And in the UK a “cloakroom” is very rarely a place specifically to hang your cloak…
You’d be amazed how much bathing some people manage to do with just a sink.
You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.
Cursed comment, but I’ll add on to it: If you plug the door slit with a towel the whole room becomes your tub.
On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
Which is what makes it all that much more satisfying when the next person goes in
Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.
It is common in the US, frequently they will be listed as 2 & 1/2 baths if they have two with tubs and one without.
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
I always found the term 1/2 bath weird.
that’s some realtor math. they are known to magically inflate surface before you buy it, and shrink it back once you bought / rented it. Mathematicians can’t explain that !
And a room with a toilet, sink, and shower stall is a 3/4 bath.
Anything to avoid the metric system!
I’ve never heard of this before. I have what you describe as 3/4 bath, but it was listed as a full bath in MLS.
If you put a bedpan and a washbasin in your closet, it’s a 1/8 bath.
A litter box and some hand sanitizer in a wheelbarrow is a 1/16 bath.
I did real estate for 12 years and never came across the term “3/4 bath”.
Imagine getting a half bath but only the back half so you don’t even get a faucet
half a sink, half a toilet, half a shower.
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
They’d either list them separately or as a whole and then clarify. E.g. "two full- and two half-baths"or something like “four bathrooms - two full”
Whatever we call them, it’s always some euphemism hiding the fact tha it’s the pooping room.
We call it the poop stick room.
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Commonly called called a ‘powder room’ in australia.
I’m in the US and powered room is used in places I’ve lived. But on real estate listings it is common to call it 1/2 bath.
or “water closet” in the UK
It’s a way to conveniently talk about the number of bathrooms. You can say a house is “three bedroom, two and a half bath” and you convey that there are two bathrooms and one “washroom”.
What gets confusing are these large homes, or McMansions that list 5 bedrooms and 7 and a half baths. So are they listing 3 powder rooms at 1.5 baths? I can’t afford them, so I only see it online; but that part gets weird. I have seen descriptions that then list full and partial though.
Or 5 powder rooms and zero bathtubs
Sure, it could mean that, but I don’t think any could person would go to that conclusion.
The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.
Technically if it doesn’t have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)
Bath doesn’t refer to the tub, it refers to bathing. You can ‘sink bathe’ with a rag and running sink water.
So a half-bath, contains 1/2 of the common furnishings for bathing.
Good news! Most of the world would find that extremely weird (as with calling a room with no baths a bathroom). I think it’s due to the euphemism treadmill.
At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
We’d just call that room “the toilet”
And if you had half a bathtub, you could as well have no bathtub at all
If it’s fixed to a waterproof wall, it would work. Weird, but work.
in german that room is just called “das klo” (the toilet)
*Klo
thx, fixed the typo, dam phone keyboards being so small
If you chop a bathtub in half and place the parts in different rooms, you can have two half baths. If you bring four such parts in the same room, you’ll get a double bath. Probably still not very good for actually bathing, because a half tubs don’t hold much water.
We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.
By code a bathroom is a sink and any combination of a bidet, shower, tub, or toilet.
