Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

I think I put a photo of the ensuite shower in the other place- it has wall on two sides, glass wall on the 3rd, no tray an no door as the whole floor is watertight so lots of room to do what you need to (DW and I checked 2 could shower at once) and the radiator towel rail is right there for when you have finish although the towels can get damp if you get too over enthusiastic with the showering...

PasturesNew wrote: »

I did love the corner enclosures.... room to stand in the shower and towel off before stepping out.

Something like this, so the doors are in the middle and slide back on the inside of the enclosure: http://blog.victorianplumbing.co.uk/Images/rio-900.jpg

I've never used/seen a double shower in real life.... just on property programmes on the telly.

I am a little the wrong side of ideal weight, with a clothes size range of 8-12 ... and yet I've encountered showers with doors so small I struggle to get in/out. The worst was in some B&B some years back, the two sliding doors of the tiny enclosure met at a corner .... and even with them both fully open I could only get in through the gap sideways.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I think I put a photo of the ensuite shower in the other place-

I don't go to the other place... when I log in I get literally '000s of spam posts to "approve/delete" - and it's deathly slow .... there's no easy way to do it, except 20 at a time and takes ages.....

michaels wrote: »

it has wall on two sides, glass wall on the 3rd, no tray an no door as the whole floor is watertight so lots of room to do what you need to (DW and I checked 2 could shower at once) and the radiator towel rail is right there for when you have finish although the towels can get damp if you get too over enthusiastic with the showering...

But, when you come in from the beach and your crocs are full of sand, where do you sit to wash your feet/shoes in one go in nice soapy water??? Some things you can't beat a bath for.

PasturesNew

Just sitting here thinking of the old ... and that age-old argument about paying for care... and I got to thinking, old people are the only ones who are means tested and have to pay for their care. Prisoners don't get a bill for accommodation/food/entertainment/education; people in hospital even if they 'chose' to be there because they got drunk/in a fight, or chose to have babies.... kids aren't billed for school, there's no charge for ante-natal and pre-natal care and polititians jet off for £1000/night hotels and posh food.... so why should old people be forced to pay when they are unable to live alone/at home, or to have help with things they need? If it's not a lifestyle choice, but a necessity as living alone they'd probably be dead withing 2 days due to all sorts of incapabilities.

I don't really want an answer/discussion, it's just that these other situations occurred to me where people are getting stuff for free without a thought for cost entering into the equation.

Nobody chooses old age, it's done to you.

My poor old ... never had any nice things, or social life, or new clothes.... and all the "saving for your old age" that they did religiously is being shovelled off at a rapid rate without it having been enjoyed.

LydiaJ

I like showers for every day (faster) and a bath occasionally when I've got plenty of time and happen to feel in the mood.

My last (rented) house had a family bathroom with a bath & shower over - the annoying sort where you make the shower work by setting the bath taps going and then pulling the thing up to divert the water to the shower head. I don't like them - I never manage to control the temperature adequately. The house also had an ensuite with a shower (a reasonably decent one, not a power shower but fed from the mains pressure hot water system) in an unremarkable cubicle and tray. I was happy with that - not snazzy, but did the job well according to my criteria.

This house has a family bathroom with bath & crummy electric shower over, and an ensuite with bath & decent shower over. However, the family bathroom currently has a functioning radiator, and the ensuite does not. So I use the family bathroom if I want to have a bath in a nice warm room, and the ensuite if I want to have a shower in a decent shower - and leave my towel on the radiator in my bedroom, within reach of the door of the ensuite.

I don't like showers with fixed shower heads - either overhead or high up on the wall - but am fine as long as there's a shower head you can move up and down to different heights, and then take off the wall and move about. I've never been in one that had both overhead and movable in the way michaels describes, but I suspect they'd be wasted on me and I'd only actually use the movable bit. I usually spend most of my time in there with the shower head at face height and at an angle - so the water is hitting me at shoulder height - and only put the shower head up high for the bit where I'm washing my hair.

I don't like spray patterns that shoot the water out in a ring, so there's a gap in the middle, and I never use the setting that's really strong and concentrated on a tiny area, but otherwise I've never given much thought to the size of the shower head. I've never used one of those big wide ones, but maybe I should investigate those.

What I really want at this stage of the decision process is a bathroom showroom where you can go and turn the water on and stick your hand in the spray of each of these shower heads, and see what they feel like. The normal way that showers are sold on the basis of what they look like seems all wrong to me - like a clothes shop that won't let you try anything on, and says that if you buy any clothes you're only able to return them if you haven't tried them on at home either.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Even by our normally eccentric standards on the "debate" board, the lunatics have properly taken over the asylum recently....

Board is sadly devoid of anything resembling debate.

michaels

I wonder if that may be because things are so uncertain nobody really has a clue how they will pan out and each little piece of 'evidence' is far from conclusive so instead opinions become entrenched through the reiteration of the same old debates?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Even by our normally eccentric standards on the "debate" board, the lunatics have properly taken over the asylum recently....

Board is sadly devoid of anything resembling debate.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Even by our normally eccentric standards on the "debate" board, the lunatics have properly taken over the asylum recently....

Board is sadly devoid of anything resembling debate.

Certainly feels that way. There's plenty of posters on there who've maybe got a synapse missing and are happy to have a conversation at you.

They've been calling their prejudices their thoughts for so long they're starting to believe it themselves. :eek:

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Did you post pics as I skimmed a chunk of thread so may have missed them? Sounds fab.

No, I can't work out how to do it. The free sharing websites don't seem to locate anything on my iPad and the answer seems to be Flickr, which I cannot use as it relies on an email log in I have problems with for technophobic reasons....I have one, but can't remember log in, it won't let me in, nor will it let me sign up again as I already exist.:o

purch

Board is sadly devoid of anything resembling debate

You should start some threads.

That always sparks adult debating :eek:

purch

I've never seen/been in a posh shower

HID's sister used to have a brilliant shower. It was in the cubby hole that was once the airing cupboard, and you just opened the door, then the shower door and stepped in (no good for the claustrophobic :eek:) The shower was so powerful it felt like someone was punching you !!!

Ever since they spent gazillions "remodelling" (it would have been cheaper to knock the place down and build a new one) they have a snazzy wet room for guests, which is a concept I've never taken to because you can never be certain what it is you are stepping in :eek: