What possible reason...

[ambernectarine]

...did the previous owners of this house have for installing a hotel hairdryer?

You know, one of those beige units with the huge corrugated hose connected directly to the wall.

The bathroom is new enough to be a wet room with a waterfall shower head.

I have tried to rationalise it, but I keep arriving at the following conclusion:

No-one, with the requisite volume of hair to necessitate a hairdryer, would install one (presumably at considerable expense) with an output comparable to someone half-heartedly blowing in their direction.

For some reason this is keeping me awake, even 18m after moving in.

Why, Mumsnet?

For the avoidance of doubt, this.

Spot the namechange fail...

Installed by and for a bloke with little to no hair?

But why then? My DH has an enviably thick head of hair, but the fact it's a couple of inches long negates the need for drying - he just rubs it with a towel and lets nature take its course.

Worry not. It is a very small 'worry'.

You can have it taken out if you don't like it. Simples!

Oh FFS - how do you properly NC in the app?!

Because you can't have a standard plug socket therefore hair dryer in a bathroom. Wired in hotel style gets round the regs.

Possibly true in the bathroom, but not in any other of the rooms of the house. Plus if you were going to do it, wouldn't you do it in the en-suite to the master bedroom, rather than the wet room...?

The wet room where there is no mirror...

It must be so you can pretend to be on holiday or at the local swimming pool. Are there lockers too?

Rebecca oh no, I love it. It's such a wonderful novelty and part of me loves the mystery. The other part wants to solve it!

knapoli - no lockers, or storage of any variety, in that particular bathroom.

The beige marbled tiling definitely gives off the 'slightly grimy' vibe associated with communal facilities though.

Wetroom indicates that the person was disabled. My guess and purely a guess is it was used to dry their feet or some other part they struggled to reach. Or it might have been dry wheel chair or other equipment.

Are you sure it's a hair dryer and not a warm air body dryer? We were offered one when our bathroom was adapted into a wet room for my disabled dc, we declined as I had heard they were not particularly useful

No. Valera are a hair company.

It might be sold as a hairdryer doesn't mean its only for the hair on your head.

Thankfully only once have I needed assistance to shower, wash my hair, get dried and dressed. Haven't forgotten the nurse asking - Can you dry under your boobs?

Would stack up IF I didn't vaguely know the previous owners (friends of friends) and know them to be able bodied. Plus it's upstairs.

Guy I know has one, due to him being paraplegic it's the easiest way for him to dry himself.

I reckon the previous owner used it to dry his bawsack

It's no toilet phone

There were toilet phones in our bathroom in Bangkok....

Disappointed at the possibly sensible reason of being used by a disabled person.

I thought this thread might be the place to find an answer to why there were thirteen plug sockets, all bang in the middle of the walls, installed in the bedroom of a house a friend of mine used to live in some years ago.

Maybe previous owners thought it looked snazzy
Like a hotel feature

13 plug sockets has to be for some sort of seperates hifi system??

Perhaps they preferred drying themselves with the dryer than a towel. My DH always does this on holiday.

I think the ballbag theory has it.