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Welcome to Bathroom Info
Welcome to Bathroom
Info, your site for everything related to bathrooms. You will find
information on bathroom remodeling, bathroom decorating and much more.
Building a bathroom
- what are your options?
If you are building a
house, you are probably dealing with all sorts of options for what kind of
bathroom to design into the house. And some bathrooms do not actually have
a bathtub, but we use the term loosely to define that kind of room in a
house. For example, a so called half bath is a term used by builders and
real estate agents to describe a room with a toilet and a sink, whereas a
full bath, or just a "bathroom" is considered to have a toilet, a sink,
and also a shower or bath tub or a combo tub and shower.
In some of the parts of the world where space is limited, the bathroom
takes on a whole different design. There are apartments in crowded cities
like Hong Kong for instance, that have very small amounts of space and so
the bathroom has to be made very small in order to fit it into the scheme
of things. When you open the door to one of these rather odd looking
little bathrooms, if it has a tub you will be confronted by the end of the
tub blocking the doorway, and have to step over the side of the tub and
into the tub in order to enter the bathroom, which is only the size of the
tub. At one end of the tub is a toilet, which is plumbed right into the
bottom of the other end of the tub. The sink is one the wall on one side,
and the faucet can be adjusted so that the water misses the sink and falls
into the tub to fill the tub for bathing.
And in other designs which are very common, for example in places like
Central America, the bathroom is built with a raised little wall around
the edge of it, so that you have to step over a six inch tall curb to
enter the room. That is so that the water can go on the floor without
flooding out into the rest of the house. The water is trapped or dammed up
by that little lift or curb, and in the center of the bathroom floor is a
big drain. In the ceiling is a shower, and then the rest of the room is
set up in the way most of us are accustomed to, with a toilet and a sink.
If you want to take a shower you turn on the shower and the whole room
gets wet but the water doesn't escape the room and the drain water goes
down the drain that is in the middle of the floor.
Of course if you were to attempt to make one of these kinds of bathroom
designs in the USA, you would probably find yourself in a world of red
tape because of various building code violations. For that reason, most
bathrooms in the USA are similar, with a basic room and basic components.
Although there are luxurious versions that are huge, and have dressing
rooms and even saunas or swimmng pools included. You are limited only by
your budget and the design opportunties at your disposal.
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