I lived in Houston 1982 - 1987. The first house we rented (Lockshin
Drive, west of Hwy. 6) had an odd feature that I've wondered about
ever since:
The master bath had a bathtub and a separate shower enclosure. The
shower had a regular shower head at the normal height. But it also
had a bathtub spigot below the shower head. The spigot stuck out of
the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
WTF? What's it for?
-Zz
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:56:44 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
>the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
>WTF? What's it for?
How about running the water until if was of a suitable temperature.
Maybe filling some container or something similar? Although, I do have
to agree, 2" seems pretty weird.
Dave <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:56:44 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
>>the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
>>WTF? What's it for?
>
> How about running the water until if was of a suitable temperature.
> Maybe filling some container or something similar? Although, I do have
> to agree, 2" seems pretty weird.
>
>
>
That's just enough space to get your toe under it. It might be so that
people don't have to move anything or close a door while the shower warms
up. (Could be a couple minutes with the football fields of pipe some
builders seem to put between water heater and fixture.)
Can't be to protect the user from burns, because a burnt toe is going to
be worse than a burnt hand. You don't have to stand on your hand. (And
if your water heater is hot enough to burn you, it's way too hot.)
Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.
"Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>>Cleaning only your feet.
>
> Just your toes?
It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to put one
in. I know it to be called a toe-tester, rather than standing in a cold
water shower, you run the water until your toes/foot feels it is warm enough
to engulf your whole body with water. However, they are normally installed
about 10 to 12 inches above the shower bottom to allow a pail to be filled
for house cleaning, allowing the spout to be used for double duty. 2 inches
is way too low, the installer probably plumbed it in before the shower base
was installed and only measured from the sub-floor, but that would not make
it high enough for pail filling. They didn't think it out.
On 2/24/2013 7:37 PM, Bill wrote:
> G.W.Ross wrote:
>> On 2/24/2013 6:17 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>> EXT wrote:
>>>> "Zz Yzx"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just your toes?
>>>>
>>>> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to
>>>> put one in.
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm... I've lived more than a few places across the country and
>>> never saw
>>> anything like that. Visit people on a fairly regular basis, across the
>>> country, and have never seen anything like that. Spent more time in
>>> hotels
>>> all across the country and have never seen anything like that. I
>>> guess they
>>> must be common in some places since people like you seem to
>>> understand their
>>> purpose, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are fairly standard
>>> across
>>> North America, in any way.
>>>
>>
>> Same here.
>
> Some might enjoy this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeyAys6FUIg
>
Wow even the instruction sign shows washing your feet with it.
On 2/24/2013 12:56 PM, Zz Yzx wrote:
> I lived in Houston 1982 - 1987. The first house we rented (Lockshin
> Drive, west of Hwy. 6) had an odd feature that I've wondered about
> ever since:
>
> The master bath had a bathtub and a separate shower enclosure. The
> shower had a regular shower head at the normal height. But it also
> had a bathtub spigot below the shower head. The spigot stuck out of
> the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
>
> WTF? What's it for?
>
> -Zz
>
Cleaning only your feet.
On 2/24/2013 1:19 PM, Puckdropper wrote:
> Dave <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:56:44 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
>>> the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
>>> WTF? What's it for?
>>
>> How about running the water until if was of a suitable temperature.
>> Maybe filling some container or something similar? Although, I do have
>> to agree, 2" seems pretty weird.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That's just enough space to get your toe under it. It might be so that
> people don't have to move anything or close a door while the shower warms
> up. (Could be a couple minutes with the football fields of pipe some
> builders seem to put between water heater and fixture.)
>
> Can't be to protect the user from burns, because a burnt toe is going to
> be worse than a burnt hand. You don't have to stand on your hand. (And
> if your water heater is hot enough to burn you, it's way too hot.)
>
> Puckdropper
>
I live in Houston and typically that normal bath tub spigot/bib was 6~8
inches from the floor of the shower. In those cases it was to wash off
your feet.
Zz Yzx wrote:
> I lived in Houston 1982 - 1987. The first house we rented (Lockshin
> Drive, west of Hwy. 6) had an odd feature that I've wondered about
> ever since:
>
> The master bath had a bathtub and a separate shower enclosure. The
> shower had a regular shower head at the normal height. But it also
> had a bathtub spigot below the shower head. The spigot stuck out of
> the wall a 3-4", but was only ~2" above the floor.
>
> WTF? What's it for?
>
You don't have much contact with Mohammadens I take it?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:37:13 -0500, Bill <[email protected]>
wrote:
>G.W.Ross wrote:
>> On 2/24/2013 6:17 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>> EXT wrote:
>>>> "Zz Yzx"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just your toes?
>>>>
>>>> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to
>>>> put one in.
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm... I've lived more than a few places across the country and
>>> never saw
>>> anything like that. Visit people on a fairly regular basis, across the
>>> country, and have never seen anything like that. Spent more time in
>>> hotels
>>> all across the country and have never seen anything like that. I
>>> guess they
>>> must be common in some places since people like you seem to
>>> understand their
>>> purpose, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are fairly standard
>>> across
>>> North America, in any way.
>>>
>>
>> Same here.
>
>Some might enjoy this:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeyAys6FUIg
Hell, I prefer half-nekkid wimmens to wash my feetses and feed grapes
to me. It's called "foreplay", innit?
A toe-bidet? What'll they think of next?
--
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because
we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable,
when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
-- Susan Rice
EXT wrote:
> "Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>
>> Just your toes?
>
> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to
> put one in.
Hmmmmm... I've lived more than a few places across the country and never saw
anything like that. Visit people on a fairly regular basis, across the
country, and have never seen anything like that. Spent more time in hotels
all across the country and have never seen anything like that. I guess they
must be common in some places since people like you seem to understand their
purpose, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are fairly standard across
North America, in any way.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
G.W.Ross wrote:
> On 2/24/2013 6:17 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> EXT wrote:
>>> "Zz Yzx"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>>>
>>>> Just your toes?
>>>
>>> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to
>>> put one in.
>>
>> Hmmmmm... I've lived more than a few places across the country and
>> never saw
>> anything like that. Visit people on a fairly regular basis, across the
>> country, and have never seen anything like that. Spent more time in
>> hotels
>> all across the country and have never seen anything like that. I
>> guess they
>> must be common in some places since people like you seem to
>> understand their
>> purpose, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are fairly standard
>> across
>> North America, in any way.
>>
>
> Same here.
Some might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeyAys6FUIg
On 2/24/2013 6:17 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> EXT wrote:
>> "Zz Yzx"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>>
>>> Just your toes?
>>
>> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to
>> put one in.
>
> Hmmmmm... I've lived more than a few places across the country and never saw
> anything like that. Visit people on a fairly regular basis, across the
> country, and have never seen anything like that. Spent more time in hotels
> all across the country and have never seen anything like that. I guess they
> must be common in some places since people like you seem to understand their
> purpose, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are fairly standard across
> North America, in any way.
>
Same here.
--
GW Ross
The world owes you nothing. It was
here first. -- Twain
On 2/24/2013 2:34 PM, EXT wrote:
>
> "Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> Cleaning only your feet.
>>
>> Just your toes?
>
> It is fairly standard all across North America where they think to put
> one in. I know it to be called a toe-tester, rather than standing in a
> cold water shower, you run the water until your toes/foot feels it is
> warm enough to engulf your whole body with water. However, they are
> normally installed about 10 to 12 inches above the shower bottom to
> allow a pail to be filled for house cleaning, allowing the spout to be
> used for double duty. 2 inches is way too low, the installer probably
> plumbed it in before the shower base was installed and only measured
> from the sub-floor, but that would not make it high enough for pail
> filling. They didn't think it out.
>
>
>
Where are you from? I have only seen a few. Certainly not fairly
standard in North America. Testing the water temp with your toe/foot is
ridiculous, why not simply feel the shower with your hand??? LOL