• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s still code if your shower has a door. It’s not unusual to stick your washing machine in the bathroom, and even if you don’t, the toilet could always overflow.

    North America is really the only place I know of where bathrooms are not required to be waterproofed throughout.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, I’m saying they made it code because the doorless showers are the standard, not that putting door there would somehow invalidate the code.

      I come from another European country and the law only requires waterproofing the floor + wet areas (shower, around the bath etc.)

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        4 hours ago

        And I’m saying the code is there independently of doorless showers. The code was like that before doorless showers became common.

        In fact, if your shower has a door and the only drain is inside the shower, you are required to leave a gap under the door to allow water to flow into the shower.