I never understood the reason for open showers. “Enjoy your wet bathroom.”
You should be able to get a glass half door that clips on to give you a little more protection.
You could also get a more downward shower head
It’s a hotel shower.
Why even have a doorless/curtainless shower? I don’t understand the appeal. How is the warmth supposed to stay in so you’re not shaving off the tips of goosebumps?
Shower doors are difficult to clean well, shower curtains stick to the body, space is limited (problem if you’re bigger), steam can make it harder to breathe…
Finns have figured out doorleess showers: they waterproof the whole room and equip it with a squeegee on a long stick. The floor is flat with a slight slope towards the drain. After you’re done you just wipe the floor with the squeegee (takes 10 seconds) and that’s it.
That’s still worse than just having a door. The squeegee helps, but it’s not perfect, and I hate stepping on wet/damp floor after drying my feet. I mostly see that style in hotels or bathrooms which are too tiny to fit a proper shower. Whenever not space constrained, I’m pretty sure they’re just there to save money.
Building code in most if not all of northern Europe require bathrooms to be a proper wet room, meaning waterproofing and a drain for all parts of the bathroom. This means either having two drains, or to allow water to flow from the rest of the bathroom to the shower. Guess which alternative is easier and cheaper to do?
But your towel would get damp. And your poor toothbrush is gonna taste like your brother’s shampoo!
The title also describes what happens when I’m alone with my wife.
I have this. I just ended up installing a curtain rod and a shower curtain that I remove weekly to avoid pulling off tile via gradual pressure fusion. What a worthless fucking shower
The opening is too wide, the shower head should be a rainfall shower, not the Commando 450.
Nah. Ours is a rainfall shower but the floor still gets wet.
I think you’re dead-on. I had a 5’ wide doorless shower, 3’ of glass, and a rainfall showerhead and it was fine. Minimal leakage
Mine was fine till the kids grew up and wanted showers not baths. Water everywhere. Had to replace it with a sliding door
You can wash an elephant with that thing.
They can for sure work, but as others have said you need room. When we built our house we put no tub in the master bathroom just a monster shower which fully supports our no door life.
After showerthough
We have two of those in our home, I installed small rings in the water tube, so that much less water comes out. Now, even our guests do not completely sprayed the bathroom . Added advantage: better for the climate.
Doorless showers are fine, but why is the floor in the bathroom not made of tiles, where it doesn’t matter as much when water spils? Strange decision by someone who either had no clue or didn’t care enough.
looks like linoleum floor. or, it should be.
Supports my head
My fav is the ones that just say fuck it and make the whole bathroom into a shower; as if people don’t keep anything else in the bathroom, like idk towels or the clothes you’re putting on after you shower…
I didn’t want a practical bathroom anyway…
Honestly, if it was built right, that would be the perfect type of bathroom. Imagine a bathroom where all the surfaces are water proof. Then, when it’s time to clean the bathroom, you just hose everything down the floor drain!
My uni dormitory bathroom was like that, a very tiny off-white plastic cube with a toilet, sink and shower in no more than about 2 square meters.
It looked like crap, especially with aging year by year, but it was really easy to clean indeed. Though if everything gets wet regularly, mold also has an easier time spreading, so we needed to do that “easier” cleaning more often as a result
This is the way most Japanese showers are set up, and it works well because the shower/tub, toilet, and sink/storage area are three separate rooms.
Here is a (simplified approximation of a) common layout:
When the shower is literally alone in its own room, that’s a little different.
I’m talking about when the full bathroom; toilet, sink, and shower, are all in the one uninterrupted space.
Did Dave piss on the damn toilet seat again, or is it just splash from the shower? 🤷🏻
Just use the bum gun to spray the seat off. And then talk to Dave.
I assume you mean the kind of talking that involves fists, yes?
Dont you just leave clothes in the spa area outside your shower room? I find it easier to dress there anyway since it got more room for movement
OFC, this is all on my multimillion dollar yacht after all…
I looked at an apartment once where they had a proper door-less shower. You had to, like, walk around a corner to enter it. I considered leasing that apartment just because of the shower, but yeah a proper door-less shower takes up a lot of space.
I’ve briefly thought about it, but I would need to make the whole bathroom waterproof, and that stops the intrusive thoughts.
Just need a layer of Ditra under the tile.
Understood, it’s just a bigger undertaking than I want to deal with. 100+ year old houses are a project on their own
People want them but they don’t want to admit that they don’t have enough space for one that properly works.
They’re terrible. Everything you said is true, but I’ll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they’re miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it’s just cold.
That’s 100% a hotel, though.
Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
That just looks like an unfinished shower, or a sliding door set with a missing half. Maybe you could get a little shower curtain to hang up across the hole
Looks like a hotel. Best just to ask the front desk for extra towels.
I encountered this exact setup at a hotel recently. This seems like a hotel as well with how those bottles are attached to the wall
I’m fairly certain it’s a Marriott.
Peak aesthetics
