It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.
It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.
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It is half a bathroom
No you don't get to ask why a bathroom is called a bathroom. It is like questioning the origin of a hot dog.
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You'd be amazed how much bathing some people manage to do with just a sink.
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You've been to McDonald's I take it
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And in the UK a “cloakroom” is very rarely a place specifically to hang your cloak…
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On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
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Which is what makes it all that much more satisfying when the next person goes in
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You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.
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And now I'm going to touch grass
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Don't forget to bathe after!
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Cursed comment, but I’ll add on to it: If you plug the door slit with a towel the whole room becomes your tub.
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Never heard "half bath", and I always called those washrooms.
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It is common in the US, frequently they will be listed as 2 & 1/2 baths if they have two with tubs and one without.
Haven't paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don't add up like regular fractions...
I always found the term 1/2 bath weird.
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that's some realtor math. they are known to magically inflate surface before you buy it, and shrink it back once you bought / rented it. Mathematicians can't explain that !
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Haven't paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don't add up like regular fractions...
They'd either list them separately or as a whole and then clarify. E.g. "two full- and two half-baths"or something like "four bathrooms - two full"
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Commonly called called a 'powder room' in australia.
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Maybe it's a class difference thing but I've more commonly heard it referred to as "the shitter," "dunny," or "toilet."
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Powder room is where you store amino.
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I’m in the US and powered room is used in places I’ve lived. But on real estate listings it is common to call it 1/2 bath.
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or "water closet" in the UK
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It's a way to conveniently talk about the number of bathrooms. You can say a house is "three bedroom, two and a half bath" and you convey that there are two bathrooms and one "washroom".
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What gets confusing are these large homes, or McMansions that list 5 bedrooms and 7 and a half baths. So are they listing 3 powder rooms at 1.5 baths? I can’t afford them, so I only see it online; but that part gets weird. I have seen descriptions that then list full and partial though.
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The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.
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Technically if it doesn't have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)
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Bath doesn't refer to the tub, it refers to bathing. You can 'sink bathe' with a rag and running sink water.
So a half-bath, contains 1/2 of the common furnishings for bathing.
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Yeah, a "full" bathroom with just a shower also has zero bathtubs.
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At that point you're halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
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We'd just call that room "the toilet"
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Good news! Most of the world would find that extremely weird (as with calling a room with no baths a bathroom). I think it's due to the euphemism treadmill.
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And if you had half a bathtub, you could as well have no bathtub at all
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If it's fixed to a waterproof wall, it would work. Weird, but work.
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in german that room is just called "das klo" (the toilet)
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*Klo
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thx, fixed the typo, dam phone keyboards being so small
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If you chop a bathtub in half and place the parts in different rooms, you can have two half baths. If you bring four such parts in the same room, you’ll get a double bath. Probably still not very good for actually bathing, because a half tubs don’t hold much water.
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We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.
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By code a bathroom is a sink and any combination of a bidet, shower, tub, or toilet.
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You're right. It should be called a 2/3 bath instead.
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You would have been fine if it was a Boston Whaler.
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Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.
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