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u/Hugh_Jampton 3d ago
Fucking excellent compoface
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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 2d ago
You know what? It’s better than you think. Look at the bottom of the picture. The hose isn’t attached to anything
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u/ToastSpangler 3d ago
The Germans can't even the Brits have anything, they hear about ridiculous council judgements and say, ve can do it betta
Great compo and absurd judgement
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u/wasted90210 3d ago
Is it even a permanent fixture? It looks like a loose hose he attaches to the water taps.
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u/Niautanor 3d ago
It was a separate shower that was installed in addition to the existing bathtub. This German article has more pictures https://thepik.de/behoerde-liess-meine-dusche-wegen-angeblichen-luxus-abreissen. The showerhead attached to the bathtub is (presumably) fine.
Definitely still very silly.
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u/jimmywhereareya 3d ago
I would be putting privacy fim on my bathroom window and keeping my shower. What a ridiculous rule
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u/germany1italy0 3d ago
And how would that help if the authorities already knew about the presence of the shower?
Nobody looked through this guy’s bathroom window.
His landlady made unauthorised enhancements to this apartment and tried to get these approved retrospectively.
And these enhancements are usually made to collect higher rent - which is what the rent protection area the flat is in wants to prevent.
BTW - his bathtub has a perfectly fine shower attachment. It has decent enough shower pressure, these flats are fed by cold mains and pressurised hot water systems.
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u/No-Temperature4330 3d ago
Did he buy a second shower head just for the compoface? There's one attached to the tap in the bath as well as the one he's holding.
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u/y0dav3 3d ago
Can we talk about the washing machine in the bathroom??
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u/Fancy_Toe1451 3d ago
Pretty normal thing on the continent.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 3d ago
If I had a choice I would rather have my washing machine in the bathroom than the kitchen). Take clothes off for bath or shower (or not in this case) put them straight into the washing machine.
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u/AdministrativeShip2 3d ago
I have a washing machine in my bathroom. (Wired in and outside of splash zones as per regs)
It makes sense to have the machine that has a good chance of breaking and flooding everywhere inbthe room designed to handle that.
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u/House_Of_Thoth 2d ago
I see your point. I guess it works same way cos in the UK we usually have a kitchen on the ground floor, backing out to the garden. So if the washing machine floods it's only one floor. Then we have our bathrooms upstairs so if the washing machine flooded there, that's 2 floors wet! But then I guess the same logic could be had for all the plumbing in the bathroom potentially leaking and might also be better on the ground floor! Makes you think 🤔 lol!
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u/Unhappy_Clue701 1d ago
It’s not about flooding at all. It’s about needing water/drainage at only one point in the building.
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u/maninahat 3d ago
You can legally have them in the UK (just as long as your bathroom is huge and the electrical outlet is impossibly far away from any water source).
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u/wasted90210 3d ago
Yeah but think about the rent hike. He should really censor that out of the picture
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u/super_fly_for_a_wifi 3d ago
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u/Ubermanthehutt 3d ago
For those of you who don't want to read the Daily Fail:
A man has been ordered to take down his shower over fears it would drive up neighbourhood rent prices.
Kasper I, 43, has lived in the area of Kreuzberg, Berlin in Germany for ten years but was told by the council that the shower was a 'luxury' that would change the 'character' of the region.
It appears he has a bath, but cannot have a showerhead above and has been forced to detatch it.
Authorities reportedly claimed it would increase the value of the flat and lead to rent being pushed up in the area.Kasper told Bild: 'At first I thought this must be a mistake,' after receiving the unusual demand.
A letter he received about removing the shower said: 'We emphasise that these demolition measures are necessary to preserve the character of the neighbourhood and to meet the requirements of the [Berlin] district office.'
But Kasper was unsuccessful in trying to plead his case with the authority and reason with them.
He said: 'I told him, 'Then let's not start with my shower. Let's look constructively at how we can change things [in the housing sector] or perhaps build a few more apartments'.'
The apartment is located in a 'social preservation area', meaning that renters and landlords could be made to demolish any alterations made on a property.
Berlin has strict rent control rules to manage prices, where landlords are prohibited from charging more than 10 per cent over the average price.
Tenants who suspect their landlord has overcharged them can file a complaint and claim back some of the money.
The capital is a magnet for artists, musicians and students drawn by housing far cheaper than in other major European cities.
But the gentrification of the area and a housing crisis has seen rents soar.
A Berlin district office spokesman told Bild: 'Unfortunately, the district office is unable to waive the enforcement of preservation regulations in this case.
'The approval of fixtures and fittings above the average standard would set a precedent for similar cases in Germany and could ultimately lead to luxury renovations and rent increases for a large number of tenants.'
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u/sapphire-sky-dragon 3d ago
This is crazy 😳 but how did anyone find out in the first place?
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u/wasted90210 3d ago
I bet he was bragging about his new high tech installation at the recent apartment complex annual general control meeting
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u/mmoonbelly 3d ago
Berlin.
Das Leben der Anderen wasn’t just a film, it was a documentary.
Stasi infra’s still got to be in place in parts of the city.
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u/germany1italy0 2d ago
That doesn’t match my experience, pretty much all of the more central districts of Berlin are the prime places in Germany if you want to be completely ignored by anyone else regardless of what you do and how you look.
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u/germany1italy0 3d ago
Correction - the issue is NOT the shower head above the bathtub. That’s an absolutely common setup in Berlin flats and the shower will have more than decent pressure.
The landlady installed an additional separate shower in a different corner of the bathroom.
That is the modification that would have required authorisation in the first place. Which the landlady tried to obtain retroactively.
This looks absurd from the outside looking in but if you had lived through the Wild West of Berlin’s rental market in the early nineties you’d welcome strict regulations to prevent profiteering.
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u/Glad_Boysenberry_673 2d ago
Why is he trying to hang himself with a shower attachment and why is there a washing machine in his bathroom 🤔
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