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Renting - No working shower in property

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  • [Deleted User]
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    So was I. Nothing wrong with flannel washing. We do generally have washing machines and hopefully the ability to afford more than one wash cloth.
  • AdrianC
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    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    Omg flannel washing in 2019. There is so much wrong with that. I was born in the sixties. My parents were working class - dad a coal miner. The only time I had a flannel wash was in a tent on holiday. Really it's not very hygienic.
    I'm younger than you, born in the 70s. Showers were more-or-less unknown until I went to Uni in the late 80s - baths were the norm (and my mother still does that), and definitely not every day. Even in the uni halls of residence, there were no ensuites, just cubicles with bogs, cubicles with sinks, cubicles with bathtubs at the end of the floors.

    For a shower, we put these on the bath taps...
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aqualona-41031-Connection-Function-Mountable/dp/B0156Q726C
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  • davidmcn
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    For a shower, we put these on the bath taps...
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aqualona-41031-Connection-Function-Mountable/dp/B0156Q726C
    A wall bracket? That must be the de luxe model.
  • AdrianC
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    A wall bracket? That must be the de luxe model.
    This IS 2019, y'know. Some things really should be taken for granted.

    (I think they always had the bracket, but it got lobbed because it was pointless)
  • shortcrust
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    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    Omg flannel washing in 2019. There is so much wrong with that. I was born in the sixties. My parents were working class - dad a coal miner. The only time I had a flannel wash was in a tent on holiday. Really it's not very hygienic.

    It might not be very pleasant but it’s hardly unhygienic.
  • sgun
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    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    Omg flannel washing in 2019. There is so much wrong with that. I was born in the sixties. My parents were working class - dad a coal miner. The only time I had a flannel wash was in a tent on holiday. Really it's not very hygienic.

    LOL I flannel wash every day and I haven't been ill in around 5 years. I have a good old soak in the bath once a week too to get the ingrained dirt out. This is mainly because our shower is in the ensuite and husband works totally different hours from me so flannel washing is handier. Its still soap and water so how is it unhygienic?

    That's not to say if I was renting I wouldn't want a working shower, I would if I was paying for it. It doesn't sound like you have had any dealings with the actual landlord. You do have an address? Do you have a phone number? If not get down to the letting agents with the threat of EH and as a matter of urgency get them to contact the landlord while you are there. I would probably call EH anyway as it has been going on for so long, just to get a definite answer about habitability during the repairs.
  • G_M
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    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    Omg flannel washing in 2019. There is so much wrong with that. I was born in the sixties. My parents were working class - dad a coal miner. The only time I had a flannel wash was in a tent on holiday. Really it's not very hygienic.
    What do you think a bedbath is that those nice nurses (well, nowadays it's a 'care assistant') give you in hospital....?
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