I prefer the switch on the outside, as I have visions of hundreds of sweaty, wee covered hands rubbing against the uncleanable cord, but that’s just me and my OCD.
My last bathroom (in the UK) had an automatic light that was triggered by a motion sensor when you opened the door. With the one really annoying problem that if you sat still on the loo for too long (ahem), then the light would assume no one was there and turn itself off. Which would then involve waving my arms around with my trousers round my ankles.
No one’s there to see it. How does it affect your dignity? Unless you consider having to wave itself to be undignified. Do you keep your arms immobile out of a sense of dignity?
Following up on Floater’s thought, I have heard these things are sometimes called “widowmakers.” I did get a pretty strong shock in a Honduras hotel bathroom from one of these once – it was dodgily installed. But hey, I haven’t been depressed since!
I know a lot of people on here are very sceptical about electric showers, but seriously, the type that we have here in the UK are very safe.
I rememeber this thread expressing horror at the very idea of an electric shower, but I have never seen anything like the shoddy looking example in that OP. That looks like something installed at Auschwitz after the gas got cut off. :eek:
My electric shower looks like this. And here is what’s inside. It’s considerably more than just a couple of wires sticking into a shower head.
As a structural engineer who has designed hotels, I can elaborate on this a bit.
Building developers like the floor-to-floor height to be as small as possible because that way they can maximize the number of rooms while minimizing the cost of building construction. In hotels, the floor layout is conducive to having all the ductwork and piping in the hallways and bathrooms. In a hotel you can also get away with having a low ceiling in the bathrooms and hallways. So you build the hotel so that the underside of the structural floor is the ceiling of the room below (concrete flat plate construction, typically). This gets you the smallest floor-to-floor height possible. Then you build a lower ceiling in the bathrooms and hallways and run the ductwork and piping between the structural floor and the ceiling.
This doesn’t typically work for other building layouts because the room layouts are such that the ductwork and piping is all over the footprint of the building.
