Family bathroom behind kitchen. Why?

p00hsticks

aoleks said:

It’s not what’s been mentioned above, it’s the cretin trend of magically transforming a 2 bed house into a 3 bed by moving the bathroom downstairs.

auto reject from me, it’s one of the worst things you can do to mess up a house layout. I don’t want my shlong dangling in front of guests when I’m on my way from the bathroom to the bedroom, not to mention the cold…

Round where I was, if anything the transformation has been the other way round. Loads of Victorian terraces with bathroom added to back of downstairs kitchen, and three bedrooms upstairs  - the third a boxroom off the second - had people moving the bathroom upstairs into the box room - with the disadvantage that unless you also added a corridor you had to go through a bedroom to get to the bathroom .

Ditzy_Mitzy

w12ee3e said:

I don't get it. Why were properties of a certain period all configured with the toilet / bath / shower room all behind the kitchen? It seems like the most utterly brain dead place to locate those facilities. The only logical explanation I can think of is this was some sort of weird compromise on the out house concept, also long dead. But then again those never had showers or bath.

Almighty God, which readeth MoneySavingExpert, didst see thine complaint and thinketh 'lawks, it'd be a right laugh to wind up w12ee3e'.  He thus moved in tyme to 1948 and did appeareth in the dreame of one Sidney Clemence, engineer of houses.  To Clemence he declareth: 'thou shalt build batherooms on the backes of houses upp and down this lande'.  And Clemence awoke and thought that was goode and set forth with his toolebox and his lorrye to build batherooms behind kitchens all over England.  

lookstraightahead

aoleks said:

It’s not what’s been mentioned above, it’s the cretin trend of magically transforming a 2 bed house into a 3 bed by moving the bathroom downstairs.

auto reject from me, it’s one of the worst things you can do to mess up a house layout. I don’t want my shlong dangling in front of guests when I’m on my way from the bathroom to the bedroom, not to mention the cold…

🤣🤣🤣 I have the most weird visual at the moment 

Doozergirl

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

w12ee3e said:

I don't get it. Why were properties of a certain period all configured with the toilet / bath / shower room all behind the kitchen? It seems like the most utterly brain dead place to locate those facilities. The only logical explanation I can think of is this was some sort of weird compromise on the out house concept, also long dead. But then again those never had showers or bath.

Almighty God, which readeth MoneySavingExpert, didst see thine complaint and thinketh 'lawks, it'd be a right laugh to wind up w12ee3e'.  He thus moved in tyme to 1948 and did appeareth in the dreame of one Sidney Clemence, engineer of houses.  To Clemence he declareth: 'thou shalt build batherooms on the backes of houses upp and down this lande'.  And Clemence awoke and thought that was goode and set forth with his toolebox and his lorrye to build batherooms behind kitchens all over England.  

Actual 😂😂😂

love it!

Scotbot

Doozergirl said:

aoleks said:

It’s not what’s been mentioned above, it’s the cretin trend of magically transforming a 2 bed house into a 3 bed by moving the bathroom downstairs.

auto reject from me, it’s one of the worst things you can do to mess up a house layout. I don’t want my shlong dangling in front of guests when I’m on my way from the bathroom to the bedroom, not to mention the cold…

I've got to see this.  Show me an example, please! 

It really is what everyone else has said above - that the houses pre-date bathrooms, but if someone's doing what you've said then I'd love to see it.  

You want an example of his shlong? I think you are on the wrong site😂😂😂😂

unforeseen

Murphybear said:

We looked at a rental property a few years ago, before the modern rules existed.  The bath was in the kitchen, a big board covered it when not in use.  The only loo was outside.  Needless to say we didn’t take it.  

That's the sort of house that I grew up in. Also a gas fired washing machine where the agitator was manual. 

Thrugelmir

w12ee3e said:

I don't get it. Why were properties of a certain period all configured with the toilet / bath / shower room all behind the kitchen? It seems like the most utterly brain dead place to locate those facilities. The only logical explanation I can think of is this was some sort of weird compromise on the out house concept, also long dead. But then again those never had showers or bath.

Rather than not getting it. Why not find out the reason. Never been easy to obtain information........... 

lookstraightahead

My first house was a two made into three bed with a downstairs bathroom with a huge corner bath. Worked fine for us. In fact if you've only got one toilet I think it's better to be downstairs. Whichever way it's better than an outside toilet, no shower/bath, no central heating and newspaper for toilet roll.

newsgroupmonkey_

jonnydeppiwish! said:

RelievedSheff said:

This has to be a wind up?

I think so - either that or it’s someone who thinks bathrooms, let alone indoor facilities, were common place even 70 years ago.

Even up until the 90s, baths and showers were not an everyday occurrence as they are now. When baths were run, everyone in the house used the same water.

We had an electric shower fitted in the mid 80s. And we were the only family I know that had one.

Posh people had a power shower IIRC.

At best, most families had a mixer tap with a shower built in. Now that makes sense now with our combi boilers, but back in those days, they didn't exist. Everyone had a tank (with limited hot water). Family of 6? Good luck getting a warm shower/bath (Which was why we had the shower fitted)

Rambosmum

Victorian terrace houses were usually built as either 2 bed rooms, a rear kitchen and outside loo or 3 bedrooms, one being a box room over the back kitchen. 

Our house for example - a large victorian terrace was originally a basement kitchen that the house keeper lived in. At the turn of the century a back kitchen was added, when having staff was less common and then in the 1910s they built a third bedroom on top of the back kitchen. At some point in the 1950s, the third bedroom was converted in to an indoor bathroom, but other houses down the street knocked in to the external loo and put the bathroom in there - it was cheaper because the plumbing was already there. 

Then with the property boom, 3 bed houses with a downstairs bedroom were more sought after then 2 beds and upstairs bathroom and it was also costly to change them, so they stayed. Once you have 3 bedrooms, you don't want to lose one to a bathroom. Plus lots of rental properties rent per room, so 3 beds gets a higher income.