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So do they use tiles instead? What about cold feet?

Cold and slippery.

I guess you have to have underfloor heating.

We have carpet in our bathrooms.

"IMM" wrote | You can always build a small highly insulated brick cupboard at the | rear of the house. Pretty common in London.

Where it is called the au pair's room.

Owain

Yes - you are right, however the term Scandinavia is used loosely by English speaking people to include Finland too. Even some Finns use it and are surprised when you tell them that Finland doesn't technically count as Scandinavia. I have always preferred the term "Fennoscandia" but noone then understands what I am talking about.

There is a legal requirement for Swedish to be taught in Finnish schools (a much resented requirement) and nearly all schools teach English too.

They are big fans of the "wet room" concept. I.e. there is a drain in the floor of the bathroom. The whole room is a shower cubicle - often there is no curtain to separate shower from toilet, sauna etc.

The floors always seemed quite warm to me, even when -25 celcius outside.

M.

Not a problem.

If the tiles are layed on a wooden floor, then they acquire the temperature of the room anyway.

It's also quite common to have underfloor heating in the bathroom anyway.

I usually use the term "Nordic countries" or "Nordic Area" and then everybody is happy.

You can piss off Swedes by referring to Sweden as a Baltic State though :-)

I used to like the idea of wet rooms, until we rented a holiday home with one. Then I discovered that although a good idea in theory, they are a terrible idea in practice. All the stuff you keep in your bathroom gets damp, much more so than in a bathroom with a shower cubicle, the floor is wet all the time, so every time you go in there, you get your feet wet, and you get damp talcum powder footprints everywhere.

I agree. Horrible things. You have to take your shoes off to go to the toilet. Then dry your feet afterwards. The alternative is to make the floor look like Salisbury plain after two weeks of rain and few a Challenger tanks.

Christian.

When going round looking at new houses couple of years ago saw one or two new builds where the boiler was located on the wall in the dining room adjecent to the kitche, which I thought was particularly naff as it made quite a racket and looked really odd a big cupboard thing hanging on the wall. Obviously placed there as the kitchens were so bloomin small that loosing a cupboard for a boiler would have meant a loss of 25% (or even 33%) of the cupboards in the kitchen.

Why?

Because they get pissed on and soaked from the bath and go mouldy and manky and stink.

Christian.

Inability to pee appropriately, I suspect.

And full of germs. Some loonies even have carpets on the toilet seats. Amazing! Maybe they want to walk on the toilet. They will fall off.

Not in my experience, and that's with a young family. They've been taught to piss in the toilet.

Tests have shown that even the most fastidiuous urinator sprays over a large area. The urine spray atomises and is actually invisible at the edges. It's still lying on your manky carpet, no matter how good a shot you are.

Christian.

In article , Ian Middleton writes

There's a couple of new houses going up next to me and the boilers are being put in a small loft area above the utility rooms, its quite neat how they have created this area, fully boarded, insulated and pull down ladder all installed

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Not sure what the ladies will think to that.

It's also lying on your tiles, lino, or whatever. I've still never had a bathroom carpet smell or go mouldy.

MBQ

In article , Christian McArdle writes

Strange, I got the deluxe adjustable model (well worth the extra) and while it can be adjusted to a fine rose it is normally set to a well controlled jet ;-)