It's 2022, and I have just spent 18 minutes of my night off watching, and somehow enjoying, a video of a woman on the other side of the world cleaning her bath. This is not the adulthood I imagined when I was growing up.
As a person who did maintenance work like this for half a decade: I really admire your ingenuity and resourcefulness. Don't tell your apartment complex that you did this; they will try to hire you. You are cool. Ganbare.
So, there's a good chance that whoever lived there before never cleaned that part of the tub - which is why it was so horrible that first time. I'm hoping it's less gross in the future. I highly recommend a long bristle brush to make it easier for you to clean in the future.
Actually the bathroom was renovated before I moved in so it was just me 💀 but I didn’t figure out how to clean underneath for like 10 months so I understand why it got disgusting 😂😅😅😅 but will definitely be cleaner in the future now I figured it out!
@@TokidokiTraveller - LOL ok yeah - 10 months will do it LOL. SO glad you figured it out - you're also reminding me to go pull my refrigerator and stove out and clean behind those.... It's been over a year. Pray for me.
@@TokidokiTraveller I didn't even know you had to clean underneath it. I would have just cleaned the tub, the mirror, the floor and drain. Watching all that gunk and slime come out freaked me out. LOL.
This just triggered a memory of when I worked in Japan. I was living in a older apartment with the traditional bath/boiler unit. When I moved in I thought I should clean the system using some dissolvable cleaner tablets I’d found at family mart. All seemed to go well until I turned on the bath water heater on the boiler, when all the black goo started to emerge from the boiler. It was rank. Then when I pulled the plug, all the cleaner water dislodged a HUGE lump of goo, hair and other grossness that was about the size of the bath. So awful! Loved the video, keep up the great content!
@@gustavusadolphus425 that toaster oven is like the old school moment of getting a new phone and going through all the ringtones to pick the least annoying one that was also not the most commonly used. Back before we could just download ringtones.
Watching this as the stuff came out from under the tub I was like “Why?!? How?!? When?!? Who?!? I demand to meet the designer who did this to Japan!!!” The industrial designer in me is raging with questions. Then I went and hugged my bathroom after watching this. I used to think that it was high maintenance to clean. After seeing this video I was oh so very wrong. (I’m in Canada 🇨🇦)
I just went and thanked my bathtub for not being this kind of weird. Just a tub with normal drainage that is standard here in Germany. Nothing rank or funky going on.
I ended up asking someone in my wife's work how they clean it. Most of them just hire a cleaning company to do it. But one of them said they us a small pressure washer to spray under the tub and that seems to work really well for removing any buildup.
Oh lord. I nearly forgot cleaning companies were a thing, and I have a maid. I'll be hiring one once a year for this when I'm living in Japan... my pride doesn't prevent me from admitting I'm not dealing with this shit
You'd think with all the other automation in the tubs, that it would be a simple enough addition to include an automated under tub sprayer/cleaning cycle.
Or just have the tub removable since it's a wet room, all it really needs to be is a tub with a plug in the bottom everything else can be attached to the wall.
Essential video for anyone living in Tokyo. I was totally stumped by my first Japanese bathroom. It took me a few hours to figure out how the tub came apart for cleaning. I use Clorox Spray Foam for cleaning. Works great.
Watching this i am very grateful for my european bathtub which is has solid walls arround it. So no need for cleaning underneath because of no actual underneath :) Great job Emma
Glad to hear you're feeling better Emma. I wonder how many people never know to clean under there lol. It's so counter intuitive with Japanese bath rooms if it has to stay wet with not much ventilation/sunlight.
This is the tutorial I needed! I live in a building built in the 80’s and cleaning my bathroom is so stressful for me! Thank you for blessing us with this knowledge! Unfortunately, my bathtub front doesn’t come off and there’s not way to get behind it, but the bleach trick is going to be a game changer!
This has given me strength to finally tackle my bath and sink areas after a few months of ignoring them! Random anecdote: I remember a friend of mine found maggots in her sink drain once. D: It was an ooold house (and she had never cleaned it since she moved in.) Plus this was off the Japan sea so the humidity was waaaay worse than in Tokyo but…ugh…yeah ^^;;;
Don’t know why, but really liked this edition. So interesting to learn more about your chosen home country. You’ve come a long way from that teeny, tiny apartment.
To clean underneath the bath, you use a high pressure water steam jet / power wash and wand. The tip makes a powerful spray that breaks up any deposits and has an optional brush to scrub. Works a treat, and the steam side is a relatively small device.
This was an eye opener. I'm about to move into my first apartment here, so this is super helpful.Thanks for sharing and enjoy your trip home when it comes!
You might also want to get someone to clean the other side of the stainless drum in the washing machine. It gets dirty from time to time. (Just like the hidden parts of the bathtub)
You have answered my long time question. I distinctly remember seeing that Rachel and Jun video and wondering about this exact thing! This is the first video of yours I'm watching, so I'm not sure why you are living in Japan, but I wish you the best of luck. Always rewarding getting those small victories and figuring stuff out, even if it is just cleaning a bathroom. Great work 👍!
Id definitely recommend letting it air dry before closing it back up when you've just cleaned it. Mold mostly grows in cold damp dark environments like the under the tub but letting in a little bit of airflow by keeping the cover off for a bit while it dries could help with that when you've just soaked it. Honestly it would probably be cleaner if there wasn't a front cover at all
So glad my European bath (shallow and unsuitable for deep soaking though it may be) just drains directly into a pipe with a water lock that I never need to clean! And I did take the cover off my previous tub (because it was supposed to be a jacuzzi but it never jacuzzied, alas), but it just got a little dusty underneath. No biggie :)
When I lived in a Japanese apartment I didn't shower in the wet area of room, but angled the shower nozzle toward the tub. That minimized the the amount of water under the tub and is what I was accustomed to anyway. It was much easier to clean the inside of the tub if I wanted to bathe than cleaning under the tub. It also meant when I wished to step into the bathing room to hang clothes under the ceiling dryer, I didn't have to step on a wet floor or into bath room cleaning slippers. I hated stumbling over multiple pairs of slippers or drying wet feet in a 30 square meter home. Ridiculous. My theory is that Japanese design of baths, laundry systems, and kitchens makes cleaning the home as awkward and time consuming as possible so that the "woman at the back of the house" (translation of "wife") doesn't indulge in any ideas of a more fulfilling life outside the home. She (and by and large it is a "she" who cleans) will never have a moment to imagine the possibility. By comparison my Canadian home is a breeze to maintain without this sort of nuisance level cleaning required.
@@L337Dratini The automation is nice, for sure. I especially enjoyed the temperature control. Also, keeping water warm for multiple uses minimizes the negative impact on the environment of using an excessive amount of water. My preference is for a separate shower unit as well as a deep soaker bathtub (no jets--too noise and they too grow nasties in the nozzles). Best of both worlds, but not in the limited space available in most Japanese apartments.
As a person who absolutely abhors baths in general, if I lived in Japan I would just rip the entire thing out, tile the floor, and make it a large walk-in steam shower LOL
I had the same theory. It is an unnecessary pain to clean. Also it irks me that there is constantly standing water in the kitchen sink and bathtub under the drain net unless you drain it yourself (which is impractical to do every time you use either one)
Aw man.... I wasn't planning on cleaning my bathroom today but now I feel the urge to get up under that bathtub. I didn't realize we could actually clean under there and we've been in our house for 3 years! Wish me luck!
There‘s a video from „Life where I‘m from“ where Greg says that it is so much easier to clean under his new bathtub. Thanks to your great video I finally understand what he was talking about!
I love your videos Emma! You are the best. :D I mean, I can't imagine watching a whole video of someone cleaning their floor drain if it wasn't you making it fun and interesting. :)
I have a stand in shower with a similar problem, parts around the rim of the glass are just impossible to clean because you can't get to it. So I can say, personally, that black sludge of death was an all too familiar sight for me. When I eventually move to Japan it's good to know my skills will be transferable lmao
Thanks for this! The title threw me off and I didn’t know what to expect but this was really interesting. My wife and I were glued to the cleaning method!
Emma I always look forward to your videos because you have the BEST EDITS and best sense of humor!! Im so happy that you get to go visit home soon! Keep up the great content! We love you!
It blows my mind why anyone would design a bath drain like that. Sooo much better to just have the drain going straight into the pipes. Happy you found a way to clean it. I'm certain the people before you never did, which is such an unsettling thought, lol. -
To build on this: This design is also better for flooding and maintenance. If there is a leak, it does not flood the person below you. It floods that nice giant stainless pan. Any water appliance/vessel/etc should have this in any building, even single-story.
@@Kurufinwe_Fayanaro I member on watching on NHK a japanology plus on Bathrooms, and they mentioned that because Japan didn't historically have water hookups in individual apartments that everything was designed to be added to buildings whereas the western style is designed for new construction.
I'm pretty sure the design has something to do with japanese bathrooms being wet rooms. I assume that's not only thr drain for the bath but for the entire room.
You almost need like a extendable duster but with bristles so you can really get scrubbing down there. But also watching this makes me imagine SO many people probably are not cleaning under their tubs if they are set up like this 🥴
I moved into my apartment in Japan a year ago with my husband (who's Japanese) and last week he said we should probably clean under the tub. I had no idea we were supposed to clean it! It's the stuff off nightmares! Thanks for showing how is done. Wish me luck
A couple of cleaning options, if the gap is bigger than an inch, try a dryer vent cleaning kit. Its a very flexible pole with a brush on the end. If the gap is very small, get a cpap cleaning brush. It is a super thin bottle brush head on a long flexible coil. Also, an endoscope camera would let you see in under there so you know what you are dealing with. They have really cheap ones that hook up to your cell phone.
I can relate to those sobbing while cleaning horrible thing noises 😭 I always try to remember my grandma. "Grandma would just do this. She would just do this without complaining and it would be done. Be grandma."
Here in germany, we have long, bendable hard brushes for the space behind the radiator and inbetween its heating elements, because there also will build up a lot of stuff (spiderwebs and dust mostly). I think this would be the fist thing I would have tried, scrubbing with those long brushes unterneath the tub, most likely get it stuck or damage something.
k- questions: 1- what is the name of the window defogging fluid? Where in Japan sells it? 2- Can you get a kitchen baggie for the bathroom drain? Thanks for this....I was traumatized but it necessary.
Shaving cream works actually. Clean the glass first. Afterwards just spread the shaving cream on the glass. It doesn't matter how long it stays on just wipe it down afterwards. The cream/foam leaves a thin film preventing some fog. Overtime it does go away. Some household products can do the same affect, as long as they create a thin film on the surface of the glass or whatever.
White vinegar works for at least two showers before it needs redone. Come to think of it, half of that and water in a spray bottle is an amazing glass/mirror cleaner. It dries streakless, too.
Not sure if anyone has said it yet (cant find a comment mentioning it) but you have to also clean out the dirty water or something from the washing machine. It's explained in the manual for it but you can also look for a liitle door on the bottom of the front or just the bottom. There are quite a few videos about it so good luck!
That's very serious cleaning. I think no one ever cleaned under our tub growing up, and it was fine :) I usually just rinse it under the sink... the plug I mean :) Thanks for tips :)
I like how you can make what is clearly an arduous and mundane task entertaining to watch. Master crafter of content creation! So glad to hear you're doing well and really hope to do manage to go back and see friends and family soon!
I have never used my bathroom without a bathroom drain net around the drain cover to quickly remove gunk when cleaning. Same for the kitchen sink. Both can be a nightmare to remove things clinging on for life. (could be 100 yen stores, or from drugstores) They come in different shapes and sizes for the different bathroom designs.
I like Japanese toilets but Japanese bathrooms do seem overly complicated. I love you and your videos and wish you all the happiness and joy you are able to endure! ❤👍
I'm 5' tall.. that doorway to the shower and bathroom area look FANTASTIC!!! I would 100% have those in my apartment or house just so I could watch all my tall friends hunch over to fit through the doorways
My first Japanese apartment was like this, only the side of the bath wasn't removable. After most showers i struggled to keep under there clean. It was also old and nasty to begin with. I wish I knew the bag trick at the time. I have no idea why the bath doesn't have its own drain... would be so much easier
@@csh22a not sure why you felt the need to say that. I haven't misunderstood anything. There is only 1 drain, the bath water just falls out the bottom all under the bath then into the combined drain, making a much larger area to be cleaned. That's clearly shown in the video and exactly how my old bath was, in my 15 years in Japan I've lived in 3 apartments that have that same style. The last apartment I renovated, still the design was similar. I've recently bought a house that has a much larger bath and the drain is separate. I just pour drain cleaner down the hole sometimes and job done.
@@csh22a Absolutely no misunderstanding on my end, the water from the bathup in this video drains from the plug hole and the water goes all over the floor under the bath then into the combined drain. The same as my last 3 apartments in Japan. I have lived here 15 years all my adult life. Only now that I have a house is it separate. Perhaps you just got lucky because separate drains certainly isn't the norm.
Oxi Clean is a type of Hydrogen peroxide which is often marketed as color safe "bleach". In the US we have a long wire with a brush on the end used to clean things like under a stove or refrigerator or even in a ceiling fan, I wonder if you could find something like that there to help clean under the tub also it would be good practice to dump some vinegar under there so it doesn't build up. Interesting video, I'm a handy man and have done my fair share of bathroom renovations and it's so interesting to me how other countries have different systems. Thanks for sharing!
Also from a young mum who had no idea how to clean tricky bathroom gunk for the longest time maybe some mould killer spray would get rid of those stains, I used to get the same thing in my shower corners 😊
Fun fact: that black slime is called biofilm! It also builds up in your dishwasher and washing machine! In the USA, they make different types of cleaners that you put in your washer and dishwasher. To clean you run either the cleaning cycle or the hottest, longest cycle on your machine. In most US washing machines you can also use bleach, but each machine is different, so you should check the manual. I don't know if any of this applies to Japanese washing machines.
i wonder if you could get a drain brush under their to scrub it? its kind of like a long skinny bristle brush that's flexible (its used in drains to pull out hair). you could probably get more of the nooks and crannies.
Does the bath drain into the steel tray? If so I would fill the bath up to the hottest temp and fill with bleach powder and open the drain to flush it down. Also maybe take the shower head off and use your finger over the hose to try and jet the water down the back of the bath.
Thats pretty much what she did though? She just skipped filling the tub and filled the drain pan instead. I think she can use a toilet brush to get the back area or even just put a scrub brush on a mop head
Glad to see you are ok!! You're a lady of many talents!! Now that you figured out how to clean that, it would be easy to do it without all the gross stuff!!
It's 2022, and I have just spent 18 minutes of my night off watching, and somehow enjoying, a video of a woman on the other side of the world cleaning her bath. This is not the adulthood I imagined when I was growing up.
Only Emma could make cleaning a bathroom exciting enough for me to watch.
And funny. I laughed out loud so many times.
It was hilarious! (It also made me appreciate my North American bathroom SO much more!)
As a person who did maintenance work like this for half a decade: I really admire your ingenuity and resourcefulness. Don't tell your apartment complex that you did this; they will try to hire you.
You are cool. Ganbare.
I about died at the 2:20 "hello mother" and glad I waited to take a sip of my coffee, your humor in editing is greatly enjoyable.
bro that 'hi baby" fucking omg lol
@@joebob7552 indeed, she's wonderful at comedic editing
Gave me alien vibes lol
@@elenhin Exactly what I was thinking. Ha! 👽
stormi you look like mommy baby 😌
So, there's a good chance that whoever lived there before never cleaned that part of the tub - which is why it was so horrible that first time. I'm hoping it's less gross in the future. I highly recommend a long bristle brush to make it easier for you to clean in the future.
Actually the bathroom was renovated before I moved in so it was just me 💀 but I didn’t figure out how to clean underneath for like 10 months so I understand why it got disgusting 😂😅😅😅 but will definitely be cleaner in the future now I figured it out!
@@TokidokiTraveller - LOL ok yeah - 10 months will do it LOL. SO glad you figured it out - you're also reminding me to go pull my refrigerator and stove out and clean behind those.... It's been over a year. Pray for me.
@@TokidokiTraveller I didn't even know you had to clean underneath it. I would have just cleaned the tub, the mirror, the floor and drain. Watching all that gunk and slime come out freaked me out. LOL.
@@adelletrotta I purposely averted my eyes when she got there. Laughed at her sound effects.
@@michellethong8476 How does one clean the uncleanable? The fridge and stove are the worst. 🤮
This just triggered a memory of when I worked in Japan. I was living in a older apartment with the traditional bath/boiler unit. When I moved in I thought I should clean the system using some dissolvable cleaner tablets I’d found at family mart. All seemed to go well until I turned on the bath water heater on the boiler, when all the black goo started to emerge from the boiler. It was rank. Then when I pulled the plug, all the cleaner water dislodged a HUGE lump of goo, hair and other grossness that was about the size of the bath. So awful!
Loved the video, keep up the great content!
I would move immediately. Not dealing with that, thank you very much
I'm like a Japanese drainage system: I have many layers.
I aspire to be like the toaster oven, but deep down I know that I will likely never have such musical talent
@@gustavusadolphus425 that toaster oven is like the old school moment of getting a new phone and going through all the ringtones to pick the least annoying one that was also not the most commonly used. Back before we could just download ringtones.
That was the original line for Shrek, but they didn't think people would _get_ it 🙄😒
So then you are an ogre?
Watching this as the stuff came out from under the tub I was like “Why?!? How?!? When?!? Who?!? I demand to meet the designer who did this to Japan!!!” The industrial designer in me is raging with questions. Then I went and hugged my bathroom after watching this. I used to think that it was high maintenance to clean. After seeing this video I was oh so very wrong. (I’m in Canada 🇨🇦)
I just went and thanked my bathtub for not being this kind of weird. Just a tub with normal drainage that is standard here in Germany. Nothing rank or funky going on.
I ended up asking someone in my wife's work how they clean it. Most of them just hire a cleaning company to do it. But one of them said they us a small pressure washer to spray under the tub and that seems to work really well for removing any buildup.
What is the cleaning company called? I live in Japan and I'm afraid to look at it 😭
Oh lord. I nearly forgot cleaning companies were a thing, and I have a maid. I'll be hiring one once a year for this when I'm living in Japan... my pride doesn't prevent me from admitting I'm not dealing with this shit
You'd think with all the other automation in the tubs, that it would be a simple enough addition to include an automated under tub sprayer/cleaning cycle.
Or just have the space big enough to reach back there.
Or just have tubing for the water to flow through like everyone else in the world.
Or just have the tub removable since it's a wet room, all it really needs to be is a tub with a plug in the bottom everything else can be attached to the wall.
I've gained newfound appreciation for my bathtub that doesn't require cleaning
Essential video for anyone living in Tokyo. I was totally stumped by my first Japanese bathroom. It took me a few hours to figure out how the tub came apart for cleaning. I use Clorox Spray Foam for cleaning. Works great.
Watching this i am very grateful for my european bathtub which is has solid walls arround it. So no need for cleaning underneath because of no actual underneath :)
Great job Emma
Same here in Australia 🎉
well its not like that in the northern part of europe, we can even remove the bathtub if we dont want it lol
@@Nakiimushi who wouldn want a tub? Removal over my dead body!
Glad to hear you're feeling better Emma. I wonder how many people never know to clean under there lol. It's so counter intuitive with Japanese bath rooms if it has to stay wet with not much ventilation/sunlight.
I can't believe I just sat here watching her clean her bathroom instead of cleaning my own right now. hahaha
Kevin is adorable, he needs more screentime.
This is the tutorial I needed! I live in a building built in the 80’s and cleaning my bathroom is so stressful for me! Thank you for blessing us with this knowledge! Unfortunately, my bathtub front doesn’t come off and there’s not way to get behind it, but the bleach trick is going to be a game changer!
This has given me strength to finally tackle my bath and sink areas after a few months of ignoring them! Random anecdote: I remember a friend of mine found maggots in her sink drain once. D: It was an ooold house (and she had never cleaned it since she moved in.) Plus this was off the Japan sea so the humidity was waaaay worse than in Tokyo but…ugh…yeah ^^;;;
Don’t know why, but really liked this edition. So interesting to learn more about your chosen home country. You’ve come a long way from that teeny, tiny apartment.
I'm never going to complain about cleaning my bathroom again also glad you finally get to go home an I hope you have a great time
To clean underneath the bath, you use a high pressure water steam jet / power wash and wand. The tip makes a powerful spray that breaks up any deposits and has an optional brush to scrub. Works a treat, and the steam side is a relatively small device.
You are the only youtuber where I actually enjoy watching someone talk about cleaning their bathroom.
This was an eye opener. I'm about to move into my first apartment here, so this is super helpful.Thanks for sharing and enjoy your trip home when it comes!
Some household cleaning jobs just need to be done more regularly. I have the feeling this is one that needs to be done every 2nd week or something.
You might also want to get someone to clean the other side of the stainless drum in the washing machine. It gets dirty from time to time. (Just like the hidden parts of the bathtub)
Kevin, why are you in Emma's bathroom? Do she sit on you often? i have so many questions Kevin.
The linty slime from the inner parts of the washing machine would require a warning like we got for the black slime in this video.
you can buy washer cleaning tablets
You're absolutely right. When I was watching the video and the black goo came out it reminded me of the time I first deep cleaned my washing machine.
You have answered my long time question. I distinctly remember seeing that Rachel and Jun video and wondering about this exact thing! This is the first video of yours I'm watching, so I'm not sure why you are living in Japan, but I wish you the best of luck. Always rewarding getting those small victories and figuring stuff out, even if it is just cleaning a bathroom. Great work 👍!
Id definitely recommend letting it air dry before closing it back up when you've just cleaned it. Mold mostly grows in cold damp dark environments like the under the tub but letting in a little bit of airflow by keeping the cover off for a bit while it dries could help with that when you've just soaked it. Honestly it would probably be cleaner if there wasn't a front cover at all
So glad my European bath (shallow and unsuitable for deep soaking though it may be) just drains directly into a pipe with a water lock that I never need to clean! And I did take the cover off my previous tub (because it was supposed to be a jacuzzi but it never jacuzzied, alas), but it just got a little dusty underneath. No biggie :)
In all the animes, they all have tubs that are sealed at the bottom, and the water goes into a tub-length drain. That would be nice.
When I lived in a Japanese apartment I didn't shower in the wet area of room, but angled the shower nozzle toward the tub. That minimized the the amount of water under the tub and is what I was accustomed to anyway. It was much easier to clean the inside of the tub if I wanted to bathe than cleaning under the tub.
It also meant when I wished to step into the bathing room to hang clothes under the ceiling dryer, I didn't have to step on a wet floor or into bath room cleaning slippers. I hated stumbling over multiple pairs of slippers or drying wet feet in a 30 square meter home. Ridiculous.
My theory is that Japanese design of baths, laundry systems, and kitchens makes cleaning the home as awkward and time consuming as possible so that the "woman at the back of the house" (translation of "wife") doesn't indulge in any ideas of a more fulfilling life outside the home. She (and by and large it is a "she" who cleans) will never have a moment to imagine the possibility. By comparison my Canadian home is a breeze to maintain without this sort of nuisance level cleaning required.
I'm in Canada, too! I wish I had a tub that was automated and kept warm, but combined with the western way of having a showerhead in the bathtub.
@@L337Dratini The automation is nice, for sure. I especially enjoyed the temperature control. Also, keeping water warm for multiple uses minimizes the negative impact on the environment of using an excessive amount of water. My preference is for a separate shower unit as well as a deep soaker bathtub (no jets--too noise and they too grow nasties in the nozzles). Best of both worlds, but not in the limited space available in most Japanese apartments.
As a person who absolutely abhors baths in general, if I lived in Japan I would just rip the entire thing out, tile the floor, and make it a large walk-in steam shower LOL
@@valarya I don't know what the renovation rules might be, but you'd have to own the place. Not possible in a rental.
I had the same theory. It is an unnecessary pain to clean. Also it irks me that there is constantly standing water in the kitchen sink and bathtub under the drain net unless you drain it yourself (which is impractical to do every time you use either one)
HAHA! Great video, thanks! The Rachel & Jun video from long time ago always runs thru my head when I clean my standard North American bathroom.
"hello mother" 😂😂 I was already gonna subscribe to you, but that set it in concrete.
I lost it at the squeegee noises. I am barely awake
I’m with you in the barely awake category
Aw man.... I wasn't planning on cleaning my bathroom today but now I feel the urge to get up under that bathtub. I didn't realize we could actually clean under there and we've been in our house for 3 years! Wish me luck!
There‘s a video from „Life where I‘m from“ where Greg says that it is so much easier to clean under his new bathtub. Thanks to your great video I finally understand what he was talking about!
I love your videos Emma! You are the best. :D I mean, I can't imagine watching a whole video of someone cleaning their floor drain if it wasn't you making it fun and interesting. :)
Perhaps one of the most practical and helpful YT videos I've ever watched- thank you for posting!
Never thought I'd enjoy a bathroom cleaner tutorial and black slime so much. So entertaining.
I needed this video to soothe my brain from the pain for university
I have a stand in shower with a similar problem, parts around the rim of the glass are just impossible to clean because you can't get to it. So I can say, personally, that black sludge of death was an all too familiar sight for me. When I eventually move to Japan it's good to know my skills will be transferable lmao
I live in a really hard water area so my biggest problem is limescale! Also mould. This was gross and incredibly satisfying to watch
This is a great Vid, and very informative. your editing is really funny and energetic xD
Put the tiny heater in the "wet room" to dry your clothes and maybe put a towel or curtain up in the door frame to keep it heated
Love your tutorial videos, so relaxing to watch.
I'll be rewatching this video as I clean my bathroom this weekend. Haha for emotional support while handling the nasty bits
The noises you made when the slime chunks came out? *chef's kiss*
Thanks for this! The title threw me off and I didn’t know what to expect but this was really interesting. My wife and I were glued to the cleaning method!
Emma I always look forward to your videos because you have the BEST EDITS and best sense of humor!! Im so happy that you get to go visit home soon! Keep up the great content! We love you!
Really appreciate the big sister life advice
It blows my mind why anyone would design a bath drain like that. Sooo much better to just have the drain going straight into the pipes. Happy you found a way to clean it. I'm certain the people before you never did, which is such an unsettling thought, lol. -
If the drain catch goes into the pipe, it gets clogged very easily. The Japanese design is much tougher to clog.
To build on this: This design is also better for flooding and maintenance. If there is a leak, it does not flood the person below you. It floods that nice giant stainless pan. Any water appliance/vessel/etc should have this in any building, even single-story.
@@Kurufinwe_Fayanaro I member on watching on NHK a japanology plus on Bathrooms, and they mentioned that because Japan didn't historically have water hookups in individual apartments that everything was designed to be added to buildings whereas the western style is designed for new construction.
@@Brian-jv8iy I'm speaking of the design in the video. It resists clogging because of its larger surface area.
I'm pretty sure the design has something to do with japanese bathrooms being wet rooms. I assume that's not only thr drain for the bath but for the entire room.
You almost need like a extendable duster but with bristles so you can really get scrubbing down there. But also watching this makes me imagine SO many people probably are not cleaning under their tubs if they are set up like this 🥴
Ngl but i found it super satisfying seeing the black slime coming through 😳😳
Got good water pressure at least. What a crazy design for a bath drain. Good job and great video.
How to clean bathroom...Emma's Tutorial
Perfecto!!
What a cute little bathroom, at the very least you are preventing others from going through the same troubleshooting issues
I moved into my apartment in Japan a year ago with my husband (who's Japanese) and last week he said we should probably clean under the tub. I had no idea we were supposed to clean it! It's the stuff off nightmares! Thanks for showing how is done. Wish me luck
I don't know if my humour is just broken but the 'hello mother' and the whole Kevin segment absolutely killed me
A couple of cleaning options, if the gap is bigger than an inch, try a dryer vent cleaning kit. Its a very flexible pole with a brush on the end. If the gap is very small, get a cpap cleaning brush. It is a super thin bottle brush head on a long flexible coil. Also, an endoscope camera would let you see in under there so you know what you are dealing with. They have really cheap ones that hook up to your cell phone.
The plastic bag plug is so genius and I'm so mad I never thought of it. This video was sooooo helpful.
I remembered this from your stream and the first words out of my mouth when the video started was "Oh Emma, oh Emma, oh no" XD
I can relate to those sobbing while cleaning horrible thing noises 😭
I always try to remember my grandma. "Grandma would just do this. She would just do this without complaining and it would be done. Be grandma."
Your humor is phenominal. Great video. Lived in Japan for a year and the nostalgia is palpable.
Haven’t seen your videos for a while but I gotta say I am LOVING the new hair. ❤️
God, this was so satisfying. Cleaning! Information! Excitement!
Here in germany, we have long, bendable hard brushes for the space behind the radiator and inbetween its heating elements, because there also will build up a lot of stuff (spiderwebs and dust mostly).
I think this would be the fist thing I would have tried, scrubbing with those long brushes unterneath the tub, most likely get it stuck or damage something.
k- questions:
1- what is the name of the window defogging fluid? Where in Japan sells it?
2- Can you get a kitchen baggie for the bathroom drain?
Thanks for this....I was traumatized but it necessary.
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1. I bought one from Daiso, dunno name. But it didn't work on my mirror...
you can use head and shoulders shampoo.
We use it in the inside of our helmet visor and works... to some extent.
Shaving cream works actually. Clean the glass first. Afterwards just spread the shaving cream on the glass. It doesn't matter how long it stays on just wipe it down afterwards. The cream/foam leaves a thin film preventing some fog. Overtime it does go away.
Some household products can do the same affect, as long as they create a thin film on the surface of the glass or whatever.
White vinegar works for at least two showers before it needs redone. Come to think of it, half of that and water in a spray bottle is an amazing glass/mirror cleaner. It dries streakless, too.
This is an interesting first video of yours that UA-cam randomly recommended 😂 I love you already! Very bubbly
Not sure if anyone has said it yet (cant find a comment mentioning it) but you have to also clean out the dirty water or something from the washing machine. It's explained in the manual for it but you can also look for a liitle door on the bottom of the front or just the bottom. There are quite a few videos about it so good luck!
Not one of your more visually beautiful videos Emma, but yet another interesting insight into Japanese life
The editing is perfect, funny and informative.
That's very serious cleaning. I think no one ever cleaned under our tub growing up, and it was fine :) I usually just rinse it under the sink... the plug I mean :) Thanks for tips :)
I like how you can make what is clearly an arduous and mundane task entertaining to watch. Master crafter of content creation! So glad to hear you're doing well and really hope to do manage to go back and see friends and family soon!
9:12 omg help i'm crying with that zoom in
The slow zoom on the toothbrush - classic!
I have never used my bathroom without a bathroom drain net around the drain cover to quickly remove gunk when cleaning.
Same for the kitchen sink.
Both can be a nightmare to remove things clinging on for life.
(could be 100 yen stores, or from drugstores)
They come in different shapes and sizes for the different bathroom designs.
This was a great video Emma!
I don't have a tub like this but this video reminded me that I to should clean my bathtub.
Cheers to clean bathtubs!
I like Japanese toilets but Japanese bathrooms do seem overly complicated. I love you and your videos and wish you all the happiness and joy you are able to endure! ❤👍
I'm 5' tall.. that doorway to the shower and bathroom area look FANTASTIC!!!
I would 100% have those in my apartment or house just so I could watch all my tall friends hunch over to fit through the doorways
" 'lotta conditioner, 'lotta hair," I absolutely LOST it.
Why is this soo entertaining! It’s truly fascinating!
My first Japanese apartment was like this, only the side of the bath wasn't removable. After most showers i struggled to keep under there clean. It was also old and nasty to begin with. I wish I knew the bag trick at the time.
I have no idea why the bath doesn't have its own drain... would be so much easier
@@csh22a not sure why you felt the need to say that. I haven't misunderstood anything.
There is only 1 drain, the bath water just falls out the bottom all under the bath then into the combined drain, making a much larger area to be cleaned. That's clearly shown in the video and exactly how my old bath was, in my 15 years in Japan I've lived in 3 apartments that have that same style. The last apartment I renovated, still the design was similar. I've recently bought a house that has a much larger bath and the drain is separate. I just pour drain cleaner down the hole sometimes and job done.
@@csh22a Absolutely no misunderstanding on my end, the water from the bathup in this video drains from the plug hole and the water goes all over the floor under the bath then into the combined drain. The same as my last 3 apartments in Japan. I have lived here 15 years all my adult life. Only now that I have a house is it separate.
Perhaps you just got lucky because separate drains certainly isn't the norm.
Your editing around Kevin was hilarious!🤣
I'm glad you're feeling better! Your content, even the times you were faking it till you made it, cheer me up on some of the days of sad.
I'm going to come back to this when I'm not having lunch.
Oxi Clean is a type of Hydrogen peroxide which is often marketed as color safe "bleach". In the US we have a long wire with a brush on the end used to clean things like under a stove or refrigerator or even in a ceiling fan, I wonder if you could find something like that there to help clean under the tub also it would be good practice to dump some vinegar under there so it doesn't build up. Interesting video, I'm a handy man and have done my fair share of bathroom renovations and it's so interesting to me how other countries have different systems. Thanks for sharing!
Man, I HATE cleaning my bathroom so much. Trust Emma to make me genuinely want to clean it 😂
I love that tub !!! In the US when the water gets cold it’s time to get out 😕.
I was so excited when I saw they opened our borders again. I’m so happy for you ❤️😁
Also from a young mum who had no idea how to clean tricky bathroom gunk for the longest time maybe some mould killer spray would get rid of those stains, I used to get the same thing in my shower corners 😊
Fun fact: that black slime is called biofilm! It also builds up in your dishwasher and washing machine! In the USA, they make different types of cleaners that you put in your washer and dishwasher. To clean you run either the cleaning cycle or the hottest, longest cycle on your machine. In most US washing machines you can also use bleach, but each machine is different, so you should check the manual. I don't know if any of this applies to Japanese washing machines.
Wow that bath drain is impractical af
i wonder if you could get a drain brush under their to scrub it? its kind of like a long skinny bristle brush that's flexible (its used in drains to pull out hair). you could probably get more of the nooks and crannies.
Why did "hello mother" make me laugh as hard as I did for as long as I did?
I have always wondered what happens under the tub! Thank you!
Thank you for posting this! I’ve been in Japan for two months and I could not figure out how to clean under my bath tub 😂
I just love how she says “water”
Does the bath drain into the steel tray?
If so I would fill the bath up to the hottest temp and fill with bleach powder and open the drain to flush it down.
Also maybe take the shower head off and use your finger over the hose to try and jet the water down the back of the bath.
Thats pretty much what she did though? She just skipped filling the tub and filled the drain pan instead. I think she can use a toilet brush to get the back area or even just put a scrub brush on a mop head
"Hello Mother" 🤣
Genuinely these videos are so helpful since you plan to move to Japan soon-ish LMAO, thanks so much Emma!!
That plug idea is ingenious.
Glad to see you are ok!! You're a lady of many talents!! Now that you figured out how to clean that, it would be easy to do it without all the gross stuff!!
"Hi, babee/Hi, mother" Japanese xenomorph 💀