Here's the thing. Our bathrooms have no heat. The rest of the house has radiator like things that span the baseboards, and unsightly though they may be, they do a pretty good job of keeping the house warm. However, when these were being installed, it seems, someone decided that the bathrooms really didn't need heat.
Now, I may be overstating that a bit, because technically our 2 upstairs bathrooms do have what I would call a heat lamp. It's an overhead light that warms the room up rather nicely, while you're in the shower, for instance. However, it's a bright light with a loud fan that doesn't get left on at night. So, of course, it gets downright freezing in there. Let's just say that first thing in the morning, that toilet seat can make you wish that you were the luckier gender who can stand to pee.
Right now, it is 14 degrees outside with a wind chill of -1. I am very thankful for heat of any kind and am not complaining about such a trivial thing. But it really does make me wonder why. Does it save that much money to skip the bathroom when installing heat vents? Does the cold water in the pipes make it counter productive to try to heat those rooms? Wouldn't the room where you are most likely to be naked and wet be the room that most needs heat? Or is it a master plan to cut down on showers, thus water consumption?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night. But why ask why? There are some things the world may never know.
