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Ignatius J
Citizen
Username: Ignatius_j
Post Number: 154
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 8:15 pm: |     |
I was just looking through the Real Estate section and there's always been a question that I never knew the answer to and that is: What constitutes a full bathroom as far as Real Estate is concerned? Is it a toilet, tub and sink? Does a bathroom with a shower and sink but no toilet only count as a half bath? What about a bathroom with just a toilet and sink? The possibilities are endless!!! :-)
And on a side note, I also noticed that a house here in Maplewood sold a hundred thousand dollars over asking price!!! Yowza!!! |
lah
Citizen
Username: Lah
Post Number: 171
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 8:22 pm: | |
A full bath includes either a shower or a tub. A half bath does not (just a toilet and sink). And you don't get extra credit for having a shower and a tub (i.e., a bath is either 1 or 1/2, but not 1 1/2). |
Ignatius J
Citizen
Username: Ignatius_j
Post Number: 155
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 8:57 pm: | |
So, a full bath doesn't need a toilet??? |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 710
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 9:02 pm: | |
Ha ha. Unlike in some parts of Europe, you aren't going to see a bathroom around here without both a toilet and a sink. That constitutes a half bath; adding actual bathing facilities makes it a full bath. Occasionally I have seen a bathroom with a shower but no tub referred to as a 3/4 bath, but I don't think that that is standard terminology.
Bathroom proliferation means that sometimes a house has more than one half-bath. Two halves do not, in this case, make a whole. I have seen real estate ads moving to saying "3.2 baths" meaning not three-and-two-tenths but three full and two half. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 120
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:11 am: | |
What do they categorize the single toilet that is in my basement? No sink....no tub....no shower. It's like an outhouse. We're glad to have the extra toilet, but it's just so weird... |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4331
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:29 am: | |
I think the real estate people ignore the basement toilets. The 3.2 designation mentioned by Kathy keeps the confusion down because two half baths don't equal on full bath. |
marian
Citizen
Username: Marian
Post Number: 70
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:01 am: | |
Ignatius J,
In what day/section did you see that Maplewood listing in the Times? I can't find it but am dying to see it! |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 431
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:19 pm: | |
LilB
They designate that as a sh*tter.
:-) |
gj1
Citizen
Username: Gj1
Post Number: 12
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:25 pm: | |
uh...we have a small bathroom with only a toilet on the main floor. We call it the quarter bath  . Someday it will get upgraded to a half. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 867
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:42 pm: | |
Actually, I always heard the basement toilet referred to as "the Maplewood throne." |
Ignatius J
Citizen
Username: Ignatius_j
Post Number: 157
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 6:41 pm: | |
<<in>.
Actually, it wasn't in the Times it was in the mail. For some reason we get these Real Estate updates from Weichert Realtors that list all the properties that were sold every quarter in case "Our Real Estate Needs Change This Year" we'll know who to call and for the most part the houses sent for an average of 20k below asking but a few went for 20k over and some right at asking but that was just one of the glaring exceptions. |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 425
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 8:03 pm: | |
Who would put a toilet in a bathroom on their main floor w/o a sink.... Eeeeewwwww! Yuck! |
Crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 504
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:24 pm: | |
Full bath, half bath, double decaf, half caf latte with a half decaf full bath. Thank you very much!
Call me crazy |
gj1
Citizen
Username: Gj1
Post Number: 14
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:50 pm: | |
I'm pretty sure it's not up to code, but it was there before we were.
There's no room for a sink...it's about the size of an average stall in a pubic restroom. It serves its purpose and if you insist on washing your hands, the kitchen sink is only a few feet away .
Needless to say it doesn't get a lot of use and guests are steered towards the other bathroom. |
jab
Citizen
Username: Jab
Post Number: 161
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 9:14 am: | |
We call our small "room" with just a bathroom sink the coat closet, because that's what it is. We're not sure whether previous owners intended to put a half-bathroom there and only got as far as putting in a sink or whether a hand-washing station was all they wanted. The former goal would not make sense as the the closet door is entirely made up of panes of glass, albeit covered with a sheer fabric. |
gemini
Citizen
Username: Gemini
Post Number: 265
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 1:44 pm: | |
maplewoody, my friend years back had a powder room right off the kitchen, w/ a toilet with no sink. I though that was my pet peeve! can you imagine during cooking??! |
Ed May
Citizen
Username: Edmay
Post Number: 1912
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | |
With a full bath you can linger and enjoy the bubble bath. With a half bath, depending on how you slice it, you are either forced to bathe in half the water, or the bath becomes kind of like a shower as the water continuously enters and leaves the tub through the space where the other half of the bathtub should have been. (What a half-assed question!)
Ed May |
luv2cruise
Citizen
Username: Luv2cruise
Post Number: 149
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:00 am: | |
I'd say it's more like a half-assed response.
There's nothing like being on the ocean! |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 432
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:23 pm: | |
Gemini,
At least they didn't have to post one of those "employees must wash hands before returning to the kitchen" signs.... |
knak
Citizen
Username: Knak
Post Number: 43
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:06 pm: | |
Our toilet in a closet in the basement was counted as .25. But we usually tell people we have a 1-bathroom house, since it's just used as the emergency-can't-wait toilet, not intended for guests. I still remember the "water closets" of my East Village apartments in the early 70's that were in the living room of one apartment and the kitchen of another (with a step-up shower stall across from the stove as the improvement over a tub!). I had many friends with water closets in the public hallway, which was really scary. So I appreciate the real bathroom and the .25 as well. |
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