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Comment by mitthrowaway2

2 days ago

I recently stayed at a hotel in San Francisco that had no bathroom door. I'd even upgraded to the queen size room specifically because their layout map showed a door while the smaller rooms did not. I was pretty annoyed by that. (Edit: Despite being a single traveller. I think doors are important for hygiene).

Happy to see someone is trying to fix this trend.

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eru  2 days ago

How are doors important for hygiene?

  • ssl-3  2 days ago

    In my part of the US, a lot of our "old" houses were built before indoor plumbing.

    So when the plumbing was installed, obviously some went to the kitchen. And the bathroom, which previously didn't exist, was often an addition to (or a division from) the kitchen -- with a doorway [with a door] betwixt the kitchen and the bathroom -- because that made the plumbing easier.

    IIRC, that particular feature disqualifies the home for financing with both the VA and with HUD for reasons of hygiene.

    So by extension: According to VA and HUD, hygiene requires at least one door and at least one additional room of separation between the place where you shit and the place where you eat.

    • ghaff  2 days ago

      I assume my house in the Northeast didn't originally have indoor plumbing. The bathroom is upstairs; I assume it was carved off from one of the upstairs bedrooms or it was a closet/storage area of some sort. It's been redone a couple times since I moved in and it does have a door.

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    • kelnos  2 days ago

      That wouldn't apply to hotel rooms, though, as most do not have kitchens in the guest rooms.

  • dboreham  2 days ago

    Little pieces of shit can fly through the air quite far when the wc is flushed. As a former British person I had no idea about this, but was brought up to speed by US family members..

    Update: this is why you should put the lid down to flush. But put it back up again after because <reasons>

    • eru  2 days ago

      The steady state of my toilet is closed. As my mother used to say: 'This ain't an open plan toilet.'

      (Of course, she said it in German, so she complained about 'Wohnklo' in analogy with a 'Wohnküche' which is the German word for an open-plan kitchen.)

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