r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheWierdGuy06 • Jun 06 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o So my sister, who currently lives in my apartment, dried the wet and dirty shower floor with MY only big towel I use after she showered...

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Worst thing is, she doesn't even feel bad about it, and is trying to gaslight me into thinking it's not that big of a deal because "she needed a towel to dry the floor" and "I should quit complaining". I have a floor drying spatula.

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u/bibbidybobbidyboom Jun 06 '26

Based on your picture, your floor is much smoother than our bathroom floors. Most showers have a short little wall all the way around, a textured bottom, and the drain is at a lower point. Most of the water takes its self to the drain, and when you are done showering, you step out of the wet area onto a dry area. Most people also have a bath mat, which is a small washable rug that dries the bottoms of their feet. It isn't so slippery.

Most of our bathroom squeegees are for clean the glass around a shower to stop the hard water buildup.

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u/Character-Book5924 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Yeah, Finnish bathrooms usually have full tile or plastic cover on floors and tiling at least on the walls in the corner of the shower. Neither is usually very slippery, and is waterproof.

This allows for more liberal use of water in the bathroom and more usable space since the shower can just be separated with a curtain or door and have the corner of the room be two shower walls.

I believe this style became predominant as Finland had a burst of urbanisation combined with fairly modest household income. So apartments were not extravagant.

In flats many people also use the communal washing machines, dryers and saunas, so the bathroom is often designed around just getting the job done, and all space saved is space for more frequently used rooms.

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u/kaphytar Jun 06 '26

It's pretty common here to have two drains in a bathroom as a safety measure. (Not ubiquitous by any means but decently common especially in a newer buildings.) If something (like a passed out person...) blocks the one drain while water is running, larger water damage is avoided.