To not stay in bathroom when running a bath

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DH says everyone should stay in the bathroom when running a bath incase it overflows and floods the bathroom. This has never happened by the way.

AIBU to not stay in the bathroom for 10 minutes and busy myself with other things or is DH right and I am being wreckless and lazy to walk away from a running bath?

I have never stayed in a bathroom to run a bath. How quickly does yours fill up😂?

If you know how long it takes then no need to stay. My bath takes ages to fill so I go off and do something for a while. Otherwise I’d be stood staring at it for 10 minutes.

Sometimes I can’t be arsed waiting around or pottering round so I get in and watch Netflix on my phone while it’s filling up. But no, how boring to stand and wait!

I’ve never stayed in bathroom and have never flooded the bathroom.

I wait. I take my phone but mostly I do things like teeth and face cleanse.

I go in the bath as soon as it’s over two inches deep while it runs. I realise this makes me quite strange but I just need to take advantage of any minute I get on my own. If I left it run I’d come back and one of the DC would have claimed it!

DH (who is the one who has twice caused a flood) has timed our bath filling and sets a timer. I have a reasonably good sense of time, so don't bother, but I think there's much to be said for his method.

I stay in the bathroom but only to stop my husband or children from pestering me for something.

40 years of running my own bath never overflowed it.

It's not reckless to step away for a short time. My bath is tiny, but even that takes ten minutes. Don't do it if you are likely to forget about it though.

I don't. The bathroom is downstairs, so I can keep half an eye on it while doing other stuff. Also, it's never overflowed so far, even when I did forget about it. And if it did overflow - it's on the ground floor. It would be messy, but not a disaster there's no ceiling or room below for it to go through.

No, don’t stay in bathroom, although generally in room nearby.

Nope, I usually go off to do other stuff. Unless the toddler is roaming but even then I’d probably just close the door!

Generally i stay in as also get in whilst its running , my 17 year old a couple years ago left bath running and sat on his bed drifted off , first i realised was when it was raining in the kitchen

I didn't know you could let the bath overflow. That's what the overflow hole is for, to let excess water out of the bath without causing any damage.

Yes but DH says the overflow could fail and as PP says it did infact leak through the ceiling.

Our bath is huge and takes forever. I do other things but do pop in and out to check on it.

I did once overflow a bath in a rented flat. The water flowed through the ceiling and wrecked the whole house. The bath had no escape pipe (not sure of it’s real name) though.

I left it for about 15/20 minutes I think. It was a long time ago. 10 minutes might be just about ok.

Hmm, I can see myself using your husband's statement to get 10 minutes to myself while running a bath for our young children. "Sorry DH; you'll have to watch them while I run the bath"

Did he actually call you wreckless and lazy? 😂 he sounds dramatic!

I don't stay in the bathroom but do stay close by and tend to do things upstairs.
I'd not leave it totally unattended for a while because I'd be likely to stop paying attention to how much time has passed, however most people are probably more observant than me.

Never let a bath overflow in my entire life. However I once let someone stay in my flat while I was away and he not only overflowed the bath, but also used my towels to mop up the water and left them sitting damp on the floor for the several weeks between him leaving and me returning. I was not impressed.

I was dating a guy I REALLY liked and went back to his house one night after a night out. I was rather hammered and accidentally left the tap in the bathroom on and it flooded the whole kitchen (next to the bathroom on the ground floor) and we didn’t notice for about an hour. By the time we went to get a drink from the kitchen the water was ankle deep and I was so embarrassed I tried to get to the tap to turn it off but hadn’t realised that that much water in lino tiles basically turned the long kitchen in to a giant slip n slide. So I skidded along the length of it, slipped right over, soaked myself and also let out a huge fart at the same time. Mortifying.

Let that be a cautionary tale of why you should always ensure taps are off.

I don't, but make my DD (15) stay in the bathroom after she went into a teenage daydream on her bed and flooded the kitchen. Those of you assuming the bath overflow can cope with both taps running are very wrong

I stay in the bathroom as there is always a risk that one of my boats may get dangerously close to the running tap and be overwhelmed and sink.

I know some will say put the boats in once the bath is at the correct level but that would just not be the same. I like the element of risk and trying to steer them away from the 'massive waterfall' with only the aid of a bath-brush.

I can't be the only person who is like this on Sunday bath night - but then again maybe I am.