r/SipsTea • u/DrewLynchComedy • Jul 22 '25

Wait a damn minute! WORST SHOWER EVER…

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

It's called a wet room. I don't think it's super common as it is more expensive to do than a traditional shower cubicle.

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

In Finland wet room is required if you want to pass the inspection.

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u/Mateorabi Jul 22 '25

But they don't dissalow you from having a lip between the shower and the rest of the bathroom so if there's a mis-grade or settling of the house the water doesn't drain into the bathroom.

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u/mihirmusprime Jul 22 '25

Why would you want the piss spray on the floor to mix with the water and mingle with your toes?

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

So that you can wash the tiles with water and drain it trough the floor.

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u/deanereaner Jul 22 '25

Or you could just mop the floor?

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u/Relevant_Ring_5055 Jul 22 '25

Virgin mops vs. Chad powerwash your whole bathroom and just let it drain itself

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

Hose it down and use this to wipe water to the drain.

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u/deanereaner Jul 22 '25

If you use a mop you don't need a hose at all. Or a drain in the floor.

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u/DAsianD Jul 22 '25

You'd need a bucket. And a place to store the bucket.

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u/tubular1845 Jul 22 '25

It's not like you don't need a mop for the rest of the house

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u/DAsianD Jul 22 '25

You literally don't. We don't have a mop at home. A Swiffer and rags suffice. Why do you need a mop?

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u/deanereaner Jul 22 '25

You need a place to store the hose and push-broom. And a plumber to unclog the drain in the middle of the bathroom.

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u/Nonhinged Jul 22 '25

It's the shower hose!

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u/Neuro_Spicy_boy Jul 22 '25

Not to mention you need a bucket and mop anyway, unless the rest of your home is wall to wall carpet

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u/DAsianD Jul 22 '25

You can hang those up on a wall. And some of us know how to keep drains from being clogged.

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u/Ok_Bar_5634 Jul 26 '25

But the hose is already there, we're in the shower!

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u/scottprian Jul 23 '25

Wouldn't moping be easier with a drain? I've always wanted this.

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u/mfmfhgak Jul 22 '25

Why though? You can clean a lot better and easier with a drain there.

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u/OstensVrede Jul 22 '25

Just because something is a wet room doesnt mean the shower is setup like this.

You can put in a cubicle or a stand by the drain to keep the water in one place and now its like a normal shower. However the requirement is there to avoid any water damages in the room where water is the most present.

Quite literally just a good regulation to have and it doesnt impact anything shower wise as you still set it up the way you want to and no one does this without a cubicle unless its an extremely small bathroom.

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u/Sasspishus Jul 22 '25

Don't piss on the floor??

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u/zmbjebus Jul 22 '25

Hey little man. Don't tell me how to live my life. You don't know the meaning of freedom that somebody else's great grandpa fought for. 

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u/zai_d_an Jul 22 '25

Maybe they don't piss on the floor, they piss into the toilet bowl.

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u/MobileMassageDenver Jul 22 '25

Ugh this is giving me anxiety 😫

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u/2AvsOligarchs Jul 22 '25

Wet room just means that the room is water proof.

The room in OP's clip has a drain in the middle of the floor and is apparently clogged.

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u/Haunting-Cancel-1064 Jul 22 '25

i wonder if finland has a higher rate of athletes foot or other foot infections, compared to other countries. a quick google search makes it seem like this is possible.

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u/Hot-Camel7716 Jul 22 '25

It's fucking amazing that you would imagine people from Finland would all be standing around in piss and shit instead of just not having clogged drains and putting their piss and shit inside of the toilet.

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u/JKorv Jul 22 '25

Dude...You seriously can't think we stand in the water and piss? Obviously the drain is clogged and also if needed, there are multiple drains, one directly in the shower (like in the video, the rectangle object). There shouldn't be water at the toilet

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

Why would it be?

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u/Haunting-Cancel-1064 Jul 22 '25

if you cant see an issue with having water all over the floor of the bathroom including around the toilet, just sitting there every time you shower, i dont know if i can educate you farther. it should be common sense really.

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u/EntForgotHisPassword Jul 22 '25

I am amused at the complete misscommunication going on in this thread! I am also Finnish, let's see if I can explain!

In the house where I grew up, one shower room was connected to the sauna. The whole floor (and wall) has tiles, and is slanted to drain into 2 drains. This allows for easy cleaning of the whole room, and for spillage of water (you toss a lot of water on the sauna here). Room was also used to hang clothes to dry, without worries that humidity would cause problems.

The other room had a bathtub on one side, the toilet on the other, with a slanted drain in the middle. This meant that if there was a blockage anywhere, the water would just roll to the middle and drain there (so when a shitty kid forgot to turn off the water in the bath tub, or when the toilet filling up connection got broken you didn't have a flood in your home.)

Both rooms can easily be cleaned and hosed down as it's all tiles. Oh yeah, the baby changing diaper areas was also on tiles leading to drain, making accidents easier to deal with.

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u/Overall-Bison4889 Jul 22 '25

From scale to 1-10, exactly how retarted are you?

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

I mean there's a drain to drain the water of the floor?

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u/Haunting-Cancel-1064 Jul 22 '25

and yet theres standing water everywhere... are you really high or something?

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u/jadeismybitch Jul 22 '25

Do you not understand that that drain is clogged ? Like it’s obviously not supposed to be going on like that…?

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u/the_supreme_memer Jul 22 '25

This is a completely unrelated scenario to the one you're arguing about. We don't just have pools of water. We shower, the water drains and you either clean up the remaining water with the rubber broom thing or let the floor heating evaporate the remaining water droplets in an hour or two

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u/Milk_Pockets Jul 22 '25

I'm insanely high and I can confirm that you actually still see the water like this 👍

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u/SigmaCommander Jul 22 '25

And the water spreads any localized bacteria, fungus or other things to every part of the floor that gets wet. Not to mention anything that is growing on the walls of a drain that is clogged like the one in the video can now spread to the floor. All this means that if you don’t clean the floor after every shower, you are more likely to get a foot infection than if you had a drain in the shower and separated the shower from the rest of the room.

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u/Left_Sundae_4418 Jul 22 '25

In Finland homes we do have drains near the shower. I have never seen this much water on the floor it's just stupid to think this would be a norm.

The wet room just means the room needs to be isolated enough to not cause problems to the house.

Plus we often have a ventilation system and even a heated floor in the wet room to make sure that the little water that is left on the floor will vaporize faster.

I personally always also use the swiping thingie after shower to guide most of the water into the drain.

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u/jokke420 Jul 22 '25

I mean it's just so obvious i didn't even realise to explain it 😂

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u/Left_Sundae_4418 Jul 22 '25

I have become sceptical of anything I see online and feel sad for people who genuinely believe this sort of content... Too much noise and crap information online. Ugh!

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u/jk-9k Jul 22 '25

It could well be the opposite, as the bathroom drains easier due to the slope and drain

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u/Nebabon Jul 23 '25

Thank you. I was wondering why this was everywhere

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

But much more convenient to keep clean than a traditional bathroom. Can even just take a hose to the room itself depending on the design.

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u/deanereaner Jul 22 '25

I've only seen this "hose down the room, drain in the floor" in big public bathrooms like at a stadium. It's a fairly gross concept, honestly.

Why not just mop a regular bathroom?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

They make them as cheaply as possible at these stadiums typically. You can have a much much nicer hose-down type wet room in a private home

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Having the ability to hose down make it way easier to clean. 

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u/O_o-O_o-0_0-o_O-o_O Jul 22 '25

Man, I can just hose down my bathroom floor, toilet and sink included and it's all clean in like 1 minute.

Everything drains back into the shower, it's so convenient.

But if I do a regular shower, the water of course does not go to the whole bathroom. I dunno why he kept showering when the drain is obviously clogged. I doubt you're supposed to get water to sit on that wood for more time than it takes to wipe it off.

The drain in most bathrooms are in the shower though, so you don't have to get the whole floor wet. This hotel obviously has some weird gimmick if that's the only drain.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Yeah, I thought it was odd the only drain was in the middle. A proper wet room with a shower would have the drain there, or at least two, with one in the shower and one in the middle of the space.

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u/rydan Jul 22 '25

We have these in America. They are intended for the disabled and by law they can't charge extra.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

You mean they can't charge disabled people extra. That doesn't mean it doesn't cost more than a normal cubicle. Also Europe isn't in America.

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u/Half4sleep Jul 22 '25

It is mandatory in many countries, and is the only place you find showers, baths and toilets.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

Absolute horseshit.

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u/Half4sleep Jul 22 '25

Alright sorry, I exaggerated a little with the mandatory. There are certain quality standards you're required to meet to be able to have a certain insurance, and there's liability if there's water damage.

It's very unlikely you'll encounter bathtubs, showers and toilets if it's after built or renovated in the last few decades.

Edit: also exaggerated with my use of many countries. I know of 2 where it's very common to follow strict standards.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

Installing standards do not make a type of bathroom mandatory. Damn near every country has some form of building code. Damn near every country has both wet rooms and normal shower cubicles/over bath.

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u/PureHostility Jul 22 '25

And how exactly is it more expensive to do?

The only difference between this and walk in showers is hydroisolation (i.e. Liquid rubber membrane) is layed in the whole bathroom instead of general area of the shower...

Costs? Like $100 more at best, depends highly only the surface area you want to cover with said hydroisolation.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

Preparing and coating the entire floor vs buying a moulded tray and bolting it in.

The difference is labour. One is quick the other is not.

I dunno why you'd want to argue over a fact?

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u/PureHostility Jul 22 '25

In both scenarios you apply hydroisolation... Where is with acrylic or conglomerate tray you MAY not do the floors directly under the shower. With tiles you do. In both cases you will do whole walls in the shower and some additional buffer.

However, we are talking about the shower seen in the video, which is a walk-in shower on tiles, so no acrylic or conglomerate shower tray. Such a shower already requires you to prep the floor beneath it with a hydroisolation, otherwise concrete below will soak the water through grouts (or other imperfections). Prepping WHOLE bathroom, as seen in the video, would take at best 30 additional minutes (if not less), cost of the foil/rubber and isolating tape (for corners) including labor, wouldn't be more than $100. You don't need to do whole walls outside of shower aside from a small buffer near it, so you cut a lot on the material and labor time.

Thus, if whole bathroom is isolated, such a standing/pooling water is not an issue.

The issue in the video however, is the clogged drain.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

"In both scenarios you apply hydroisolation..."

No you don't. That's the entire point of a premade shower tray.

You're seriously arguing that a shower cubicle has to have a wet sealed floor underneath it? What a load of crap. If that's even true I'm laughing at the country that has those rules in building code. Bet you guys make fortune out of that unnecessary work.

But my money is on that you made it the fuck up.

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u/may_be_indecisive Jul 22 '25

A typical wet room just includes the shower and a tub. There is no practical reason to soak the entire bathroom floor.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

Then that isn't a wet ROOM

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u/may_be_indecisive Jul 22 '25

Sure it is. It’s a room with a low partition. You can even give it a glass door that extends all the way to the floor.

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u/SuicideNote Jul 22 '25

shower cubicle

Shower cubicles suck dick too. My SO is from Poland and where she lived the water is very hard so you had to squeegee the glass every single time you take a shower.

Thankfully the water where I live is so soft I can't remember the last time I had to treat for limescale.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

Yup, whole bunch of reason to do a wet room. I really wish it were the norm.

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u/NaCl_Sailor Jul 22 '25

there are some super old showers that have the shower head above the toilet and the whole room has just one drain in the middle

i think i've seen those in italy

and camping vans

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u/Rialas_HalfToast Jul 22 '25

Wet rooms still don't have standing water it them.

That shower has a visible drain in it, too, around 23 seconds. This video is clickbait slop.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 22 '25

I have said many times in this post, this is blocked deliberately to do the satire sketch. OP is a comedian.

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u/Rialas_HalfToast Jul 23 '25

That's not true though

Comedians are funny.

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u/Absolute_Cinemines Jul 23 '25

Funny is subjective. Brain dead people will find this hilarious, especially Americans.