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The toilet is the obvious one. Most modern apartments come fitted with a bidet-style attachment on the toilet. The settings are dependent on the make and model, but as a general rule, there are a handful of typical settings when it comes to the spray. The options will come with a range of settings to you can pick what suits. If you go to a public bath, you'll notice that when Japanese folks take a bath, they wash thoroughly in the shower before hitting the tub — it's the same at home.
It means that in the home, bath water can be used for multiple days, or by multiple people. The gadgets and buttons you see near the tub or outside the bathroom are often insulations systems for the baths to keep the water warm or to heat it again for later use.
It's also while you'll notice most tubs have a cover. It's an excellent way to conserve water and a new way to think about bathing entirely. Chances are in Japan your bathroom is small, with minimal shelving, or it's less of a bathroom in the traditional sense, and more of a large wetroom—washroom. Because of those reasons, there are a few products you might want to pick up to make life easier.
Shower caddy — If you don't have much shelving space, having a caddy or basket for things like loofahs, razors, shampoo and soap pump bottles, etc. Plastic slippers — These are for the toilet. Because you have to take your shoes off at the entrance of most homes and traditional style public spaces, most toilets will have a pair of communal plastic slippers to pop on in the name of hygiene and to prevent wet socks.
Stool — A stool for bathing is necessary if you have a wash area and tub style bathroom. Most people sit down when they shower, so many bathrooms are designed with that in mind.
Once you're finished with the stool, be sure to rinse it off. Slip pad — For washroom tub bathrooms, a slip pad is a handy little safety measure, it just prevents any mishaps when moving from the shower area to the tub or vice versa.
Of course I have to pay for the extra gas required for such a "luxury", but in winter my family can have a long bath, each enjoying a constant "hot" soak. It's great. The housing standard in the west is much better than in Japan. One reason is Japan's limited space, another is the Japanese people are not particularly wanting to live in luxury,.
This is one of the most disgusting thing about Japan. Do Japanese people think they don't sweat? You are washing your clothes in sweaty oilly water, it is certainly not clean and why I suspect some people stink on the morning train as they clothes smell like sweat socks. We had the water heater installed at my house after moving in. It runs on kerosene and is very efficient and cheap to operate. They wanted to install the temperature control panel in the kitchen.
I said no and had them put it by the shower door. Cause if the water is too hot or too cold while taking a shower, you don't want to be going back and forth to the kitchen to adjust it!
The best part about temperature control is that no one gets burned, especially children. The water never comes out scalding unless somebody set it to. And mixing scalding water with cold to get usable warm water has got to be one of the stupidest, most inefficient procedures known to man, not to mention being a complete pain in the butt and waste of time to accomplish. Glad to see the back side of that foolishness.
Now the water always comes out at a reasonable, if not perfect temperature, and its so much more efficient for not heating water only to cool it again. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who don't want to waste bathwater, but still I don't believe they use bathwater for rinsing, maybe only with detergent, otherwise it does not make sense. My bath reheats the same water. Computer does it.
Same fragrance added in is still there three days later. Watching American house-hunting shows, I'm always surprised when people show dislike for having the toilet separate from the rest of the bathroom "That's just weird," "That makes no sense! Most of them have probably never heard the word "water closet," from the days when this was standard.
As for washing clothes with bath water, most people use detergent duh , and do not use bath water for the rinse cycle, which uses fresh cold water. I really don't think it's an issue. Regarding the usage of bath water as laundry water, it's not gross at all.
A couple articles of clothing are going to have more dirtiness to them than the bath water. That's why you use soap, and that's why washers have rinse cycles. The idea that people stink because of this is ridiculous. And finally, I don't know about all baths, but in all the places I've lived, the temperature is maintained by pumping new water into the tub, not by reheating the water in the tub. Jeff: My Canadian home only had 1 bathroom for its 4 bedrooms and was small. I had to wait long stretches of time for family members to finish their bath to pee or wait for our water heater tank to have enough for a shower after someone took a bath.
I hated it and love my Japanese bathroom. As for using bath water for the laundry, it's only on the cycles that add soap. On my washing machine you can even choose to only use it for the first time the washing machine is filled with water and the second and final cycle will be fresh water. The final rinse cycle is always fresh water. Reusing bath water for washing machine us a good idea as mentioned above Japanese wash themselves BEFORE entering the tub so no sweat, soap, etc in the water.
As for multiple bathrooms very few IME. Strangerland In my case, I never heard of a tub that did anything but maintain the temp of the same bathwater and I cannot see how any other system could be regarded as efficient in terms of saving water, saving on the water bill, or saving on whatever source of heat one uses.
Throwing lukewarm water down the drain while heating cold water to hot and refilling with that Every tub I have seen old, I know had a pipe to siphon lukewarm water into the heater, another pipe to pump reheated water back in, and the only way to get water out of the system or the tub was through the drain by pulling the stopper out.
So a quick shower was out of the question. I know people who still have this system in their house. Add to this the fact that washing machines that can use hot water are almost non-existent and you have a country with some serious plumbing issues! Who cares if the toilet can sing you a song? Great points about no hot water available for the washing machine.
And I will also add to that that the fact that water pipes are usually outdoors up the wall and on the north side the least sunny side , meaning great potential for frozen pipes in winter. So lets not pretend like Japan is some plumbing paradise.
Further to this, I believe that no hot water in the washing machine may be a cause, a factor, or at least a reason for the persistence of, atopy in this country. I never saw anything like that until coming to Japan. My theories for this are that certain bacteria are not dying in the cold water and are reinfecting the wearer, and that harsh detergents such as borax are not being thoroughly dissolved, which weakens the skin, especially children's skin.
Of course this situation is only exasperated as I believe many Japanese housewives pinch pennies by skimping on the rinse cycle. Even more than that though, I believe that Japanese bathe their children in water that is much too hot! What that accomplishes is throwing off the balance of skin fauna. Basically good bacteria die and bacteria that is only harmless as long as kept in check wind up flourishing and harming the skin. And once the good bacteria is gone is hard to get back except by maybe by extreme amounts of skin contact with others Interesting to read people's comments.
It looks like my bathtub situation is outside of the norm, sorry. I looked up the system that I have and apparently it's somewhat unusual in Japan because all of our hot water is produced centrally. From thier website:. Varme is a central heating and hot-water supply system for apartment blocks. Hot water is produced in a heat source plant in the basement or on the roof of a building. This network system supplies hot water and heating to each family appartment in the building without the need for boilers or fuel in each appartment, making them safer.
Hot water is supplied 24 hours a day to each appartment. M3, it is the norm for other buildings as well not only your place. You can control the temperature of hot water in the washing machine by the same control panel for the bathtub. It is natural and good for people to aspire to better things and a better lifestyle and work towards it.
If everybody is thinking things like "I don't want betterment, I don't need luxury, I will make do with a poor existence" then it creates a downward cycle that will ultimately wreck the economy.
Modern mansions for example are more spacious, attractively finished and have superior fittings. Japanese people obviously do prefer a more luxurious lifestyle and housing companies are responding to that. All those dead skin cells and oily bodily fluid used to "wash" clothes?
No thank you. Wet rooms are great. So are washlet toilets. As are washing outside the bath, bathing in the same water, and reusing it for laundry. They push them really hard because they are easy to install in apartments where leaking on the apartment below is a big social no-no.
We have a wet room in our house, but it's lined with stone tiles and wood. The tub itself is a Japanese wooden one. The total cost was about the same as a mid range Toto unit bath system. Most builders will try to get you to choose the same as everybody else, but you can easily make a wet room out of natural materials if that is what you want. I'm sure we could all write volumes of the baths and toilets we've had in Japan.
My first apartment had no bath and shared toilets 2nd floor pottan benjo. The last house had the fully automated bath. Various things in between. I know two families who still use a goemon buro , one in its own separate outhouse. Very enjoyable if someone else is looking after the fire. Keeping the water cool enough is more of an issue than keeping it hot. I regret the Japanese mansion's comfort The truth is I never filled the tub in years as I would have been totally scared to bath inside that 'sanisette' browse for images if that doesn't talk to you.
So I just had quick showers inside the tub with the door wide open to limitate wetting and steaming, read below Every time I enter my sunny bathroom with its 2 windows, constant warmth due to proper heating, real shower, cool decoration wood, tiles, glass, paper I tell myself "So much better than those Japanese humid bunkers.
I've seen only 3 bathrooms with windows counting one that was an inaka outhouse ofuro , even when windows pre-existed in the building, they had blinded them. The bath water tends to be relatively hot, typically between 40 and 43 degrees. After soaking, leave the tub and clean your body with soap.
Make sure that no soap gets into the bathing water. Once you finished cleaning and have rinsed all the soap off your body, enter the bath tub once more for a final soaking.
After leaving the tub, the water is usually left for the next member of the house.
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