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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by fluoridation »

refulgentis wrote: post #86
moralestapia wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It probably is. Door closed + extractor makes gaps have negative pressure, no way anything goes into the room.

Extractor, what I’d call a bathroom fan, fair that effectively stops airflow, I’ll go with “close enough to negative pressure for civvies that they fool themselves” (I.e. ain’t actual negative pressure like a cdc lab) A door stops airflow? No.

>A door stops airflow? No.

I mean, it literally does. Put something that smokes in a bathroom, open the window, close the door, and caulk the gaps. See how much smoke phases through the door.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by bluGill »

darreninthenet wrote: post #106
akersten wrote: post #3

It's not about saving a few bucks on a door. It's about discouraging you and your friends from sharing a single room. Hotel sees the money they're leaving on the table and will trade you for it for the low price of watching your buddies do their business.

But how would you know until it's too late and you've already checked in? Doesn't seem to be a very effective way of achieving this... Just means my mate and I wouldn't go back to that hotel again.

Ask forithe manager and tell them you want a different room or a refund.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by anigbrowl »

ohhnoodont wrote: post #47
jakereps wrote: post #7

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I can assure you not even single people nor couples want doorless bathrooms.

Couples that poop together stay together.

Can you show off your toilet fetish on a more appropriate forum please

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by mothballed »

quickthrowman wrote: post #103
mothballed wrote: post #24

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Zoning does a lot of weird things. My zoning laws require me to put immediate hot water at every faucet. there is no code requiring it. There is zero safety issue.

It sounds like your local AHJ has adopted additional requirements above and beyond the Uniform Plumbing Code, this isn’t out of the ordinary but that seems excessive when a hot water recirculation pump on a time-of-day timer would be far more cost effective, it’s a $200 pump and an extra 20 feet of water supply line. Does someone in local government own a plumbing contractor or plumbing supply company? That’d be my g…

There's actually no plumbing code (checks) for my house. I could drop my poop right out the back of the house and pull my water through lead pipes from a mosquito swamp into my sink. As long as it is immediately heated it is fine. It is literally the only requirement.

My permit explicitly says they will check absolutely nothing but how far the house is from the property line and that I have immediate hot water.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by sbarre »

throitallaway wrote: post #34
autoexec wrote: post #12

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It's far more likely to discourage me and my friends from staying at that hotel entirely.

How many people consider what a bathroom looks like before booking a hotel room? I can't say I've ever done so.

I definitely do not return to a hotel where the bathroom was sub-par...

And likewise I absolutely return to a hotel where the bathroom was good when going back to a city.

I'm mostly talking about the water pressure for the shower here, but you get the idea.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by dgaudet »

meisel wrote: post #98

While we’re at it, bring back shower doors/curtains. It’s such a pain having this huge puddle outside the shower just because they decided it shouldn’t have one. It’s not so common to be missing one in US hotels, but it’s common internationally. Edit: apparently the virus has spread, and some US hotels now don’t have them

it has become unfortunately common in marriott hotels in the (western) US, specifically the current generation of residence inn; and i think i've seen it in new towneplace suites as well. it's entirely a form over function decision: you end up with cool air wafting in while you shower, and you end up with a wet bathroom floor (including a soaked floormat).

the same hotels have a kitchen sink tap which has hot/cold selected on the vertical axis, with no indication of which direction is hot/cold.

form over function. so annoying.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by shermantanktop »

tortilla wrote: post #102
olyjohn wrote: post #73

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Well, I still don't wanna make everybody in the room have to listen to my grunts as I push out an unhealthy binge-drinking hangover turd followed by a liter of flatulent gas and and liquid spraying into the bowl. I like my privacy, kthx.

AI can't generate this prose yet.

It just doesn’t want to produce it, and it’s holding it in. Maybe if you ask it try hard, it might finally release a backlog of text.
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