Comment on Do really large people need special bathtubs/showers to keep water from getting everywhere?
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing to do with being fat. Some people have zero idea how a shower works. You need to put the liner IN the tub area and the decorative curtain outside the tub. Many people push them both outside the tub. Now all the water that splashes around hits the liner and drains right onto the floor and not into the tub.
The amount of water splashing makes no difference if you’re big or small. Pressurized water hitting you is going to bounce all over. Since you’re taking a shower, that’s the goal.
If I had to guess, the curtain is wrong, he has no idea because nobody has ever told him and the bathroom is terribly non water tight so splashing will go down through the floor. Even tile is not waterproof nor is grout.
It’s why I always specify a waterproof membrane and floor drain but it’s not common in US/Canada yet.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had some flatmates in college who didn’t know the difference between the waterproof liners and the decorative ones and kept buying decorative ones and wondering why the floor was getting wet. I told them they needed two, but noooo they weren’t idiots they got into college (narrator: they were idiots). I think one dude musta spent a hundred bucks on liners before listening to me.