gandalf_der_12tehostile design: sink
NarrativeBearThank goodness that trashcan is there to help catch all that water, and the drain on the floor as a backup, in case anything is missed.
_haha_oh_wow_It’s layers of protection: Brilliant!
Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn’t tolerate it.
What? It’s fine, there’s a drain in the floor!
TrickDacySomeone probably removed the flow cartridge since they didn’t like the pressure it had. Now this.
That is some impressive fuckuppery!
My sink effectively was kind of like this. If you turn the faucet on all the way, which is hard to not do in practice, literally every single time, due to how the drain is oriented, it splashed water out of the sink. I would call that worse than mildly infuriating and it’s way better than this situation. I had to turn the water supply valves way down to prevent it. It’s not ideal but helps a lot.
I’ll never understand how people lived in this house for 15 years before I did and we’re fine with water splashing out 100 times a day.
I just said that’s what I did. You think they adjusted to be wide open before they moved out? I’m doubtful
Wow, no shit? Is that what all those funny characters in your comment mean?
Yes, i think that’s possible, obviously.
They obviously didn’t solve it, since it still exists. In this scenario they put a bandaid on it and then when selling put it back to normal so the next person can do what they please.
Or they could have thought it would be a funny prank.
I think that’s much more likely than them completely braindead and suffering the whole time, like you think. That’s certainly possible too, though.
Classic internet person response. Instead of recognizing that your half assed guess is uninformed, you think you’ve done me a favor by admitting the thing that I (the person with actual context and firsthand knowledge) think is true is possible rather than likely…
It’s a rental and the house is full of “how the fuck did they not fix this” problems. But who am I to say this. I only live here.
To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.
yeah actually i wanted to post this to actually_infuriating but for 1. it doesn’t affect me personally and 2. that community has barely any exposure, so i posted it here ;D
That’s just bad design, not hostile.
Hostile sink design can be found at Frankfurt airport, where only hot water comes out of the tap, to get people to buy water bottles for 5€ if they want to drink it.
Hostile sink design can be found at Frankfurt airport, where only hot water comes out of the tap, to get people to buy water bottles for 5€ if they want to drink it.
Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.
The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.
I’d argue it’s trying to keep people from using the restaurant’s water or sth idk
but yeah you’re right actually
It’s a construction error. That’s a tall mixer for above counter basins lol. Some plumber put this on and went not my job laughed and walked away. As much as architects and designers are useless cunts I doubt this on them.
Most likely the customer or some random person adjusted the valves. A job like this wouldn’t be signed off on, even a bad plumber wouldn’t do this… fucking lol.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
It cleans the floor as well as ur hand. Neat! /j
Just get a different faucet, that sink is criminally small but would be more expensive to replace.
My theory: Someone purchased the sink and faucet separately likely at a discount, and either ignored the issue or wasn’t informed after install.
Instead of replacing the defective sink, they added a sink to the ground!
they should think about a career in software development … (/s)