Plumbing Pandemonium

Not only does the water go down clockwise here in the northern hemisphere, there are numerous other plumbing “issues” to contend with.

Automatic flushing toilets are terrific in theory, but when a 4 year old mounts the loo the sensor doesn’t always register his presence and/or departure and when he arrived or left. So what happens when it sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t? Mid stream the cistern fires and then we have one terrified little boy screaming for dear life and refusing to ever go again.

And then there is the very full bowls. Now we understand why American movies feature the regular joke about the dog drinking from the toilet, it really is possible, and head flushing, and … let’s stop there. Even still this is confusing for little ones who are now astounded at the volume of what they’ve just passed.

Getting back to the sensors, these are also attached to the hand basins. Highly entertaining when you can repeatedly walk the length of 10 basins firing them all off without getting your hands wet. We could spend all day in there doing that.

Then there are the showers. One pressure setting with a pull on/push off knob. Turn it left and right to change the temperature. Lots of screaming somehow seems to help in getting this right. Lessons in shower curtains are also required. Step 1. If you want to flood the bathroom whilst showering, leave the shower curtain hanging outside the bath. Step 2 Don’t listen to the lecture your brother received about it and then you can do it too.

Somehow the bubblers are also back to front, how this could be I’m not quite sure, but the gymnastics required to operate them are quite the show to be seen.

Michael