Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas (of course) that had no doors on theirs. Just an open, locker-room-style shower. And the floor was barely level enough to not flood the bathroom if the shower head was pointed directly at the corner. It was not pointing the right way when I turned it on.
I've never once chosen one hotel over another because I saw pictures and said "Oh look, this one has a doorless shower! It looks so modern and spacious."
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.
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.
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?
Most of the heat in the US is electric or gas. In areas where the temps get freezing and below outside, people don't tend to run it to get the temps into the mid 20s like that.
Does that really make a difference on the bill, are the houses so badly insulated? I always thought that style of building with wooden walls and insulation foam should make heating extremely cheap.
I do. But a proper one. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.
But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. And to be brutally honest, it is pure excess. But some people are still trying to imitate that with those crappy compact ones but it just ends up being stupid and worse than a normal shower.
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...
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
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
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?
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.
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?
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... because without a door, the water doesn't stay in the shower zone.
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.
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?
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.
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.
But seriously, doorless doesn't have to mean completely open, for example I have a glass divider wall in my bathroom, towels and toothbrushes stay safely behind the wall.
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.
I was just about to say, that looks like the wood grain patterned ceramic tiles that are often put in new construction. They're cheap and trendy(ish). Plus it comes in millennial gray, the landlord/contractor special.
My friend showers without that glass at all, and water goes all around but thats fine since tiles are all the way up to the celing.
So I imagine this makes much less mess than that.
Floor should be at angle so all the water goes to drain, dont see the need for those towels..
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...
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.
There's diversity for sure. Old, rural, traditional Japanese homes are huge, most apartments are tiny, and standard single-family homes are usually somewhere in-between. The layout pictured here is most common in houses and apartments with multiple occupants; single-person apartments (especially cheaper or more modern ones) often have a more western-style "unit" bathroom with everything shoved into one room. But there's a lot of variety; for instance some places have the sink and tub/shower together while the toilet is separate. Japanese homes (especially apartments) often only have one bathroom, so separating out the bath, toilet, and sink/vanity is actually a space-saving compromise, because one person can be using the toilet, one taking a bath, and another brushing their teeth all at the same time with relative privacy without the need for a second (or third) bathroom.
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!
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
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.
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 https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-later-years?cp_src=m . 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.
That’s completely fair!
Sorry, I underestimated the cost and the problem of getting permission as a renter. I looked into it properly and, although the plastic covering and curtain are cheap, constructing the drainage, sloped floor and waterproofing can still cost around £6,000–£8,500 here. If you’re comfortable saying which country or state you’re in, I’d still be happy to check whether there are any local grants, charities or tenant protections that might help. No need to give your precise location.
I’m sorry I’m unable to share where I live because of privacy concerns. But it’s very nice that you’re trying to help. Hope you have a nice day, cheers :)
(I have however spent a long time exploring all the possibilities and am fairly certain there isn’t much to do for now, bar moving which since I’m rent controlled would probably be impossible financially ahah. So more just a reality of being disabled and unable to work under the system than something that can be fixed at an individual level unfortunately).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And at that point, just get rid of the booth altogether and have the floor slope down towards the drainage hole. If you're doing a renovation there anyway. You can still add a shower curtain if you want, or you can even skip that if the room is big enough. It'll feel way less cramped.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
British? I swear the Brits still think it's the feudal times with their two spouts sinks, half enclosed showers, light switches outside the bathroom, and of course driving on the incorrect side of the bloody damned road! Yes I bitter much... at least the French have the food to make up for their eccentricities.
Bloody British practicing personal choice and practicability rather than arrogance. They should just get bigger houses, duel sinks in every bathroom, change the light trims with every passing trend. Pull up the bootstraps and stop suffering.
The sinks make sense for the way houses were built with that tank for the cold water in the attic. New construction shouldn't have two tanks but I used to live in a house that had this set up and once I understood how it was built I at least understood the need for it at the time.
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.
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 once had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the building collapsed after a few years due to water damage rotting/eroding away the support beams under the floor.
I have this. I just ended up installing a curtain rod and a shower curtain that I remove weekly to avoid pulling off tile via gradual pressure fusion. What a worthless fucking shower
We have two of those in our home, I installed small rings in the water tube, so that much less water comes out. Now, even our guests do not completely spray the bathroom . Added advantage: better for the climate.
They can for sure work, but as others have said you need room. When we built our house we put no tub in the master bathroom just a monster shower which fully supports our no door life.
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?
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?
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.
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 150 pts · 2d
People want doorless showers but most of them don't have the space in their bathroom that would be required to build one that works properly.
Some of them can't accept that fact and try to build one that relies entirely on the delusion that water respects boundaries.
village604@adultswim.fan · 55 pts · 2d
That's 100% a hotel, though.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2d
Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas (of course) that had no doors on theirs. Just an open, locker-room-style shower. And the floor was barely level enough to not flood the bathroom if the shower head was pointed directly at the corner. It was not pointing the right way when I turned it on.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2d
I've never once chosen one hotel over another because I saw pictures and said "Oh look, this one has a doorless shower! It looks so modern and spacious."
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 2d
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.
dai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
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.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
Well, they do, but they're giant energy hogs. Just have a door on the shower and that stuff isn't needed.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
What you saved on not installing a door you just blew threw by using a heat lamp
varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 0 pts · 2d
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?
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2d
Look at this high and mighty European with a heat pump and everything... /s
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
Most of the heat in the US is electric or gas. In areas where the temps get freezing and below outside, people don't tend to run it to get the temps into the mid 20s like that.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 3 pts · 2d
Does that really make a difference on the bill, are the houses so badly insulated? I always thought that style of building with wooden walls and insulation foam should make heating extremely cheap.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
Insulation varies, but even a well insulated house is going to get cold if it's freezing outside, and it takes energy to get them up to a toasty temp.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2d
Water, the anarchist.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2d
The Conquest of Wet
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2d
Who wants one, and why?
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2d
I do. But a proper one. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.
But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. And to be brutally honest, it is pure excess. But some people are still trying to imitate that with those crappy compact ones but it just ends up being stupid and worse than a normal shower.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
That shower is larger than my entire bathroom
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
You can save water and shower with a bunch of people in that thing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
My dream shower is about that size but also has rain ceiling from 3 stories up. No water saving tho
luipaard0011@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2d
I want a public shower someday too
0x0@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d
I prefer a pubic shower myself.
Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
That's cool but I would feel way too vulnerable in that thing. I need a door within sight so I can be prepared in case a zombie appears or something.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2d
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...
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 2d
The opening is too wide, the shower head should be a rainfall shower, not the Commando 450.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
Nah. Ours is a rainfall shower but the floor still gets wet.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
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 · 5 pts · 2d
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 pts · 2d
I've built three doorless showers.
rovingnothing29@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
You can wash an elephant with that thing.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
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 · 43 pts · 2d
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 · 33 pts · 2d
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
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 2d
I'm fairly certain it's a Marriott.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Looks like a hotel. Best just to ask the front desk for extra towels.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Peak aesthetics
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 2d
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 · 29 pts · 2d
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 · 7 pts · 2d
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.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2d
Does the Japanese one have a shower that can turn into a soaking bath? Because that's what i want.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
It has a shower head in one corner and a separate soaking bath in the other.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
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?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2d
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... because without a door, the water doesn't stay in the shower zone.
diablicja@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d
Dude, why do you think this is the code in Northern Europe?
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
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 pts · 2d
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 pts · 2d
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.
diablicja@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah, I'm saying they made it code because the doorless showers are the standard, not that putting door there would somehow invalidate the code.
I come from another European country and the law only requires waterproofing the floor + wet areas (shower, around the bath etc.)
Cherry@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d
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 pts · 2d
But your towel would get damp. And your poor toothbrush is gonna taste like your brother's shampoo!
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
Have you met the brother? That's scampoo for sure.
diablicja@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
What if I like the taste of shampoo?
But seriously, doorless doesn't have to mean completely open, for example I have a glass divider wall in my bathroom, towels and toothbrushes stay safely behind the wall.
Strider@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2d
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 pts · 2d
Came here to say this, if don’t right they’re pretty sweet
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
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 · 0 pts · 2d
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 · 3 pts · 2d
I'm guessing (hoping) that's not actual wood
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 1d
May be, but in bathroom tiles goes to the top unlike here where its just a small botom layer.
majster@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
Looks like plastic to me. Or ceramic in style of wood.
SpraynardKruger@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
I was just about to say, that looks like the wood grain patterned ceramic tiles that are often put in new construction. They're cheap and trendy(ish). Plus it comes in millennial gray, the landlord/contractor special.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-Woods-Graphite-6-in-x-24-in-Glazed-Porcelain-Wood-Look-Tile/1000477955
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 1d
They're ceramic tiles; you can tell by the grout lines. Wood and vinyl planks don't have large gaps in between like that.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I think you dropped this --> /s
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 1d
English is not my main language, sorry.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 1d
Those are ceramic tiles. You can tell by the grout lines.
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 1d
My friend showers without that glass at all, and water goes all around but thats fine since tiles are all the way up to the celing. So I imagine this makes much less mess than that. Floor should be at angle so all the water goes to drain, dont see the need for those towels..
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 2d
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 · 13 pts · 2d
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 · 9 pts · 2d
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? 🤷🏻
miked@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
Just use the bum gun to spray the seat off. And then talk to Dave.
X@piefed.world · 2 pts · 2d
I assume you mean the kind of talking that involves fists, yes?
miked@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d
That's between you and Dave. No judgement.
X@piefed.world · 2 pts · 2d
Fists. Got it.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
And lube.
miked@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
👍
dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
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.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
There's diversity for sure. Old, rural, traditional Japanese homes are huge, most apartments are tiny, and standard single-family homes are usually somewhere in-between. The layout pictured here is most common in houses and apartments with multiple occupants; single-person apartments (especially cheaper or more modern ones) often have a more western-style "unit" bathroom with everything shoved into one room. But there's a lot of variety; for instance some places have the sink and tub/shower together while the toilet is separate. Japanese homes (especially apartments) often only have one bathroom, so separating out the bath, toilet, and sink/vanity is actually a space-saving compromise, because one person can be using the toilet, one taking a bath, and another brushing their teeth all at the same time with relative privacy without the need for a second (or third) bathroom.
StillAlive@piefed.world · 4 pts · 2d
These aren't very big though. An average American might feel a bit cramped.
dingus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Hm well I honestly have a very tiny bathroom for American standards.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2d
Oh hey it's the bathroom from my student campus housing
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2d
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 · 10 pts · 2d
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 · 3 pts · 2d
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 · 7 pts · 2d
OFC, this is all on my multimillion dollar yacht after all....
dingus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Is this a serious comment
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2d
Not at all :)
dingus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Ok I was gonna ask for pics of your bathroom and spa lolol
miked@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
I love bathrooms like these. Just put the towel on a hook and you are good to go.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 2d
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 · 9 pts · 1d
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 https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-later-years?cp_src=m . 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.
Edit: UK example https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants/what-youll-get
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 1d
Yeah can’t afford that either. Can’t install anything because I’m renting, can’t be anything but renting because I’m poor.
And the legal system I live under doesn’t have any law to make landlords follow accommodations…
ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
That’s completely fair! Sorry, I underestimated the cost and the problem of getting permission as a renter. I looked into it properly and, although the plastic covering and curtain are cheap, constructing the drainage, sloped floor and waterproofing can still cost around £6,000–£8,500 here. If you’re comfortable saying which country or state you’re in, I’d still be happy to check whether there are any local grants, charities or tenant protections that might help. No need to give your precise location.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1d
I’m sorry I’m unable to share where I live because of privacy concerns. But it’s very nice that you’re trying to help. Hope you have a nice day, cheers :)
(I have however spent a long time exploring all the possibilities and am fairly certain there isn’t much to do for now, bar moving which since I’m rent controlled would probably be impossible financially ahah. So more just a reality of being disabled and unable to work under the system than something that can be fixed at an individual level unfortunately).
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
the door on mine is a slider that can be moved with a feather.
Thoven@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 1d
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 · 2 pts · 1d
need to be able to lay in the shower. Elevated threshold makes that impossible.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I'm still not following. Most non-tub showers look exactly like OP's picture except they have a sliding/swinging door.
What do you mean by elevated threshold? You mean that small ~3inch lip that is also present in OP's picture?
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Ah I see the confusion.
The walk in/doorless shower in my old appartment had no lip, and my current appartment showerr has a 30cm lip.
i assumed all walk/doorless in showers were without the lip but it seems I was wrong.
Cort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I'm guessing the difference is the threshold height for the doors. Easier to get a wheelchair over a low or non-existent threshold
eyekaytee@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
damn capitalism, you could be dead or in a home somewhere! i bet you’re on welfare as well
ceenote@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
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.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 2d
They shouldn't. If this is new enough construction, the contractor needs to fix this.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 1d
The shower-head is the issue. Doorless installs like that need a rain shower head.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
My stand still remains.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2d
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 · 7 pts · 2d
Pretty sure that is a hotel room, nothing a customer could fix. Been to rooms like that and hated the shower.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2d
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 · 2 pts · 1d
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.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
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.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2d
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 · 3 pts · 2d
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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2d
And at that point, just get rid of the booth altogether and have the floor slope down towards the drainage hole. If you're doing a renovation there anyway. You can still add a shower curtain if you want, or you can even skip that if the room is big enough. It'll feel way less cramped.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2d
I like my clawfoot tub too much to get rid of it
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Just need a layer of Ditra under the tile.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2d
Understood, it's just a bigger undertaking than I want to deal with. 100+ year old houses are a project on their own
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2d
Yes, but keep it in mind if you need to do a bathroom renovation anyway. I put a walk in in m
AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2d
That is not enough clearance, the door needed to be way longer
StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social · 5 pts · 2d
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 · 1 pts · 2d
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
Folstar@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 1d
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
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.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 2d
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 · 2 pts · 2d
I think it's this style of ceramic tile. They're the hip thing U.S. contractors choose when doing new construction or renovations.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-Woods-Graphite-6-in-x-24-in-Glazed-Porcelain-Wood-Look-Tile/1000477955
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
looks like linoleum floor. or, it should be.
banause@feddit.org · 3 pts · 2d
Supports my head
Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1d
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.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2d
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.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
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.
halezinflames@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 2d
The door makes a world of difference
kaotic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
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.
ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
British? I swear the Brits still think it's the feudal times with their two spouts sinks, half enclosed showers, light switches outside the bathroom, and of course driving on the incorrect side of the bloody damned road! Yes I bitter much... at least the French have the food to make up for their eccentricities.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 2d
You're missing the point, though. For the British, the suffering is what gives life meaning.
Cherry@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
Bloody British practicing personal choice and practicability rather than arrogance. They should just get bigger houses, duel sinks in every bathroom, change the light trims with every passing trend. Pull up the bootstraps and stop suffering.
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
The sinks make sense for the way houses were built with that tank for the cold water in the attic. New construction shouldn't have two tanks but I used to live in a house that had this set up and once I understood how it was built I at least understood the need for it at the time.
HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Perpetually wet bathroom
Psythik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
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 once had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the building collapsed after a few years due to water damage rotting/eroding away the support beams under the floor.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
I have this. I just ended up installing a curtain rod and a shower curtain that I remove weekly to avoid pulling off tile via gradual pressure fusion. What a worthless fucking shower
sumsinj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
That floor is not meant to be in a bath tho
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I never understood the reason for open showers. "Enjoy your wet bathroom."
arin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
In Asia the whole bathroom is designed to get wet with a drain in the center
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2d
It is the same in the nordics as well.
Svengarlic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I went to korea once, and I'm still dreaming of having a shower like the ones I encountered there. It's a totally different experience.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Why? It never dries in that humidity.
arin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
In Asia it's basic to have good airflow fengsui
subOrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
After showerthough
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2d
yeah, but cheaper.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
We have two of those in our home, I installed small rings in the water tube, so that much less water comes out. Now, even our guests do not completely spray the bathroom . Added advantage: better for the climate.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Imagine. just imagine, you could take that shower head in your hand and aim, instead of having it stuck to the wall. Shocking, I know.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2d
...Why would I want to do that?
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Makes it easier to rinse my toes for one.
dmtalon@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2d
They can for sure work, but as others have said you need room. When we built our house we put no tub in the master bathroom just a monster shower which fully supports our no door life.
Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2d
You should be able to get a glass half door that clips on to give you a little more protection.
You could also get a more downward shower head
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 2d
It's a hotel shower.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
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 · 5 pts · 1d
Calm down, it looks like a hotel.
majster@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d
Impractical stuff that looks nice gets some buyers. Especially in kitchen.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
yep. had to buy my own door for mine as the installers didnt even include a curtain with their package. tried one before realizing a door is a must
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I don't like doors.
Doors put up a barrier between human and nature.
Get rif of doors.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
If you cold - they cold. Let nature in
rekabis@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1d
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 · 3 pts · 1d
Its more common in hotels than it should be
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
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.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
The title also describes what happens when I'm alone with my wife.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2d
Golden
Maggie@thelemmy.club · -11 pts · 2d
Use a mop to dry the floor #NotDifficult
Mpatch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
Yes let's keep an ugly ass dank mop in the bathroom at all times.
Doom@discuss.online · 3 pts · 2d
Wait you serious? Please tell me you're not serious
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Or put a door on it. Easier