• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    It’s so you can get a nice wet spot on the floor for that maximum bathroom aesthetic.

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    8 hours ago

    It‘s for wetting your hand while on the toilet. This enables you to wipe and clean your ass with your wet hand.

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    11 hours ago

    The hole is there to allow water to pass through the shower wall and accrue on the floor surface around the toilet, enhancing the sock experience of toiletgoers.

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    My first thought was to flush the toilet whenever you needed warmer water. I used to rent an apartment where I had to turn on cold water in the sink to get hot enough water in the shower.

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      This doesn’t even make sense from a plumbing perspective

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        that’s what I thought at first, but there is actually a way that it makes sense

        you have hot water and cold water with a certain amount of pressure behind them feeding your apmt. if you turn the shower to full hot, the valve is still going to mix it with cold water. however if you take the cold water out at the sink prior to the shower feed, it’s not going to be replaced by more cold water if the system doesn’t have enough supply to keep up with it. so your shower water is being mixed with less cold water than before, resulting in a hotter mixed stream from the shower head

        and like maybe there’s other things going on and it’s not the same in every situation and all that, but you can test this yourself and get this result, so…

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        I don’t know what world you are from but my showers have also gone hot when the toilet is flushed

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    Looks like they installed it backwards, otherwise you’d be able to piss right into the toilet from the shower… because some people think it’s gross to wee in the shower.

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      7 hours ago

      For the truly enlightened it allows you to piss into the shower while standing on the toilet.

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      It never bothered me, but then I had to replace the 2nd floor bathroom junction from the ceiling below, and saw that the tub, sink, and toilet all join and go into the same pipe. It doesn’t matter which drain it goes into, it’s all the same pipe.

      Might be handy info at a big party. Pee wherever you want, just keep it off the floor.

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        Sure it all leaves through the same pipe, but it’s not like you stand in the toilet, no one ever lays down and soaks in the toilet, most of us don’t put children in the toilet.

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    The boring answer is that its for reaching the shower controls for adjusting the temperature and pressure without the need to stand under the shower. Mostly for people with disabilites or people who needs aides.

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      I don’t doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you’d have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can’t get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.

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        I found this which confirms it’s for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn’t have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.

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      Wouldn’t this also let water out and on to the floor? Surely a sliding or hinged opening couldn’t have been that hard to implement

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        It’s also in a very terrible spot for that purpose. It would be very awkward to reach the controls from that angle and where the toilet is at.

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        It won’t let out a ton since the water is spraying in an arc that misses it. There will be some water that splashes out after hitting you or the shower walls, but it’s not going to soak the floors or anything.

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          I doubt it won’t make much of a mess. My shower had a few leaky spots of caulking and that was enough to ruin the floors.

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            That’s a different issue since water pools around the caulk lines.

            I’ve stayed in hotels that didn’t even have glass for the first foot or so of the shower and it was a non-issue, although I definitely expected it to be.

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        Assuming you are bound to a wheelchair you probably won’t shower normally anyway

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          I don’t see how this changes anything. My guess is someone in a wheel chair would use the hand held showerhead more often, which means while maneuvering the shower, it would be possible to accidently spray right out that hole and soak the bathroom.

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            It would reduce the amount of water flying against the glass. But yes the mess will be the same

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          People who are in wheelchairs still shower the same amount. Depending on the nature of their impairment they may be able to stand long enough to shower, or they may climb into the tub and have a shower bench, or they may have an assistant who helps them shower. It’s pretty ableist to assume that someone with a mobility impairment isn’t able to maintain their hygiene.

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            They didn’t say they shower less, they said they may not shower normally.

            Showering with assistance, using a shower bench: these are not the ways people shower normally. That does not imply that these methods are unhygienic.

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      That’s even more confusing, why not forego the shower glass entirely and just have a shower curtain instead?

      Yes I know it’s likely retrofitted, but I won’t pass a chance to say that shower curtains are superior. Shower glass looks glossy in brochures, but everyone IRL has a sad squeegee hanging from it.

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      this is totally incorrect. its actual purpose is for the bathing wife to be able to give hand to her husband while he’s dumping a load

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    Its so you can poop in the shower and toss it in the toilet. Stomping it down clogs the drain

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    Pretty straightforward. Take a nasty shit and warm up the shower while you wipe. Alternatively, warm up the shower after realizing you’re out of shit tickets.