Every time I shower in Europe the bathroom is soaked. More recently, at least the showerheads are mounted and not handheld but when it’s a bath tub / shower combo there’s never a full door.
Every time I shower in Europe the bathroom is soaked. More recently, at least the showerheads are mounted and not handheld but when it’s a bath tub / shower combo there’s never a full door.
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Get ready for 1,000 Europeans telling you that you’re showering incorrectly.
As a european, this has baffled me too. Most hotels force you to drown the whole bathroom floor.
I just tilted the shower head more towards the wall and made the best of it. Just treated it as another cultural discovery. 😉
Which of the 50 countries in Europe are you talking about?
I have only ever seen this in hotels. The houses and apartments I have visited in Europe had doors or curtains.
Wait till you go to Korea and they have I would refer to as a wet bathroom. The drain is in the middle of the room.
I used to have a bathtub with a handheld shower. Then a bathtub / shower combo, mounted and handheld, completely closed, with a ceiling. Now a smaller shower with normal height glass but water leaks to the floor for some reason for the first time. So it depends. But I’ve just googled half glass shower and I’ve never seen anything like that anywhere tbh.
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My very normal dush in sweden, except my floor is slightly lower inside the shower.
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Because Europe does a lot of things the wrong way for historical, obtuse reasons, just like every country in the world.
What I’d really like to know, European hotels, is where is my damn washcloth? You expect me to just slide liquid soap around the surface of my body with my hand?
They need the extra material to give their public bathroom stalls full doors
I am Spanish and I have no idea what you are talking about. I’ve never seen a shower with only half a glass, they either have a sliding door or a curtain.
I’m not sure if this is country specific or something hotels do? Even if it’s the latter I’ve never been in one that had that
This is becoming more common in US hotels. The last several I’ve stayed in have had shower doors like this.
Maybe for ease of cleaning?
In Morocco they don’t have any shower glass or anything. They do have a glass wall around the toilet though.
The shower also had a rain faucet, a wand at about eye level, and then another wand down by the faucet. If it wasn’t for the fact that every shower flooded the bathroom, it’d have been the fanciest shower I’d ever been in.
Yes, and even the half-pane is on the wrong damn side since it’s always on the side where the water is spraying FROM instead of where the water is spraying TO! You know, the side where all the water is collecting from the force of the spray? Yeah, wide ass open just spraying and sloshing out onto the floor.
i travel a fair amount for work and, like somebody earlier, can report that this is becoming more common here in the states. i am not a fan, fwiw.
To offset Americans not having full doors in their restroom stalls. Law of equivalent exchange and what not.
Lemme be devil’s advocate for a moment…
The half glass:
Is cheap compared to a proper sliding door
Is way easier to clean. It doesn’t accumute grime and mould nowhere near as much as a sliding door, or curtains.
It does a “good enough” job: You don’t need to prevent 100% from water from touching the bathroom floor, it will just evaporate without doing any damage (*). A good X% (**) is good enough. You just then put the small towel on the bathroom floor to collect the water that escapes
(*) … Assuming good floor construction, with waterproof tiles or something
(**) … The percentage varies based on how much glass there is and how much care they took when designing the bathroom. Hotel rooms are often just a bad copy-paste, without much thought.
They are pessimists
I’m actually surprised the top comments aren’t all euros falling over themselves to say how superior it is to have wet floors
I think I never saw the problem with having the bathroom wet. I think the reason is humidity. Basically better to have all the moisture diluted in the family full volume of the room rather than in the shower cabin. Maybe, idk
Same thing in Australian hotels.
“Europe”
What’s with North Americans all living in houses made from ice?
My flat doesn’t even have a half door; it’s why I put up a curtain
Top or bottom?
It’s such a stupid trend.
Because their showers only get half full
We use it to make the toilet stalls go all the way to the floor
i’ve traveled quite a bit through Europe and only seen it once. Most of the time it’s not half glass from my experience. Here in Sweden i’ve never seen it, for example. The standard shower here like another commenter pointed out is 2 glass doors that connect with rubber ”wall molding” looking things on the connecting surfaces and towards the floor to keep the water inside.
As with every ”why does Europe” type question, how common something is depends on the country.
I’m European. My shower has two glass, so no water all over the bathroom. You’ve probably been mostly to hotels, at some countries.
self-cleaning bathroom!
Next, they’ll put the toilet under the showerhead so you can shit, shower and shave at the same time!
What is half glass?
The extra material to close the gaps in bathroom stalls had to come from somewhere.
Europeans shit on American homes and buildings all the time, but their bathrooms and kitchens suck. In my opinion they are the two most important things in a home and theirs are basically what we have in campers.
Half like how? I’m confused
Is this karma farming? In a comment you said you stayed in an old Airbnb in Spain. That’s NOT a hotel. That’s a house someone threw a few euros to revamp and sell as a cheap hotel ñ. Don’t compare a whole continent to that
Incoming pointless and irrelevant comments about how shitty America is.
Don’t you know you can’t say a single thing negative about Europe without everyone seething about what a dystopian wasteland America is?
I thought I just got a funky hotel in Germany. Guess that’s a common thing
Idk if you are referring to this, but walk in showers were very trendy few years ago. They still are but more people are aware how shitty they are.
Not a European, but all my rich friends have this. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. You literally have to mop the floor afterwards.
I’ve only seen this in hotels – which still is annoying but you’re supposed to be there only a short time
I have nver seen those halflings. But if you have been to a hotel, that alone might be the reason the heads are permanently mounted, those bholes might disappear somehow, making the shower useless for next guest.
We don’t.
Hint: Europa isn’t just a single big country where everything is the same.
Huh. Just yesterday I was marveling at the superiority of European toilets compared to American ones. But you’re right, our half pane solution is worthless.
My parents got one installed at their summer house when they renovated everything. The water predictably gets around it, and the builders sloped the floor incorrectly so it drains around the glass and pools at the bathroom door. So to avoid water damage you have to put a towel on the floor before showering. Useless.
european showers are basically a trust exercise with your bathroom floor
I can’t answer the why, but I am genuinely confused by all the people who apparently get water on the bathroom floor.
European here, and most showers I’ve seen have either a shower curtain or a fully enclosed glass panel, but one place we stay in for a week every year has this half glass thing you mention.
Now, I’m a small person compared to most Europeans and Americans. The shower head was mounted to the wall and adjustable to my height. The shower was inside a full-size bath tub and the glass reached a little over half way of the length of the bath tub. I have had many showers there over the years, without taking particular care, and I have rarely splashed water outside on my bath towel, and never flooded the entire bathroom. I guess I’m wondering how vigorously one must shower to get a lot of water on the floor.
It’s pretty easy not to soak everything once you get used to it
TL;DR skill issue
Never been to a hotel in Europe that did not have full glass to complete shut the shower.
Maybe dont go to cheap places.
As a German, what is a half door bathroom? All bathrooms I know have a full glass door (unless people tried to be edgy and modern and installed no door at all, but that’s a newer trend).
You are showering wrong if you are getting water all over the floor. It’s not that hard. The only water on the floor should be from you getting out of the shower.
There are little to nothing general about European showers. It’s very different from Sweden to Germany or Portugal.
European showers: come for the rinse, stay for the flood.
*In hotels. People do not have it like that at home.
It’s for the aesthetic. Also it’s cleaner with less corners where mold could be growing.
‘Every time I have a shower the bathroom is soaked’
Just be careful. You’re a grown human not a chimp.
My 10 year old can (now) manage to do his ablutions without soaking the entire place. It’s not rocket science.
Some houses/flats/apartments just don’t have room for a dedicated shower enclosure so have the bath/shower combination. You have to work with what you’ve got and not be a child about it.
After all, showering is a functional activity, what are you doing in there to get the whole room soaked?!
In my house the guest bathroom has half glass and I’m in Australia
Where in Europe are you? There is a big difference between Italy, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
I assume you mean a bath tub with a glass panel?
That’s obviously your choice of accommodation (low budget?) because although these types of shower do indeed exist in both private homes and hotels (and customers manage no flooding most of the time), they definitely aren’t the majority.
Here in the Netherlands it’s not so much an enclosure problem as it’s a floor problem – lots of showers have no barrier to stop the water from going everywhere. The shower floor is just an uninterrupted part of the bathroom floor. People keep squeegee brooms in the bathroom to clean up afterwards, but it seems like it would just make more sense to stop the water from flooding out in the first place.
I’m in England and I’m 40+. Every property i lived in had these stupid half panes. When we bought our house I ripped the fucker out and put in a bath and shower with a full curtain.
When I went bathroom shopping the stupid half panes were the ones most places sold. When I got a guy in to fit the bathroom he kept saying I should go for these as they are much better than a curtain as they don’t have to to be taken down to wash and they catch all the water. When I told him they always left a wet floor he told me I should stop having dance parties in the shower (typical British tradesman humour). I still ignored him and fitted the curtain.
Americans talking about Europe like its a country lol.
I can tell you this is not the default in Germany. We usually have glass walls all round. Same for every hotel i have been in the Netherlands.
Two different European countries can be a lot more different than two different US states.
I only ever shower when I’m sober, so haven’t experience the “bathroom is soaked” thing.
Probably just a hotel thing. It hasnt been like that in homes i lived but it has in hotels
What the fuck are you talking about? Europe is not a country, where have you been and where have you found that?
Because in MY country i’ve literally never seen that, and yet here you are telling me how “yuropean” showers are built like you say.