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Our bathrooms are cleaned every other week in our office and there is no urinal cake in the urinal. People use it and flush it and it never smells. I don't have a urinal in my home but if I did I wouldn't think of it as a negative. I guess I'm more shocked at the negative stigma associated with urinals.
manderly: I can guess it's the same reason some toilets are built with different flush settings? Save water?
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Originally Posted by donald cherry
wife thinks im nuts??she may be right?? anyway we are going to build a new house and i was thinking of putting in a urinal in the bathrooms,then i wont have to put seat down,wont miss my target,wont get any seat wet??floor wet, lets hear it guys/girls what do you think..........
I love the idea and have considered the possibility if my family ever gets around to custom building. There is no reason that your own personal urinal would get "really nasty". Public urinals at, for example, the ballpark get gross because some drunk ole' boy does not have control over his stream width, stream direction or flow rate and gets urine all over the floor at his feet. This forces the next guy, who may not be drunk or an ole' boy, to stand about 1/2 step farther from the target than he would over a pristine floor to avoid getting his shoes really nasty. Since he is farther away, when he starts to lose system pressure near the end of the delivery and during the three shakes he gets MORE urine on the floor. This forces the next guy to stand even further away and with a wider stance (which further erodes stream and flow rate control). In other words, I submit that the problem is not the urinal itself but rather their usually public nature. Think about it this way: if the only place you ever saw a toilet was at a movie theater, gas station, football game or other public venue (particularly those with alcohol sales on the premises) you would think that toilets were pretty danged disgusting also and probably wouldn't consider putting one in your home.
If you get a urinal, get the kind that sits in the floor and goes up the wall about four feet. Those are less likely to result in messiness.
Have you ever used a urinal while wearing shorts? Depending on the kind, most of them have quite a lot of spashback which you do not notice when wearing pants. It is just a tiny mist that will not show up, or smell bad or anything. Still I do not want it on me. I quit using them even in public after using them while wearing shorts.
They make high end urinals......I've personally installed them in 2,3,4 million dollar homes.
They do not smell, and because they use very little water they are better for the environment.
To add to the women verses men argument, I've worked as a plumber at UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke, in the dorms, frat, and sorority houses, and trust me women are by far nastier then men.
If you want a urinal get one, just design your bathroom accordingly.....
I find it amusing how disgusted, and down right nasty some of the responses were to your question, but after looking at the profiles I understood.
While a urinal doesn't "do" number two, a bathroom with only a toilet is just a single seater.
So you expect multiple people to use the bathroom at the same time because it has a urinal in it?
And not only doesn't it do number two, it also doesn't "do" women. So it is only covering 25% of possible situaions.
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