Why is the shower in the bedroom?
In my hunting for RV floor plans and styles that I will be focusing on, I keep seeing this. It is an immediate "hit the back space" when I see it. I can't imagine the mold problems that this would cau...
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DSDP Don wrote:
"westwind15"....It all depends on the RV and it's size. When we first started RVing, it was in a slide in camper. The toilet, shower and sink were all in one fiberglass mold. You sat on the toilet while showering.
When we bought our first Class C, it had a small all in one bath. Usually, your knees were in the shower or near it when using the toilet. Small coach, small bathroom.
Personally, the small bathrooms in the trailers and motor homes of several years ago are why you see the split baths now. The first thing people wanted when they moved to a larger coach was more room to shower....hence the separate units.
When we went shopping for a DP in 2005, we didn't want a split bath with the front of the coach open to the bedroom. We hunted for a side aisle with all in one bath. It wasn't popular then because people were still looking for that roomy shower, but didn't realize in a large motor home that was available in an all in one bath.
Now, new systems and designs allow for the full bath across the back of a motor home. I said systems, because typically a bathroom is located where the toilet can dump straight down into the holding tank. Now, there are macerator toilets that will pump waste to anywhere in the coach, allowing the builder to move bathrooms to different areas. I think you'll find the future of split baths in LARGE COACH floor plans will dwindle.
Before someone jumps in with an example of how their tent trailer is plumbed, remember......size of the coach dictates bathroom size and configuration.
Interesting history, thanks! I did not know that. :-) When I was growing up, we used to stay some weekends in my Grandfather's trailer, which was parked in the desert. I do remember how tiny the bathroom was!
On boats, it works much the same. Same type of plumbing, same type of toilets, same black tanks. But I had 2 "heads" on opposite ends of the boat. All the plumbing ran though the bilge underneath, where the water pump was located too. And my "head", with shower, was about 12 feet away from the black water tank. They made it work somehow. Granted, on a boat, grey water goes overboard, but the toilet does not!
