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Originally Posted by manderly6
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.
Assuming a toilet enclosure, sure I would expect multiple people to use the bathroom at once. Alternatively, assuming multiple male children.
About the other bit: that 25% is raw data. I think that if you really weight the possible situations by their likeliness to occur, you get something like a 75-80% improvement in efficiency and the urinal may have the effect of giving the home's female occupants their own bathroom elsewhere by virtue of the urinal's male-specific gravitational pull.
Now I am going to answer this, and I am a GIRL, a very neatnick girl, very OCD about cleanliness. I would love to have a urinal in my husband's bathroom if there were a way to keep it sanitary on a daily basis -- I wouldn't want the darn thing to stink, and I wouldn't want to scrub it every day. The problem is that my dear hubby is over 6 ft tall with very long legs....the taller the guy, the more splash there is when he pees! His aim is good, but he can't avoid the backsplash out onto my floor, walls, even my wastebasket! Gosh, it must be nice to be married to a short guy! Me thinks the only solution is to ask him to sit down on the toilet when he goes -- he would tell me to get a life, so I won't go there. He's such a great guy -- hate to trade him in for a shorter hubby! Honestly, life's so full of major problems ;-)
Interesting thread. When I was doing a massive house remodel with a new master suite, I did some research into female urinals as I actually saw them in some old women's dorms on campus! At the time of the remodel, no women's urinals available. I did splurge for a bidet (love it!) and for the new downstairs bathroom, a Toto, bidet toilet seat. What a shame there isn't a good quality, anti-splatter UNI-urinal for home installs.
Faster, easier, we are designed that way. Women can pee standing up too. In the 1930s, theatres often had urinals for women as well. Fashion changes made them less practical in the U.S., but they are still around in other cultures.
Faster, easier, we are designed that way. Women can pee standing up too.
Fair enough, dynimagely.
harry, you're not designed "that way" primarily so you can pee standing up. There was another idea in mind for your design. But I get what you're saying.
In the man-cave, I put in a urinal in the bathroom , and it works fine. Given that it is a music studio too, it is sort of a place for us guys to hide (just kidding). Put in bidets in the upstairs bathrooms (to be honest, I had never used one before, and it sprayed me in the face )
Urinals are a little funky in a house, but they do what they are designed to do.
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But I get what you're saying.
