One of the strangest things about a British home is its bathroom. It is a room with a long low bath-tub, a wash basin and a toilet. It is a room with many built-in problems. The first problem is this: if someone is having a bath, and someone else wants to use the toilet, they have to wait. This is not always very pleasant.
The second problem is: many bathrooms have carpet on the floor. If you spill water (or anything else) onto it, the carpet gets wet and is not easy to clean. Another problem is that bathrooms are always upstairs. The water pressure is not strong so when you have a shower, the water comes out very slowly.
Another problem is that many homes do not have a shower, only a bath. You wash yourself in the bath water which is soon full of dirt and soap. Because the bath is low and the surface area great, the bath water quickly cools. So within five minutes of getting into the hot clean bath water, you find yourself sitting in cold, dirty water. Then when you get out of the bath, you find you still have soap on your skin. You don't feel clean even though you have just stepped out of the bath!
Not surprisingly many British people do not have a bath every day. On average people have perhaps two baths a week, especially in winter. One reason is the cost: to heat a bath full of water is expensive. It is rare for two people to use the same bath water; the water is used once and then thrown away. The dirty water leaves a dirty mark on the bathtub after you have used it. So before the next person can use it, they have to clean the bathtub.
Last summer I spent a week in Oxford staying in a university college. It is one of the most famous colleges in England with beautiful old buildings. The building I was in had many baths, but only one shower. It was in a small room in the basement. There was no window and there was nowhere for the steam to escape. After a five-minute shower, the room was like a sauna. The walls were dripping wet with water. Because many people wanted to use it, there was a time limit for each person. Before entering the shower, you pressed a button. This gave you ten minutes of hot water. After that, all you got was cold.