This is a question that has irked me for some time. From hotel baths to the baths in houses I’ve visited to baths in apartments I’ve been to, I don’t think I’ve EVER found a bath that a fully grown human can lie in when fully outstretched.
The point of a bath is to be submerged in water and let the dialysis effect work - that’s how your body gets clean. Now tell me, how the fuck am I supposed to do that when I have to decide between whether to submerge my back in the water and bend my knees, or keep my knees straight and not submerge my whole upper torso?
The drain that prevents overflow is a great design idea (yay for not getting the hardwood floors wet by splashing), but the implementation is HORRIBLE! The lip of the tub is always too short to keep the water level high enough to submerge the whole body anyway, and then the overflow drain has to be placed even lower than that to prevent the splashes. The amount of space for water to reside is three quarters of already-not-enough!
As a result, I find myself having to intentionally put the water level above the overflow drain to ACTUALLY submerge myself (still not all at the same time), but even THAT is only a temporary solution and means I can’t move much for fear of splashing, which is EXACTLY WHAT THE OVERFLOW DRAIN WAS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT!
All I want is a relaxing fucking bathing experience that doesn’t cause me discomfort so I can feel like a clean and luxurious princess for an ultimately small fraction of my life. WHY IS THIS REQUEST SO IMPOSSIBLY HARD TO SATISFY?!
Bathroom designers, please. Explain yourselves.
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Submitted August 03, 2018 at 06:51PM by chessgeek101 https://ift.tt/2LVp23v
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