I’ve wondered for years and never thought to ask: if you have this kind of shower do you just accept that your bathroom floor is gonna get very wet?

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1. I’ve seen this bathroom setup a lot when looking at places. No shower curtain. Nowhere to hang a shower curtain. Not even any conceivable way to hang a place to hang a shower curtain. Do Germans have some secret to showering that makes this not a problem?

2. I installed shower curtains. But yes, shower cabinets are the superior form of bathroom.

3. I have a shower curtain

4. No, I would install a shower curtain, the bracket of which can be clamped to the edge of the bathtub.

5. Get a squeegee for the floor

6. Well, that’s the kind of problem you face when you build a bathroom in whatever space is available for it in an apartment that was never designed to have a bathroom. I’m guessing the left-hand wall was put in when the plumbing was installed, and that we’re looking at half a pantry, or half of the housemaid’s quarters; and now there’s no room for a modern shower unit.

   There are shower curtain rails that are fixed to the ceiling and wall; [something like this, for example](https://media01.living4media.com/largepreviews/Mzc5NDYxNjM4/12240698-weisse-Badewanne-mit-Duschvorhang-in-modernisiertem-Altbau.jpg). Or [this interesting design](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Badewanne_mit_Duschvorhang_P4580383.JPG/1200px-Badewanne_mit_Duschvorhang_P4580383.JPG) which is certainly much easier to install, but I imagine a pain to actually use.

7. Extendable telescope bars is the answer.

8. I bought the U shaped shower rail from Ikea to put in mine (it also can be setup to be L shaped if that works for your bathroom layout.

   The curtain never touches me as it’s already touching the bath and has the heavy shower stream pelting it into the bath, and its only wide enough to just make it round the bend leaving the rest of the way down the bath free of curtain. It works perfectly and my floor hardly gets wet, only spot it does get a light spray is where our large Bathmat goes so there’s never really any water on the floor.

9. Yes. Put a towel on the floor.

10. You either install a shower cabin like this: https://www.amazon.de/MIQU-Badewannen-Faltwand-Duschwand-Duschabtrennung/dp/B01M8PXZKK/ref=asc_df_B01M8PXZKK/

    Or a shower curtain like this: https://www.badundbaden-shop.de/duschvorhangstange-fuer-badewanne-von-burschberg-edelstahl-massiv-l-form-170×75-cm.html

    Or you just shower sitting down.

11. Are bathrooms typically this small?

12. In America we use shower curtains

13. never heard of shower curtains? 😂

14. No, if this is your only bathroom you install a curtain or a cabin

15. The floor does look like it could do with a clean TBH.

16. What do you mean? These are waterproof so you just flood the whole room to get some more leg room.

17. Looks like the actual shower is missing. Are you planning to take your showers standing upright in the tub?

18. No Germans are naturally hydrophilic so it all just collect around our body and then goes smoothly down the drain

19. Yes

20. You just put a little mat down to stand on and dry yourself with a towel before leaving the tub?

21. you are lucky to have a window in your bathroom 😉

22. The Electric work around the lamp does make me nervous

23. My parents have a bathroom like this and whenever I’m there I just sit down or crouch in the bathtub. I never knew it differently, so it is not that hard for me to not make a flood. I bet you’ll learn it in no time or just install a shower curtain.

24. I’m asking myself the same everytime I see it. My solution to minimize flooding of the bathroom is just squatting in the bathtub while showering, a rather awkward experience.

    Since I’ve never been able to actually watch other people using it, the motives behind such a setup remain a mystery.

25. Put up a curtain or an acrylic wall

26. I think this type of shower is called a bath tub.

27. There are actually rent law court rulings where the room became too wet, causing problems and it was decided that it is reasonable (zumutbar) for the occupants to be sitting during the showering

28. People with that setup often shower while sitting g down in the tub. If you are careful it’s possible to shower while standing. This, however, usually only works you you hold the shower head in your hand while showering.

29. The problem is also that the tiles don’t go up to the ceiling. So some rental agreements specify that tenants can only use the shower sitting down, even though I think nowadays such provisions should be unenforceable…

30. #dumbtrends

31. I had a similar setup in my old apartment and bought a ‘shower wall’ for it. Doesn’t stick to you like a shower curtain would and helped alot. Maybe you could invest into something like that.

32. We have a shower curtain. Wasn’t pleasant to install it (our shower has weird measurements) but I’m happy it’s there

33. No, you just install a shower curtain or screen.