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New builds. Do you really need three toilets in a 2 bed mid/semi?
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As someone else said, the downstairs loo is part of the building regs now. I do find a downstairs toilet useful, so guests don't have to go upstairs, I can nip toilet more quickly during ad breaks, the kids can wash their sticky hands after dinner without spreading them all up the bannister and wall.I also have an ensuite which I use for the sake of it. The shower cubicle is smaller in there so the wife doesn't like using it. We tend to all just use the shower in the main bathroom so we are only filling one room with steam and only have to open one window. An ensuite in a two bedroom house is madness in my opinion.1
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Postik said:As someone else said, the downstairs loo is part of the building regs now. I do find a downstairs toilet useful, so guests don't have to go upstairs, I can nip toilet more quickly during ad breaks, the kids can wash their sticky hands after dinner without spreading them all up the bannister and wall.I also have an ensuite which I use for the sake of it. The shower cubicle is smaller in there so the wife doesn't like using it. We tend to all just use the shower in the main bathroom so we are only filling one room with steam and only have to open one window. An ensuite in a two bedroom house is madness in my opinion.
Ad breaks. Great demonstration of changing habits there. I haven't seen an ad break for at least a decade, and I think quite a few younger people are now growing up not having any broadcast TV in the house at all.
An en-suite is nice, but given how tiny most British new builds are, they aren't the best use of space. It would be better to have a separate toilet and bathroom. The bathroom could have a basin area and a separate shower (cubicle, or ideally a wet room with light weight folding door). Takes less room than duplicating everything, but allows for the toilet and shower to be used at the same time. Having a proper little wet room is good for accessibility, and means you can wash quickly and efficiently without worry.
In Japan they often have a small bath in the wet room too. You have to sit with your knees up, but you can soak and it does save water. Companies there sell an entire wet room made out of fibreglass or something similar, so you can refresh that room by just taking the old one out and installing a new one. It handles waterproofing and has standard fixings for drainage and the shower hose/controls. Of course you get the more traditional tiled ones too.0 -
GaleSF63 said:MobileSaver said:If you're female then maybe... As a man I can barely do one thing at a time properly so suggesting I can keep my eye on two things at once is rather optimistic.I'm sure that every one of us at one time or another has boiled a kettle, forgotten about it and had to boil it again...As @sheramber said, it would be very boring if we all liked the same thing; in our house we love the boiling water tap and wouldn't do without it.
Every generation blames the one before...
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Sometimes I look at house plans and wonder why 4 or 5 bedroom houses don't have two family bathrooms instead of 1 family and an ensuite. Why should all the occupants of the remaining bedrooms have to share one bathroom/toilet and the master bedroom have their own facilities much better for everyone to have access to two bathrooms.
I find the boiling water taps terrifying! I am so uncoordinated I fear I would be splashing my arms with boiling water at regular intervals.Decluttering, 20 mins / day Jan 2024 2/22 -
oystercatcher said:Why should all the occupants of the remaining bedrooms have to share one bathroom/toilet and the master bedroom have their own facilitiesoystercatcher said:I find the boiling water taps terrifying! I am so uncoordinated I fear I would be splashing my arms with boiling water at regular intervals.Pretty much every new visitor to the house is invited to turn on the boiling water tap. Over the four or five years we've had it not a single person has worked out how to turn it on without first being shown - it's easy once you know how but it's simply not possible to accidentally end up with boiling water pouring out the tap.Every generation blames the one before...
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Teapot55 said:I reckon there’s still thousands, if not millions of turn-of-the-century terraced houses in this country with no upstairs toilet/ bathroom.Some stagger downstairs in the middle of the night. Guess others have a bucket, especially as they get older.Definitely not discussed at dinner parties 🤣If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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At the opposite end of the scale I’ve just seen a six bedroom house for sale with one bathroom and one wc. That’s not a house I’d look at though some of the bedrooms are large so en suite s may be possible.1
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oystercatcher said:Sometimes I look at house plans and wonder why 4 or 5 bedroom houses don't have two family bathrooms instead of 1 family and an ensuite. Why should all the occupants of the remaining bedrooms have to share one bathroom/toilet and the master bedroom have their own facilities much better for everyone to have access to two bathrooms.
I find the boiling water taps terrifying! I am so uncoordinated I fear I would be splashing my arms with boiling water at regular intervals.
It says 100 degrees on the little display but if I fill the kettle up with supposedly boiling water from them, it then takes a while to actually boil and its far hotter than the taps.
I want a hot cup of tea/coffee, not a luke warm one3 -
Noneforit999 said:oystercatcher said:Sometimes I look at house plans and wonder why 4 or 5 bedroom houses don't have two family bathrooms instead of 1 family and an ensuite. Why should all the occupants of the remaining bedrooms have to share one bathroom/toilet and the master bedroom have their own facilities much better for everyone to have access to two bathrooms.
I find the boiling water taps terrifying! I am so uncoordinated I fear I would be splashing my arms with boiling water at regular intervals.
It says 100 degrees on the little display but if I fill the kettle up with supposedly boiling water from them, it then takes a while to actually boil and its far hotter than the taps.
I want a hot cup of tea/coffee, not a luke warm one
My Tesco quick boil kettle boils enough for a drink in less than a minute and cost me £20 ( it even has a fancy technological blue light on it )
In the future I can see loads of these still fitted in kitchens that dont work as people didnt want to spend £1000 replacing them0
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