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Bathroom Problems
Coming out of CES, there was a suite of new innovations from smart cities to pets to food and everything in between. However when we bring up innovations that are happening in the bathroom, questions on whether change is needed? While the bathroom hasn’t changed in 100 years, if it ain’t broke why fix it? I think the bathroom is the business around the bathroom is broken and here are 3 obvious problems.
Cleaning The Bathroom Sucks.
There is no elegant way to say that the entire premise of cleaning the bathroom sucks. As the room is one of the most frequented rooms in the home and contains a mixture of creams & plumbing, the room needs to be cleaned frequently. From the nature of how showers, toilets, and sinks are used, tough chemicals are needed to clean the room. Despite using tough chemicals, the cleanliness of the room last at most one week before the room begins to decay again into a mess. While housekeeping service helps, it is extremely expensive and there is a need to clean daily to keep the room presentable.
Bathrooms Break and Fixing It Is a Mystery
From frequent use and running water through pipes, eventually something breaks in the bathroom. A shower drip, a toilet that doesn’t flush, to a pipe eventually cracking. Despite these frequent problems, when something breaks it is a…