
comador@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
Also useful for throwing the hair clots into the toilet.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 230d
Honesty that would make a lot of sense
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 230d
Its so you can pass snacks back and forth between the toilet and shower
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 229d
Port hole for petting a very needy kitty with attachment anxiety.
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Fuck, wait! I meant an actual cat!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
You're a dude. It's a hole.
Put your dick in it.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 230d
Doesn’t the screen being transparent rather spoil the effect?
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
Where can I get this door?
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
ayo