How Many Bathrooms & People in Your Home?

How Many Bathrooms & People in Your Home?​


1 & 2

So far we've been able to handle #1 and #2 without running into SRO situations

Heh, when we lived at the cabin, there was one.
It was a one seater

Visiting kids couldn't get over our privy
and began to poke fun at it all
until
I mentioned 'at least we don't poop in our house'
Kinda shut 'em up
 

2 people 2 bathrooms. Put bidet in one bathroom <--- naturally I don't use that one for sanitary reasons.

Upgraded the other by removing the tub & installing shower with tile walls & sliding glass doors. <---- that was an ugly project. Ugly in the sense the shower base didn't line up with the floor drain so had to buy left hand drain base. Raise the base 6" to be able to align the 1 1/2" drain pipe & give it a 20degree drop for positive draining. On top of that the copper shut off valves for the sink & toilet broke off due to age & being compression fittings. Knocked out the walls to expose the lines coming in. Used tubing cutter to assure clean cut to be able to sweat copper extensions for valve replacement.

Since there was that $2,800.00 government handout for covid relief, the project didn't take any money out of pocket. DIY saved labor costs & 10% veterans discount at Lowes wound up leaving us with fun money for us to spend
 
Heh, when we lived at the cabin, there was one.
It was a one seater

Visiting kids couldn't get over our privy
and began to poke fun at it all
until
I mentioned 'at least we don't poop in our house'
Kinda shut 'em up
When I was younger, in my 20s, I lived in Wyoming for 3 years with a outdoor outhouse and no indoor plumbing. It wasn't bad once you got used to it. Winters were cold so you learned to be fast.

Biggest problem was that porcupines seemed to like hanging out in it. Had to be careful at night...
 
1 person and 1 bathroom. Luxury!

I've lived with numerous bathroom situations (shared, privy, whatever). A few years ago I was going to rent a house with an outdoor shower -- really outdoor, with no enclosure.

Decades ago, a woman in northern Ontario told me about going to a local dance. She was amused by the drunk people going out to use the privy, stumbling across the snow and ice in the dark.
 
Just to define the word bathroom, you notice that Holly said the word "Loo." The loo is what we Brits refer to as the lavatory, others refer to the lavatory as the bathroom. In Brit-speak a bathroom would have a full body wash facility like a bath tub or shower. When the toilet is no more than a cubical with hand basin and lavatory, that's what we call a loo, others say half bathroom.

We have a five bedroomed house, two of the bedrooms have en-suit bathrooms, there's a master bathroom and two further loos or half bathrooms. There are just the two of us and not having any children we don't have grandchildren so her ladyship has one en-suit, guests have the other and I get the ballroomesque master bathroom. That's because she says that I stink!
 
Keeping one bathroom clean has always been enough of a challenge for me.

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We had 4 people and 1 bathroom for about 4 years. What a hassel. You had to take a 3 minute shower! :) We do live in the forest so when nature called...and the bathroom was occupied....Now we have 2 people and the one bath. But we don't have running hot water. We are using a small plastic pool and warming the water in the sun all day to take a bath. During the winter we will boil water to take sponge baths.
 
3 people -- 2 bathrooms combining 3 sinks, 1 shower, 1 whirlpool tub, I tub/shower combo, 2 toilets. Not enough.
1 mini-dachshund and 1large fenced in yard. Not enough.

[None of us ever use that large corner whirlpool tub because it's too hard to get in and out of. What a waste of space.]
 


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