I have always been surprised by the difficulty that knowledge and innovation find to flow across cultures, fields, countries.
My wife just called me panicky to tell me that the washer water is coming out and it is all over the wooden floors. The most silly litlle thing and you have permanant damage to the floors. If I were in an appartment or a second floor the damage would extend to the ceiling of the guy below me. This disaster would never happen in Europe. There every toilet has in the middle what the showers have here: a small covered drain , and the toilet floor is always built in a way that it has a tilt towards that point. On top of avoiding flooding the appartment, it makes washing toilets a much less ugly chore.
(I will avoid discussing the details of the opposite problem. European toilet bowls haven't discovered the simple idea of being filled up with water (its more than that - they use a different flushing technique) Water is only at the very bottom which makes flushing/self cleaning a disaster compared to American toilets bowls...)
My wife just called me panicky to tell me that the washer water is coming out and it is all over the wooden floors. The most silly litlle thing and you have permanant damage to the floors. If I were in an appartment or a second floor the damage would extend to the ceiling of the guy below me. This disaster would never happen in Europe. There every toilet has in the middle what the showers have here: a small covered drain , and the toilet floor is always built in a way that it has a tilt towards that point. On top of avoiding flooding the appartment, it makes washing toilets a much less ugly chore.
(I will avoid discussing the details of the opposite problem. European toilet bowls haven't discovered the simple idea of being filled up with water (its more than that - they use a different flushing technique) Water is only at the very bottom which makes flushing/self cleaning a disaster compared to American toilets bowls...)
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