Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles

So how do you charge your laptops or tablets? ;)
I remember, when I arrived in UK for the first time, friends immediately asked me could you help us to instal socket in our bathroom?


In Poland residual-current circuit breakers are mandatory in new buldings and many people install RCDs in older houses even RCD and new cables are quite expensive.

Usually people don't use the washing machine when in the bath or shower.

Same here in the US, in bathrooms and kitchen countertops, or anywhere near water like swimming pools, it must be a GFCI receptacle.

RCD=GFCI its the same thing.

Did they want their washing machine in the bathroom then?:) I really can't imagine a stranger place to have a washing machine tbh!

Me neither.


The same with me.


And I can't imagine a stranger place to have a washing machine than a kitchen :)
It wouldn't even cross my mind to put it there o_O Bathroom seems so much more natural...

So far from the washing line in the garden.

We're posting in the wrong thread Paulina! This should be in Pawian's Clash of Cultures:)
Just doesn't make sense to me to have electrical appliances in close proximity to water.

LOL Indeed :))


There's water in the kitchen too - sink where you're washing your dishes.
I have electric sockets in my bathroom as high as my face and they're on the opposite wall from where the bathtub is so I don't see a problem, to be honest :) And I'm usually drying my hair in the bathroom.

I can understand washing machine in the kitchen but only when there's lack of space in the bathroom.


+1


Exactly.


The same in my apartment.

Where do you take off your clothes?In the bathroom.It's easier to have the basket,and washing machine in the same place.

Exactly :)

Some appliances (like water pumps) need to be immersed in water ;)


:)
They missed their beauty-appliances badly (hair dryer, hair straightener etc)

I have friends in Poland who have a shower in their kitchen.

I think the sh1tter should be as far away as possible from kitchen and sitting room, which is very often not the case in Poland. Then again they don't have a Guinness drinking culture here.

I've seen flats & houses with bogs leading off the living room. With holes in the bottom of the door. You can hear everything.

And what's with the bathroom window thing? There are even detached houses that don't have them.


And do you have a stove in your bathroom, to boil your knickers on?

No,I don't boil them (wrong material for boiling).And the washing machine has boiling programme.

Aah, bless! Did it not occur to them to run an extension lead into the bathroom? Still dangerous with all that water about, plus possibility of tripping over cable makes for a not terribly safe combination, but hey! as long as hair looks good, that's the most important thing:):)

In the UK, we dry our hair in the bedroom ( usually )


This does seem logical, but it's hardly an expedition to walk to the kitchen!


True, but one would hope most people aren't dopey enough to keep electrical appliances near to sinks.
In bathrooms, i suppose there is a risk of water from the shower coming into contact with electrics.
Wonder if there are any statistics for electrocutions in bathrooms?:):)

yea it's a nightmare, beyond comprehension. When in a friends place(like this),the next morning; must go to McDonald's for a dump.

The sockets are in wall I have no idea how anyone can flood them. Probably if you sprinkled it with a few drops of water nothing would happen since the circuit must be closed. Besides that Polish electrical sockets look differently than British/American. Unless you have a rabbit in your house eating the cables and make a great mess in bathroom I see no possibilities of being electrocuted.

Besides that some bathroom sockets have lids

It's probably to let in some light (mostly in blocks).But they are the kind that make it imposible to peer inside.I'm so used to them I don't even notice.

The plague is carbon monoxide poisonings. If there ever happened electrocution (barring suicidal attempts) certainly we could hear it on tv news.

It wouldn't be the sockets i'd be too worried about, it's appliances plugged into them coming into contact with water e.g spray from the shower, and a plugged in hairdryer.

What water? You make it sound like bathroom is a pool full of water ;) My bathroom is dry, I don't get it...


How can you trip over a cable to a hair dryer or hair straightener? lol


Hey, that's rather unfair and petty :)


I sometimes do that too.


It's not only about that - it's just weird to have your washing machine in the kitchen :)


Yup.


All you need is some basic common sense. Don't put your hairdryer in a bathtub full of water and I think you should be OK lol

I and all people I know have lived with washing machines in our bathrooms, drying our hair in our bathrooms all our lives and somehow we all live lol Really, we do, it can be done, apparently ;)

Unless they are adrenaline junkies.

The only period when my washing machine wasn`t in the bathroom happened in the US, indeed.

I think you've misread the post. I mean bathrooms without windows.

I've always had a laundry room. I find the wsshing machine in bathroom extremely strange. As a social ecperiment I am now going to go ask the wife and kids what they think of putting it in the bathroom. I think it will be funny lets see.

OK this is all about old style culture......I do not blame anyone for doing what their parents and grandparents did.....but two things will happen, 'building regulations' and safety will start to get into bed together in Poland, then there will be no plugs in bathrooms. Newer houses will be like mine and will have a laundry room built on, maybe next to the kitchen on the way to the storage room and then the garage. As well as 'regulations' driving this, young wealthy or progressive Poles who have travelled, will not want to live in communist style apartments, they will build their houses in a Polish style but with the things added that they have seen on their travels. Like mine they will even have a dressing room, yes Lenka you or maybe your children? will have a dressing room off your bedroom where you store all of your clothes and get dressed and undressed, in the opposite corner to the big dressing mirror (two if you have a partner), you will have a basket that can be easily carried to the laundry room.......the future is here in my house, I hope it comes to yours sooner rather than later. Ps. I,m going to start a thread about balconies without safey rails???? another Polish thing.

In my old house in Poland, we used to have a laundry room, where our washing machine stood. Then, I lived in an apartment, the machine was in the kitchen, built into the kitchen counter. I brought in a dryer and put it in the kitchen as well, although it was kinda in the way and nowhere near the washing machine. Now that I moved to an apartment in the U.S., we have a separate laundry room, used by everyone in the apartment block.

Most of my polish friends have washing machines in their bathrooms.

Well... in my kitchen in the UK (rented as furnished) the washing machine is right next to the sink, and the sink is about half a meter away from the stove (electric BTW). The kitchen is big, but both appliances are crammed right there with the sink in one corner. Come to think of it, most English kitchens I have seen have this predilection for sink-fridge-washing machine-stove combos.

Get off your high horse, y'all. You do it one way, we do it another. We are all alive to tell the tale. This whole discussion is truly pointless!

I respoded to milky answer to your post.


I doubt that.I never heard of anyone electrocuted in their bathroom.


Laundry room is a different matter.In my apartament I don't have enough space for a laundry room.


Communist style?What communist is there in having your washing machine in the bathroom?


I do have a basket that can be easily carried.I just don't have to carry it :)


Safety rails?You mean just rails or some special kind?

maybe in the middle of nowhere
certainly not in civilised parts

where are these mythical balconies?