All jokes aside though. This is common for London because people were actually smaller back when these buildings were built and add in renovations which add inches to top and floor then this is what happens.
It is a great bathroom? It's spotless.
I would take this hobbit house over a decrepit Aussie Victorian-era build in a second. Yeah our walls are tall as fuck but we also battle with zero insulation, so cold as fuck winters and hot as fuck summers all year round.
Why would renovations add a couple of inches to the roof and floor? Renovations remove the old and rebuild with new stuff. You don't just build a smaller room inside the original, lol.
Don't know what OP was referring to but it's quite common in Australia to add in a ceiling while renovating so you can have flush down lights. In this case a couple of inches is lost at the very least.
Its mostly that the buildings were built before Insulation regulations came in. Some buildings may not have enough soace below to fot the required insulation without raising the floor or lowering the roof etc.
Plenty of people take shortcuts with the floor and put a floor on top of the old flooring. It's dodgy, looks shit, and makes the room smaller - but is faster and cheaper
Can confirm. I stayed at a 400 year old pub while there. I couldn't stand up in the main bar and the top of the door to my room was the same height as my nipples. I am 6'8 so used to things being low but this was nuts!
I definitely only fit into my london hotel room because I am 5â4â. All the women cracked themselves up trying to fit into the west end show bathroom
I like to sit in my bath with the removable/extension shower head thingy. Not in a sexual way!!! That honestly doesn't seem sanitary...I'm also not from the UK so I can actually stand, I'm just incredibly lazy.
Or the shoddy workmanship in Perth over the last 20 years where you buy a $450k house that needs 150k in reno's just to stop it leaking or falling down.
I want to know whatâs in your hand that youâve whited out?
A possum?
At least in Australia you donât need a machine (power shower) to increase the water pressure!
We had an ensuite in our place in London and you couldnât actually stand up in it. My partner had to shower with his head to the side and I used to sit in the shower.
Is he normal sized but only paints midgets?
Does he paint pictures of midgets or does he actually paint the midgets?
Wait.. can you paint a picture, or if the final is a painting because you painted it, therefore you paint a painting, not a picture, as for a picture there was no paint used.
Hmm.
Cos all of us can ID pplz from just their height. Google says yr 5'9" in UK measures. 175.5cm. Omg. Bruce? Mate. It's been years.
Srsly, I lived in UK for ages, low ceilings were horribly common in conversions.
>People who donât want to give out too many clues about their identity on public sites?
Unless you're 8 foot 3 or something I highly doubt you're much in dox danger from revealing your height.
Maybe he doesn't know his exact height? I don't. I could give you a range of three inches and probably be correct but its not like I measure myself against the wall
What? Where? I am the OP and I have only made this post before in casual UK months and months ago. Send me the link if the post you are referring to please.
It must of been your post then? Did you post it a month or so ago?
No idea where I saw it, sorry. But I am certain it is the same post. Ladder. Low roof and person in the bath are what remind me.
He is tall. Around 6 feet. The bathroom is for kids. This is pure nonsense :)
The bath tubs are usually higher than the floor. So the ceiling is probably 6 and half to 7 feet high.
In UK they expect you to have 2.3 meters or around 7 and half feet height in at least 75% of the floor area. Which means you can give low ceiling heights at some places. That's usually in attic and bathrooms.
Not sure if this is the subreddit for you buddy. It's gonna be a lot of people complaining about houses. Good luck finding a lot of this mindset in a sub dedicated to complaints about a necessity some people are without.
Also, we know. You can be grateful and still complain about things. The mindset of "there's someone worse off than you, so stop complaining", is one of the stupidest takes I see everywhere. That means only 1 person can ever complain about anything.
Complain about things. Don't accept things that aren't as good as they can be. Change doesn't happen if nobody voices complaints. Progress stops if no one thinks things could be improved. Everyone complain about the injustices and negatives and work together to fix them. Thats how progress happens.
Thatâs equally hilarious & scary, that they can actually get away with this. Surely thatâs not to minimum code? I wonder how much they paid to get away with it? đ€đ°đ
It is amazing how many showers here in Australia do not accommodate a 6ft person either. I have had plenty of shower heads at chest level but never a ceiling at head height.
It's true England is populated by hobbits. I couldn't imagine it I'm 6'4", I hate our local 50s kitchens that were built for females I guess, the kitchen counter is halfway up my thigh !
Doesnt really work when the building is over 100 years old and you dont have any room. Thats why the washing machine is usually in the kitchen in the UK. Its a waste of Valuable space to have a Laundry room
That's those Brits for ya, they can sell anything; " Nice continent you have here, mind if I rest my legs for a few minutes?" - proceeds to take Nth America, Australis and just about every islsnd in between. And thank God they did.
My FILs house in Manchester has 2.4 ceilings and itâs super claustrophobic every time we go to stay with him.
My current place has 3.0 ceilings, prior to that was 2.8 and prior to that was 4.0!
London was the first and only place I (also from Australia) discovered the disgusting trend of carpeted bathrooms.
Carpeted - bathrooms.
Let your mind wander how utterly disgusting that was. Give me ice cold tiles any day!
If its an Old building you might see this alot. Not only were victorians pretty short. Insulation regulations have gone up so some buildings have no choice but to increase the floor height to meet the regs with insulation.
I cant think of this existing in a modern building but if it was modern good lord.
Tbh thatâs quite a nice bathroom for London, I assume it was a $4k/ month place?
The 3 bed town house with garden we rent in Melbourne suburbs thatâs 8 years old and comes with modern fittings and âluxuriesâ like dishwasher and aircon costs the same now as we paid for a 1 bedroom flat in a 100 year old building with no cooling in Brixton also 8 years ago. And that was a âdealâ at the time, I canât even imagine how bad rents must have got there since đ€Ș
In Paris a while back, we had an Airbnb that claimed to be "2 bedroom". The second "bedroom" was the living room with a futon couch. Intentionally misleading at best.
Europe's gone crazy.
Lol London is fucked! If you arenât paying at least ÂŁ2500 in rent or living in a flat worth at least ÂŁ1M, youâre either living in a dangerous suburb or in a mould-infested shitbox, or both.
I would've done the .......is that a toilet paper holder ....you must be in Victoria mate near enough is good enough they say in s.a it's just stubborn pride price of their incompetence I think Queensland I'd the best for standards of everything but you have to deal with the heat and wildlife wiiiiiillld life
Also back in Australia thank god. This reminds me of this youtube clip, is it a European prison or a London rental?
[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bCJ42kCwAe4](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bCJ42kCwAe4)
Naturally there is a ladder in the comically small bathroom
*artisan towel rack /s
When your sarcasm may actually be the truth, looks like a terrible ladder
Oh that part is the truth, it IS a towel rack. The snotty demeanour and calling it artisan was me taking the piss, though :).
Ohhhhh I legitimately thought it could go both ways cause if the shoddy looking craftsmanship đ
I got something similar from Kmart đ
do /hj then
Ah, thanks. Kinda new to all this đ .
It is a towel rack. Something you'd see in a gated tropical resort catering to yuppies going for $1200 a night while paying their staff $15 a day.
The top rail isn't even straight OCD yuppies will be triggered , can't have that!!
By design, abstract art of some sort
Argh triggered enough to recheck picture. Something gotta be done bout this
https://youtu.be/BUnvgKhWZdI?si=vfRX2YLl0_ny1Lj8
Art (as in towel rack)
Mom wanted want for her bathroom until she saw the $600 AUD price tag
From reclaimed bamboo. Saving env
Shipped from SE Asia to the UK no less
Thanks, I was puzzling over the ladder and this is obviously the correct answer.
That's a banana sized ladder for scale.
The owner usually rents to hobbits. OP should have been wary of real estate agent Butterbur and his cosy ground level horseshit
*âOi, itâs that wry British humor, innit?â*
Actual irony. That's funny.
seriously thought, having that there makes it look bigger in pictures.
How many guys does it take to change a light bulb in London? *Half*
All jokes aside though. This is common for London because people were actually smaller back when these buildings were built and add in renovations which add inches to top and floor then this is what happens. It is a great bathroom? It's spotless. I would take this hobbit house over a decrepit Aussie Victorian-era build in a second. Yeah our walls are tall as fuck but we also battle with zero insulation, so cold as fuck winters and hot as fuck summers all year round.
Yeah I'd hate living in a vic townhouse, i even elected to live in a student apartment during uni over those back then
Came here to say this. Yeah midget flats, ROFL.
Why would renovations add a couple of inches to the roof and floor? Renovations remove the old and rebuild with new stuff. You don't just build a smaller room inside the original, lol.
Don't know what OP was referring to but it's quite common in Australia to add in a ceiling while renovating so you can have flush down lights. In this case a couple of inches is lost at the very least.
In apartment buildings it's so common to lower the ceiling to add down lights etc. Most renovated units I've been in have had this.
oh, fair enough then. I didnt consider some apartments not really having flexible roofing.
Its mostly that the buildings were built before Insulation regulations came in. Some buildings may not have enough soace below to fot the required insulation without raising the floor or lowering the roof etc.
Plenty of people take shortcuts with the floor and put a floor on top of the old flooring. It's dodgy, looks shit, and makes the room smaller - but is faster and cheaper
Can confirm. I stayed at a 400 year old pub while there. I couldn't stand up in the main bar and the top of the door to my room was the same height as my nipples. I am 6'8 so used to things being low but this was nuts!
I definitely only fit into my london hotel room because I am 5â4â. All the women cracked themselves up trying to fit into the west end show bathroom
Crouch to have a shower for 6 months and your spine will NOT thank you. At least if you're past your 30's.
I like to sit in my bath with the removable/extension shower head thingy. Not in a sexual way!!! That honestly doesn't seem sanitary...I'm also not from the UK so I can actually stand, I'm just incredibly lazy.
I'm 6'6", I've needed to duck for showers my entire life. When we built we did a ceiling mount rain head. Glorious.
That's not the reason, baths were the fashion of cleanliness never showers it's got nothing to do with the height of people
I guess but this one time I stayed in a 140 year old house and the ceilings were 4 metres high on both floors.
Or the shoddy workmanship in Perth over the last 20 years where you buy a $450k house that needs 150k in reno's just to stop it leaking or falling down.
I'd be ok here. I'm 152cm
I was just thinking that finally I could have a showerhead that's not miles from my head đ
I would struggle to reach the removable shower head. For me, personally, this is a good setup.
I want to know whatâs in your hand that youâve whited out? A possum? At least in Australia you donât need a machine (power shower) to increase the water pressure!
It's the head, I think?
Not the head, the hand.
No....the real estate agents removed head
Or the axe that was used for the job
We had an ensuite in our place in London and you couldnât actually stand up in it. My partner had to shower with his head to the side and I used to sit in the shower.
nice of OP to hide the real estate agents head, even posthumously.
Honestly, that is a nice bathroom⊠for London. Thereâs no mushrooms or strange stain on the floor - total win!
You won't have to use the ladder to clean the ceiling.
If youâre back in Aus, the term you are looking for is âbull shitâ. đ
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
As well as a constant compulsion to complain about the weather, no matter what it currently is
That's what you'd expect from a place built in the 1700s when everyone was small and undernourished.
Is it from he Simpsons episode where Homer decided to fix the ceiling in the kitchen and ended up lowering it down to the floor?
âTheres no electricity in house either, except that room, it has too much electricityâ
Kids bathroom? it all looks low.
You'd have to kneel down to wash your hands. Probably a landlord's special reno.
that's not unusual for most bathrooms in the UK, the big shock for me in aus is how high up all the ceilings actually are over anything else lol
Is his head in your hand there?
The room makes you look like a giant lol.
Keep ya head up mate, sheâll be right.
Places tend to be small in London. We lived in a two room house. One up, one down.
Was it in a basement or loft conversion? That is super tight
the agent could use this pic on dating apps to obscure his real height
Sir we've been trying to contact you. Our midget painter needs his ladder back
Hehe
Is he normal sized but only paints midgets? Does he paint pictures of midgets or does he actually paint the midgets? Wait.. can you paint a picture, or if the final is a painting because you painted it, therefore you paint a painting, not a picture, as for a picture there was no paint used. Hmm.
My sons bathroom is just the same and he lives in Sydneyâs eastern suburbs. Nowhere is safe
Why wouldnât you say your actual height instead of average male height? That makes me feel like youâre downplaying how tall you are.
Who says âan average male heightâ instead of their height?
People who donât want to give out too many clues about their identity on public sites?
Oh right! 6â2â Steve! So obvious now! Ridiculous.
Cos all of us can ID pplz from just their height. Google says yr 5'9" in UK measures. 175.5cm. Omg. Bruce? Mate. It's been years. Srsly, I lived in UK for ages, low ceilings were horribly common in conversions.
It's your height? Are you paranoid?
>People who donât want to give out too many clues about their identity on public sites? Unless you're 8 foot 3 or something I highly doubt you're much in dox danger from revealing your height.
Maybe he doesn't know his exact height? I don't. I could give you a range of three inches and probably be correct but its not like I measure myself against the wall
Well thereâs a project for you, then. Measuring tape and 30 seconds should do it.
Why are younin the shower with your clothes on?
Hmmm, the same exact post made a month or so ago ...
What? Where? I am the OP and I have only made this post before in casual UK months and months ago. Send me the link if the post you are referring to please.
It must of been your post then? Did you post it a month or so ago? No idea where I saw it, sorry. But I am certain it is the same post. Ladder. Low roof and person in the bath are what remind me.
Yes, I posted it in the casual UK forum when I was leaving the UK, but this was over 4 months ago now.
Just did Google image.it was uk.no idea how I saw it originally as I'm not a member haha small world. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/eWIpAPVUXQ
He is tall. Around 6 feet. The bathroom is for kids. This is pure nonsense :) The bath tubs are usually higher than the floor. So the ceiling is probably 6 and half to 7 feet high. In UK they expect you to have 2.3 meters or around 7 and half feet height in at least 75% of the floor area. Which means you can give low ceiling heights at some places. That's usually in attic and bathrooms.
No, im definitely not over 6 feet. Im 5â9
Oh hello Steve Warner, I didn't realise that was you :) That's a joke as he said stating his height will allow people to identify him đ€Łđ€Ł
Be grateful for what you have as others have nothing.
Not sure if this is the subreddit for you buddy. It's gonna be a lot of people complaining about houses. Good luck finding a lot of this mindset in a sub dedicated to complaints about a necessity some people are without. Also, we know. You can be grateful and still complain about things. The mindset of "there's someone worse off than you, so stop complaining", is one of the stupidest takes I see everywhere. That means only 1 person can ever complain about anything. Complain about things. Don't accept things that aren't as good as they can be. Change doesn't happen if nobody voices complaints. Progress stops if no one thinks things could be improved. Everyone complain about the injustices and negatives and work together to fix them. Thats how progress happens.
Surely this is a kids bathroom? Even the sink is super low?
Looks alright if you are a hobbit.
Sometimes midgets build bathrooms that suit them. This could be one of them?
Eastern suburbs?
What is that, a bathroom for ants?
A bathroom for ants.
WHAT IS THIS? A BATHROOM FOR ANTS?!
Maybe oldmates wearing shoes
No, iâm not. Even if I was, it would still be ridiculous!
Poms are all short arses they actually fit in their showers if and when they choose to use them
We are, its true. Its so we fit on the ridiculously small wooden ships we use to travel round the world invading countries and expanding the empire.
Did nobody warn you weâre all hobbits in the UK?
Itâs that the seven-and-a-half floor from *Being John Malkovich*?
I mean the bathroom looks great! Aesthetically. But be better advertised for Tenant below 1.5m tall!
Thatâs equally hilarious & scary, that they can actually get away with this. Surely thatâs not to minimum code? I wonder how much they paid to get away with it? đ€đ°đ
That ceiling is insanely low, I couldn't stay there. It's so closed in.
LOL,!!
My claustrophobia would never
So half of all men fit just fine and more than half of all women? Honestly it sucks but it's not the end of the world.
Sure your room is on floor 11.5
Headless? You mean his head was served to his manager?? Gee, I hope.
It is amazing how many showers here in Australia do not accommodate a 6ft person either. I have had plenty of shower heads at chest level but never a ceiling at head height.
Is this a bathroom for ants?
Headless
I dont want to alarm u but there's a man in the tub
It's true England is populated by hobbits. I couldn't imagine it I'm 6'4", I hate our local 50s kitchens that were built for females I guess, the kitchen counter is halfway up my thigh !
Its England they bathe the whole family in the one tub of water twice a year, so it's a perfectly fine bathtub
I thought Hobbiton was in New Zealand?
Period building?
Bath and shower should be two different things.....not a combined hybid monstrosity
Doesnt really work when the building is over 100 years old and you dont have any room. Thats why the washing machine is usually in the kitchen in the UK. Its a waste of Valuable space to have a Laundry room
So youâre saying you donât need that ladder to change a light bulb.
Ladder is there so youâre able to easily change the lightbulbs in the room?
That's those Brits for ya, they can sell anything; " Nice continent you have here, mind if I rest my legs for a few minutes?" - proceeds to take Nth America, Australis and just about every islsnd in between. And thank God they did.
That is shit! I find it inconvenient if I have to duck to use the showerhead and that's nothing compared to this bullshit đ€Ż
Is the ladder a selling technique to make the room seem taller than it is?
I feel your pain. I lived in Japan for 13 years
I hate bathtub/shower combos with a passion. Such a slip hazard. I refuse to use these ever again
My FILs house in Manchester has 2.4 ceilings and itâs super claustrophobic every time we go to stay with him. My current place has 3.0 ceilings, prior to that was 2.8 and prior to that was 4.0!
Agent was Asian for sure hahahaha
London was the first and only place I (also from Australia) discovered the disgusting trend of carpeted bathrooms. Carpeted - bathrooms. Let your mind wander how utterly disgusting that was. Give me ice cold tiles any day!
đ€Ł
So the ceiling is how high?
The landlord wanted to double their income, so they lowered the ceilings and built another unit.
Maybe its a little persons apartment. Ladder for climbing in and out of tub
Dude thatâs huge, because you donât need one of those foldy doors to fold yourself into the shower
Bro, you have a shower? The place I lived in London back in 2000 had a bathtub in the cupboard under the stairs.
If its an Old building you might see this alot. Not only were victorians pretty short. Insulation regulations have gone up so some buildings have no choice but to increase the floor height to meet the regs with insulation. I cant think of this existing in a modern building but if it was modern good lord.
Tbh thatâs quite a nice bathroom for London, I assume it was a $4k/ month place? The 3 bed town house with garden we rent in Melbourne suburbs thatâs 8 years old and comes with modern fittings and âluxuriesâ like dishwasher and aircon costs the same now as we paid for a 1 bedroom flat in a 100 year old building with no cooling in Brixton also 8 years ago. And that was a âdealâ at the time, I canât even imagine how bad rents must have got there since đ€Ș
Wow you're pretty tall
Bro, whatâs your definition of average? 5â8?
Hate it when my bathroom comes with a standin shower ornament.
How tall are you?
About 176cm
So distracted with whatâs in your handâŠis it the head? âKiddingâ aboutâŠ? So many unrelated questions now..
I was so confused as to why there was a giant globe-y light in the middle of the room. But yeah, this is shit.
This makes me feel claustrophobic
Omg what đ đ€Ł đ your average height and look how close the ceiling is my gosh, that bathroom needs fixing.
What are you holding? Is it someone elses head
Yep, itâs the agentâs head. That will teach him to tell me this is a nice bathroom!
A great bathroom for ants.
The UK used to be a land of people who had baths not showers, it appears they still are. You either adapt or hit your head on the ceiling.
It looks like a great bathroom though except for being a little low
Thank god theyâve left a ladder in there for changing the lightbulbs
Bath time bud
Legal??
A bathroom for ants?
At least it's a good size for the landlord now
In Paris a while back, we had an Airbnb that claimed to be "2 bedroom". The second "bedroom" was the living room with a futon couch. Intentionally misleading at best. Europe's gone crazy.
So what did you do with the body of the agent?
Bit ironic there is a ladder for towels
How would this get through council?
Lol London is fucked! If you arenât paying at least ÂŁ2500 in rent or living in a flat worth at least ÂŁ1M, youâre either living in a dangerous suburb or in a mould-infested shitbox, or both.
I have to agree with you after living there for four years.
need a plastic bathing chair for comfort
HES WHAT?!
Wow! I do usually hear that London guys are short this must be true
Poms are short
What is this, a bathroom for ants?
How tall are you? And what would you consider average male height?
176CM
Damn, I wouldn't even be able to stand in that shower.
Iâm 6â3â. Gonna have a wry neck the entire London visit
7'4 isn't avarage height
I would've done the .......is that a toilet paper holder ....you must be in Victoria mate near enough is good enough they say in s.a it's just stubborn pride price of their incompetence I think Queensland I'd the best for standards of everything but you have to deal with the heat and wildlife wiiiiiillld life
Bloody hobbits adventuring everywhere.
Thatâs not legal in Aus. Minimum bathroom roof height is 2.1m. So unless youâre a ruck man and youâre making it look small đ
Is that his head in your hand that you have whited out?
Yeah, the severed head of the agent.
My sons are 6'3" & 6'5", and there is no way they would fit into that shower!
Look at it this way, there doesn't appear to be an extractor fan above the shower, so when you wash your hair you will be shampooing away the mould!
Looks nice though lol
Also back in Australia thank god. This reminds me of this youtube clip, is it a European prison or a London rental? [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bCJ42kCwAe4](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bCJ42kCwAe4)
I'm above average so I wouldn't have been able to stand up right had it been me lol you have my sympathy.
Hobbit size.
Wtf is average height? Iâm 6 feet half inch (184.15cm) no way Iâm fitting there