Clearly you’ve never half-bathed in gas station restrooms while hitchhiking cross country. Hint: it doesn’t involve the toilet.
But I’m puzzled that a room with only one plumbing fixture is called a “quarter bath” regardless of whether that fixture is a sink, toilet or shower. Dat don’t make no sense.
So is this a good time to bring up Hillary’s email server? Cuz I thought merely using an improperly secured server was a super huge deal to conservatives, many of whom screamed treason and demanded prison for her. And I don’t think any vital information was ever actually leaked through it.
On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.
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.
And a room with a toilet, sink, and shower stall is a 3/4 bath.
Anything to avoid the metric system!
I’ve never heard of this before. I have what you describe as 3/4 bath, but it was listed as a full bath in MLS.
If you put a bedpan and a washbasin in your closet, it’s a 1/8 bath.
A litter box and some hand sanitizer in a wheelbarrow is a 1/16 bath.
Hole in the ground next to a pile of wet leaves? That’s a 1/32 bath.
I did real estate for 12 years and never came across the term “3/4 bath”.
It’s been common knowledge since I bought my first house.
Imagine getting a half bath but only the back half so you don’t even get a faucet
half a sink, half a toilet, half a shower.
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”
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 !
Whatever we call them, it’s always some euphemism hiding the fact tha it’s the pooping room.
We call it the poop stick room.
Wafflestomp emporium
Commonly called called a ‘powder room’ in australia.
or “water closet” in the UK
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.
Powder room is where you store amino.
Maybe it’s a class difference thing but I’ve more commonly heard it referred to as “the shitter,” “dunny,” or “toilet.”
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”.
Or 5 powder rooms and zero bathtubs
Sure, it could mean that, but I don’t think any could person would go to that conclusion.
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.
Real estate term.
You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.
Cursed comment, but I’ll add on to it: If you plug the door slit with a towel the whole room becomes your tub.
And now I’m going to touch grass
Don’t forget to bathe after!
Bidet ftw.
You’d be amazed how much bathing some people manage to do with just a sink.
You’ve been to McDonald’s I take it
Probably around half?
The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.
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.)
At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
And in the UK a “cloakroom” is very rarely a place specifically to hang your cloak…
We’d just call that room “the toilet”
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.
in german that room is just called “das klo” (the toilet)
*Klo
thx, fixed the typo, dam phone keyboards being so small
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.
We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.
By code a bathroom is a sink and any combination of a bidet, shower, tub, or toilet.
