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Combined Bathroom/WC, No Space for Wash Hand Basin???

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:19

Hey,

what does the above mean? Does it mean the toilet and bath are in the same room and there’s no space for a sink to wash your hands? I’m really confused. Has anyone come across this before?

thanks 😤

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Tacotortoise · 08/12/2023 14:23

No, and if it really means it's a bathroom with no hand basin then that's totally bizarre- you'd swap the bath for a shower and put in a basin wouldn't you?

On a separate note you do come across some very compact toilet/sink combinations in SE Asia sometimes. My sis had a tiny apartment in Japan for a month where the wet room was pretty much just a toilet w basin on the cistern and a shower over the whole lot.

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Tacotortoise · 08/12/2023 14:24

X posts - yes that!

Lonecatwithkitten · 08/12/2023 14:24

No idea, but you can buy loos where the sink is on top of the cistern so no matter how small a space you can get a sink in.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 08/12/2023 14:26

I really like those and am thinking of one for novelty value (and to save money I mean water)

Rudolphtherednoseddog · 08/12/2023 14:27

PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:19

Hey,

what does the above mean? Does it mean the toilet and bath are in the same room and there’s no space for a sink to wash your hands? I’m really confused. Has anyone come across this before?

thanks 😤

Combined bathroom/WC just means that the toilet isn’t in a separate room - there’s certain styles and vintages of houses where the bath and sink is in one room and toilet is in another. Surely the phrase “combined bathroom/WC” just means that this house has all in one room or they’ve knocked them together?

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:32

Thanks for all responses. The loos with the sink combined aren’t a bad shout. This is likely the option I’d go for if there’s no basin. I’ve just not come across a combined bathroom / WC with no basin. Not seen this before.

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Helenahandkart · 08/12/2023 14:33

I came across one of those combined sink toilets in a cafe the other day. It was really awkward to use because you had to lean across the toilet. It would hurt my back if I had to do that all the time.

titchy · 08/12/2023 14:41

PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:32

Thanks for all responses. The loos with the sink combined aren’t a bad shout. This is likely the option I’d go for if there’s no basin. I’ve just not come across a combined bathroom / WC with no basin. Not seen this before.

Is it actually room without a sink though? Or are you assuming that because they've called it a bathroom/wc? All i would take that to mean was that the loo wasn't in a separate room which is common in some (1930's?) houses.

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:43

@titchy It’s because it states no hand wash basin. So I thought it was referring to a combined toilet / bath but no sink to wash hands.

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 14:44

@Helenahandkart that’s something to consider isn’t it.

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Chasingsquirrels · 08/12/2023 14:46

The house I grew up in (built around 1980) had a WC room (small & narrow with door on short end and WC facing on the opposite short end) with no basin.
Next to this, along the long wall and looking from the hall with the door next to the WC room door, was the bathroom with a bath and sink.

I thought nothing of this as a child but thinking about it now it was ridiculous.
It would have been much easier not to have had the wall, given a bigger feeling overall space and put the WC and basin in the same room.

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 15:33

@Chasingsquirrels my aunt has a similar set up. It’s not unusual in the UK. However, I think they’re both combined in this case and there’s no sink as the space is so limited.

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Chasingsquirrels · 08/12/2023 15:35

Is this something you've read on online details? Are their any pictures?

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PurpleRayne89 · 08/12/2023 15:49

@Chasingsquirrels something I’ve read on a property description. No pictures.

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Sexlivesofthepotatomen · 08/12/2023 15:54

Not unusual in the UK? Never come across it myself

ThaTrìCaitAgam · 08/12/2023 15:58

My SIL used to live in an old building where the shower just hang above the toilet seat. Hope it isn’t something like that. 😬

lilyvictus · 08/12/2023 15:59

Chasingsquirrels · 08/12/2023 14:46

The house I grew up in (built around 1980) had a WC room (small & narrow with door on short end and WC facing on the opposite short end) with no basin.
Next to this, along the long wall and looking from the hall with the door next to the WC room door, was the bathroom with a bath and sink.

I thought nothing of this as a child but thinking about it now it was ridiculous.
It would have been much easier not to have had the wall, given a bigger feeling overall space and put the WC and basin in the same room.

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I used to live in a rented house like this (abroad) except that the loo had room for a basin, there just wasn't one, and the bathroom was along the hall and round the corner. So unhygienic, as well as baffling. I hated it!

ActDottie · 08/12/2023 16:11

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This was going to be my suggestion too, if there’s no room for a basin then get one of these.

SugarCookieMonster · 08/12/2023 16:16

Our first flat had a bathroom with just the toilet and bath, then outside the room in a little alcove was the sink. Super weird and we suffered through it until we could save up to re-do it.
Ended up having a shower enclosure instead of bath so we could fit a sink in the room.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 08/12/2023 16:19

I stayed in a trullo in Italy that had a tiny wet room. The sink was over the toilet cistern and the toilet pan folded back to give you room to shower. It was incredible, barely bigger that a shower cubicle but worked really well!

BarbaraofSeville · 08/12/2023 16:25

Well we have a tiny bathroom, the bath takes the full length of the wall one way and the walls the other way are only slightly longer and we have a sink.

I can't see how a bathroom would be made much smaller unless you had a weird conversion done on the cheap.

BIossomtoes · 08/12/2023 16:27

Sexlivesofthepotatomen · 08/12/2023 15:54

Not unusual in the UK? Never come across it myself

Loads of houses were built that way, from Victorian up to the 1970s.

EnterFunnyNameHere · 08/12/2023 16:30

I had a friend who had a main bathroom with bath, shower and sink and a separate room with just a loo (no sink). I found it beyond bizarre! Understand a separate WC to use when someone's in the bath, but if you can't get in there to wash your hands either it's not really solving the whole issue! Plus both were upstairs, the only other sink was downstairs in the kitchen! Weird!!