New builds. Do you really need three toilets in a 2 bed mid/semi?

lookstraightahead

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. 

Purely because en-suite sounds good and it takes up less room than another bathroom. The 5th or 4th bedroom is probably bathroom size.

sellihg a new build with 4 beds and an en-suite will attract more money than exactly the same floor space but with 3 beds and 2 bathrooms.

Postik

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. 

I always assumed it's because, generally speaking, mum and dad paid for the house so they get better facilities than the kids :-)

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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. 

We have those boiling taps at work but I don't find them hot enough.

It's like most things, you get what you pay for.

In our main kitchen we have a £1,000 Quooker, that produces actual boiling water; from memory it stores water at something like 110 degrees Celsius in the tank to be able to dispense it at 100 degrees from the tap. It's the real McCoy with sounds effects and steam gushing out just like in a barista coffee joint.

Anecdotally and being a pedant I'd say it's actually ever so slightly hotter than a drink made from a kettle as most people wait for the kettle to click off (which instantly starts cooling down) before pouring whereas the Quooker is actual boiling water straight into the cup.

Conversely we also have a £500 Insinkerator in my study kitchenette and that doesn't quite produce boiling water; however for me that's perfect and by design as I only ever drink coffee which you're not supposed to use actual boiling water.

mi-key

it's still £980 ( probably more like £1280 after fitting ) more than a kettle which does exactly the same thing

lookstraightahead

I like the idea of a boiling water tap. Every time my OH goes past the kettle he put it on out of habit. Such a bad thing to do! And sometimes he doesn't put enough water in it. And when he fills it he drips water over the floor. A tap like this could save me years of anxiety 🤣

Sunsaru

lookstraightahead said:

I like the idea of a boiling water tap. Every time my OH goes past the kettle he put it on out of habit. Such a bad thing to do! And sometimes he doesn't put enough water in it. And when he fills it he drips water over the floor. A tap like this could save me years of anxiety 🤣

£1000 outlay to avoid a murder charge sounds like money well spent IMO.

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mi-key said:

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. 

We have those boiling taps at work but I don't find them hot enough.

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 them

Years ago I remember my girlfriend going through a phase of using some sort of "one cup" kettle she came home with one day; I can't remember whether it was supposed to be money saving or time saving but it didn't last long as it never really boiled enough water for actual real-life usage. I distinctly remember she did love the fancy blue light on it though!

I'm not sure you're right about redundant taps in the future - it's one of those things that, once you've used one, for many people you'd never want to go back to an old-fashioned kettle.

They're also so convenient that I can see them becoming mass market which will bring the price down anyway. Similarly I suspect that often it would only be the tank that needs replacing so a fraction of the initial install cost.

mi-key

MobileSaver said:

mi-key said:

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. 

We have those boiling taps at work but I don't find them hot enough.

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 them

Years ago I remember my girlfriend going through a phase of using some sort of "one cup" kettle she came home with one day; I can't remember whether it was supposed to be money saving or time saving but it didn't last long as it never really boiled enough water for actual real-life usage. I distinctly remember she did love the fancy blue light on it though!

I'm not sure you're right about redundant taps in the future - it's one of those things that, once you've used one, for many people you'd never want to go back to an old-fashioned kettle.

They're also so convenient that I can see them becoming mass market which will bring the price down anyway. Similarly I suspect that often it would only be the tank that needs replacing so a fraction of the initial install cost.

I don't know, technology these days is designed to last the shortest possible time after the warranty runs out before something goes wrong with it ! ( one of my main bugbears as a qualifed design engineer !!! ) and that is assuming they will even let you buy a tank or part on it's own without having to replace the whole thing

sheramber

There are lots of things we don't really need but can enjoy having.

mi-key

i think they should all have these :