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It wouldn't be a turn off for me. Sometimes people use to much toilet paper or *ahem* have too much waste that can clog the toilet. Plungers can be a necessary evil. My buddy's teenage daughter refuses to "double flush" when doing number 2. His daughter also uses an exorbitant amount of TP so clogs are a common occurrence. They have no plumbing issues, unless you consider a teenage daughter to be one
Not to be TMI but I've gone to the bathroom at someone's home and barely used 3 squares of TP and the toilet clogged. They had no known plumbing issues but the toilet itself just couldn't handle any waste and TP (I later found out you must double or triple flush with that toilet). I will say I had a moment of panic when I didn't see a plunger. I later found one in the vanity closet but it felt odd having to go into someone's closet. Would've preferred it close by.
I find it more repulsing with the plunger isn't sitting in one of those holders or on a plate or something. To think people use the plunger in dirty fecal ridden toilet water and then plop onto the floor without some type of barrier is gross
I just think it's silly to get upset about a tool being visible and they don't have to be disgusting. I have four bathrooms and put this in three of them. The only comments have been asking where I found them.
Here's an easy solution: whether you see a plunger or not, as you're touring a house for sale, flush the toilet. If it doesn't overflow, no worries. Sheesh!
Here's an easy solution: whether you see a plunger or not, as you're touring a house for sale, flush the toilet. If it doesn't overflow, no worries. Sheesh!
There is somewhat of a difference between flushing water down a toilet versus flushing a load of poop and paper down.
It's not plain ol' water that causes the most problems.
I just think it's silly to get upset about a tool being visible and they don't have to be disgusting. I have four bathrooms and put this in three of them. The only comments have been asking where I found them.
Should you put away the bowl brush too? lol To me, especially as a woman, that brush would be a sign that the homeowners were clean people.
If you do not want to see any day to day, normal, cleaning equipment in the home, buy a VACANT house. If nobody is using the toilet at all, no need for toilet brushes.
Should you put away the bowl brush too? lol To me, especially as a woman, that brush would be a sign that the homeowners were clean people.
If you do not want to see any day to day, normal, cleaning equipment in the home, buy a VACANT house. If nobody is using the toilet at all, no need for toilet brushes.
I had to take a toilet brush (and bowl cleaner and air fresheners!) to our rental (that was unoccupied) just for showings - I had a lockbox that notified me every time the place was accessed by an agent & got in the habit of walking through right after - several times after showings doors & windows were left unlocked & a couple of times there were big bombs in the bowl. In fact, just a few days after the home was rented, the plumbing clogged at the street due to a big wad of butt-wipes that someone had flushed (apparently during one of the showings). This wasn't a toilet issue, I had installed new toilets in the home that will eat a bucket of golf-balls in a single flush. I never had an issue during the months i spent rehabbing the place & the tenants have been there 5 years now without another issue. I can certainly understand needing to use the restroom when touring homes, but I'd have never believed people would do so and *not* flush afterwards until I saw it with my own eyes.
Part of "staging" my vacant rentals now is a trip to the dollar store for hand-towels, toilet brushes, hand soaps & cleaning supplies just for touching up between showings. after just a week of showings a fully-rehabbed house will have bathrooms suitable for a truck stop unless you're cleaning them daily.
I toured a house once that had a huge turd in the toilet and the lid was wide open.
I had that happen at my squeaky-clean rental house a couple of times, as I posted above. After spending $25,000 replacing both bathrooms & the kitchen & getting the place clean enough to assemble hard-drives, I had to resist the urge to fish that puppy out of the bowl & put it in a flat-rate box addressed to the agent who last showed the house!
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