Was in china recently. The place where I was staying (like almost all buildings in the region) had a water heater that was solar powered on the roof. One day there’s a leak from the roof, turns out the water heater had a busted pipe, these things happen.
Then I find out there is no bypass for the water heater, all water for the house passes through it, even cold. The only thing that can be done is to turn off the water for the house, no more showers or pooping unless I want to use a lot of filtered water until it can be fixed. Ok I guess I can deal with it until they can replace the pipe.
Turns out the solar water heater is made so shittily that the repair man says it’s too hard to replace the pipe and would need to install a new unit, none of the original unit can be reused, not even the solar panel since its an all in one unit.
For the rest of the stay I couldn’t shower or poop where I was living. But I did find one bathroom at a coffee house that was interesting.
Squat toilets are usually either a pit or like this one that’s basically a floor mounted urinal that almost anyone can use. So yeah, can’t poop in a urinal. But sucks when they’re all that pubic restrooms have.
OK the white ones like that that I had seen a couple of times didn’t have a flushing mechanism or big enough opening to aim, so if someone pooped in it, it would just sit there until someone came to clean it.
Yeah just meant the ones ive seen in China that looked similar didn’t have flushing mechanisms much like the urinals that don’t need to be flushed. Those ones aren’t suitable fir pooping, but sounds like this one is different.
Was in china recently. The place where I was staying (like almost all buildings in the region) had a water heater that was solar powered on the roof. One day there’s a leak from the roof, turns out the water heater had a busted pipe, these things happen.
Then I find out there is no bypass for the water heater, all water for the house passes through it, even cold. The only thing that can be done is to turn off the water for the house, no more showers or pooping unless I want to use a lot of filtered water until it can be fixed. Ok I guess I can deal with it until they can replace the pipe.
Turns out the solar water heater is made so shittily that the repair man says it’s too hard to replace the pipe and would need to install a new unit, none of the original unit can be reused, not even the solar panel since its an all in one unit.
For the rest of the stay I couldn’t shower or poop where I was living. But I did find one bathroom at a coffee house that was interesting.
Squat toilets are usually either a pit or like this one that’s basically a floor mounted urinal that almost anyone can use. So yeah, can’t poop in a urinal. But sucks when they’re all that pubic restrooms have.
No, you can totally poop in these. The issue here is that the coffee house has old pipes.
OK the white ones like that that I had seen a couple of times didn’t have a flushing mechanism or big enough opening to aim, so if someone pooped in it, it would just sit there until someone came to clean it.
Naw, the flush gets it all down the drain. It’s not a urinal, they have those too in larger bathrooms.
Yeah just meant the ones ive seen in China that looked similar didn’t have flushing mechanisms much like the urinals that don’t need to be flushed. Those ones aren’t suitable fir pooping, but sounds like this one is different.
I used to live in south korea. The first time I saw a squat toilet it blew my mind. That might be the nicest squat toilet i’ve seen though.
It was just too bad you’re not allowed to poop in it.