• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.

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      1 day ago

      It is common in the US, frequently they will be listed as 2 & 1/2 baths if they have two with tubs and one without.

      Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…

      I always found the term 1/2 bath weird.

      • CuteCatBeingEatenByHaitian@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        that’s some realtor math. they are known to magically inflate surface before you buy it, and shrink it back once you bought / rented it. Mathematicians can’t explain that !

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        Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…

        They’d either list them separately or as a whole and then clarify. E.g. "two full- and two half-baths"or something like “four bathrooms - two full”

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      24 hours ago

      It’s a way to conveniently talk about the number of bathrooms. You can say a house is “three bedroom, two and a half bath” and you convey that there are two bathrooms and one “washroom”.

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        10 hours ago

        What gets confusing are these large homes, or McMansions that list 5 bedrooms and 7 and a half baths. So are they listing 3 powder rooms at 1.5 baths? I can’t afford them, so I only see it online; but that part gets weird. I have seen descriptions that then list full and partial though.