Sometimes I get very wet in my special places...

[c9]

Home ownership is fun!

No really. Except our shower is leaking. After every shower there's a puddle on the floor, and I thought it was just the substandard IKEA* shower curtain, but it turns out there's a real live leak. Somewhere in the wall between user input and water output. The drywall is spongy and wet, and the water's coming out a spot that is not designed to output water.

We had always planned to rip out the bathroom and make a better one. Looks like it's happening sooner than we thought. My parents did this walk-in shower thing at their place in Ottawa that we liked, so we're considering it for here. The diagram is not to scale or anything -- think regular tub length but double width.

Google SketchUp, by the way, is very cool. I made this in about three minutes:



I don't know who that woman is. Probably a local student. She came with the software. She will not be allowed to use the shower.

If you were buying a condo, would an unusual bathroom shower scare you off?


* Yes I just said that.

Comments

[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

do you have an unusually long shower?

[c9.livejournal.com]

I think we might. Because we used clear plastic IKEA shower curtains in other bathrooms and didn't have this problem.

Or perhaps we used Zellers clear plastic shower curtains and I didn't notice the size difference.

[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

maybe it is longer. 'cause it fits fine in my bathroom.

although, i live in manhattan and everything is smaller here...

do you have a liner? is that the same length?

[c9.livejournal.com]

We have two IKEA curtains -- the clear plastic one on the inside, and a colourful cloth one on the outside. They're the same width and height.

[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

i think you're shower's too long.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I will advise the committee of your recommendation.

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

I'd guess unusually long shower -- I'm pretty sure shower curtains are a standard 72" square. Then again, I have a faint recollection of someone else saying that they had to return their IKEA shower curtain because it was too small -- maybe making them only 63" square is how they pass the savings on to you. :-).

[c9.livejournal.com]

63" sounds more correct than 72", but I don't have it with me to check. :)

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

Didn't Douglas Adams say that you should never leave home without your shower curtain? :-).

[c9.livejournal.com]

He would never say something so absurd.