The Official Cranberry Township Thread (Bath, Seven Fields: appliances, crawl space, new construction)

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by Tinare

I certainly did not mean everyone is soft. I have a mother who is in a wheelchair so I certainly understand accessibility and physical limitations. Just reading that someone thought a house was sooo cheap solely because it ONLY had one and half baths and neither was on the main floor, and boy that's just so inconvenient, just led me to thinking that in general, we are spoiled are we not? So maybe that was a better way to say it. Anyone who needs that, needs it. I didn't mean to make it sound like no one does. But, then again, not everyone does and so for those that don't, climbing one set of stairs so is terribly, terribly inconvenient? (And as a bonus -- tones the butt...)

As an aside -- my mother's house does not have a bathroom on the main level either. Stair glides were a wonderful invention for retrofitting old homes to make them handicap accessible.

Sorry, I was being harsh -- my knees were KILLING me -- and I had just had knee shots that hadn't kicked in.

Those things are great inventions.

[Katarina Witt]

This is going to sound gross, but in the old days there were these things called "chamber pots" that people kept in their bedrooms so they didn't have to go out to the outhouse at night. Think of a hospital bedpan and you get the idea.

When my dad broke his hip and couldn't go up stairs to the bathroom, my mom rented an adult "potty chair". There are some circumstances that require some creative solutions.

[hornet67]

This thread, supposedly about Cranberry Twp., has literally gone into the toilet!

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by hornet67

This thread, supposedly about Cranberry Twp., has literally gone into the toilet!

The Pittsburgh Toilet?

[Caladium]

LOL, I'll bet you guys want to "can" all this talk about toilets (sorry, couldn't resist) but getting back to Cranberry for a moment, it doesn't surprise me one bit if a fair number of homes there have four bathrooms. It's easier to have than you might think.

I don't live in a super huge house, but we have four bathrooms. How did that happen? Easy. Bathroom #1 is in the basement. I often work from home, and my office is in the basement, so a bathroom down there is a necessity (especially since co-workers regularly stop by to go over a report or drop things off. I don't really want to send them up to my bedroom just to use a bathroom.)

Bathroom #2 is on the first floor. It's just a powder room in the hallway and is the one used when we have people over.

Bathroom #3 is upstairs and is used by my kids.

Bathroom #4 is an en suite attached to the master bedroom. It's really good to have two different bathrooms upstairs since everyone needs to get ready at about the same time each morning.

See how quickly they add up?

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by Caladium

LOL, I'll bet you guys want to "can" all this talk about toilets (sorry, couldn't resist) but getting back to Cranberry for a moment, it doesn't surprise me one bit if a fair number of homes there have four bathrooms. It's easier to have than you might think.

I don't live in a super huge house, but we have four bathrooms. How did that happen? Easy. Bathroom #1 is in the basement. I often work from home, and my office is in the basement, so a bathroom down there is a necessity (especially since co-workers regularly stop by to go over a report or drop things off. I don't really want to send them up to my bedroom just to use a bathroom.)

Bathroom #2 is on the first floor. It's just a powder room in the hallway and is the one used when we have people over.

Bathroom #3 is upstairs and is used by my kids.

Bathroom #4 is an en suite attached to the master bedroom. It's really good to have two different bathrooms upstairs since everyone needs to get ready at about the same time each morning.

See how quickly they add up?

Just curious how many square feet your house is? Including the basement if it is finished, which it sounds like it is.

I can definitely see making use of multiple bathrooms, I just can't see it ever being a necessity rather than a "nice to have." And even that is debatable, as you then have 4 bathrooms to clean and a bunch of space that could have been put to a a different use. I grew up in a 1200 square foot house with 4 people, 1 floor, and 1 bathroom. I never found myself to be suffering. At times it would have been more convenient to have had a 2nd bathroom (but not a 3rd or 4th!), but multiple bathrooms are not a necessity besides for the largest households.

[greg42]

There are actually a fair number of older, smaller houses from the 80s in Cranberry that probably don't have more than 2 bathrooms. The larger ones didn't come until later, and those probably do have at least 3 every time, with one of them likely being a half.

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by Caladium

See how quickly they add up?

This has nothing to do with you Caladium, but this sentiment comes up too often. I remember sitting in a class once where we were making a potential Pittsburgh cost of living budget as a group exercise. In the end it came down to essentially "75K/year is not a lot of money, you can maybe get a $200K house, which isn't a lot of house either, and everything else will be scrimping and saving"

Of course this was back when I was making 29K a year and even on that I still had money to burn (to be fair, I was and am a single person household). I just think it's interesting how often people are oblivious to how much excess and luxury they have in their lives.

Can you believe it? "$75K is not a lot of money to be making in Pittsburgh," the professor actually stressed the word "not". I'm almost glad that I graduated into a recession in that sense, I'm not totally out of touch with how little you can get by on.

[Caladium]

Originally Posted by greg42

There are actually a fair number of older, smaller houses from the 80s in Cranberry that probably don't have more than 2 bathrooms. The larger ones didn't come until later, and those probably do have at least 3 every time, with one of them likely being a half.

LOL well if that's the case then what was the beef about anyway? It's been an interesting side topic and all, but it doesn't sound like Cranberry homes are that extreme.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by ferrarisnowday

Just curious how many square feet your house is? Including the basement if it is finished, which it sounds like it is.

I can definitely see making use of multiple bathrooms, I just can't see it ever being a necessity rather than a "nice to have." And even that is debatable, as you then have 4 bathrooms to clean and a bunch of space that could have been put to a a different use. I grew up in a 1200 square foot house with 4 people, 1 floor, and 1 bathroom. I never found myself to be suffering. At times it would have been more convenient to have had a 2nd bathroom (but not a 3rd or 4th!), but multiple bathrooms are not a necessity besides for the largest households.

Why do you care how many bathrooms someone else has in their house? I don't get this "bathroom fetish". BTW, I have 3.