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.
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.
Hole in the ground next to a pile of wet leaves? That’s a 1/32 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”
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 !
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.
or “water closet” in the UK
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.
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.
Real estate term.
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.
Yeah, a “full” bathroom with just a shower also has zero bathtubs.
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.)
We’d just call that room “the toilet”
And in the UK a “cloakroom” is very rarely a place specifically to hang your cloak…
At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
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.
True, we should call it the “shit 'n rinse.”
Excuse, where’s the shitrinse located at?
Would you mind if I used your shitrinse?
Yeah I think it works.
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.
We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.
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You would have been fine if it was a Boston Whaler.
You’re right. It should be called a 2/3 bath instead.
Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.
Clearly you’ve never half-bathed in gas station restrooms while hitchhiking cross country. Hint: it doesn’t involve the toilet.
But I’m puzzled that a room with only one plumbing fixture is called a “quarter bath” regardless of whether that fixture is a sink, toilet or shower. Dat don’t make no sense.
So is this a good time to bring up Hillary’s email server? Cuz I thought merely using an improperly secured server was a super huge deal to conservatives, many of whom screamed treason and demanded prison for her. And I don’t think any vital information was ever actually leaked through it.
