Watch It Wednesday: The Matt Damon Bathroom Strike

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In today’s amusing Watch it Wednesday bathroom related video actor Matt Damon vows not to go to the toilet. His toilet strike is in aid of Water.org, a charity that Matt is co-founder of.

He humorously holds a press conference and mentions World Toilet Day, something that stumps the journalists watching (who are all actors, some of them quite recognisable!) and then goes on to say that the toilet has saved the more lives than any other invention in the history of the toilet. According to Matt more people have mobile phones than toilets, with 2.5 billion lacking proper sanitation around the world. Due to this he vows not to go to the bathroom until everyone has a toilet, although amusingly he doesn’t explain how else he’s going to get rid of bodily waste (he’ll be holding it in for a long time!). It’s not just Matt who’s supporting the strike either, as celebrities like Bono, Richard Branson and Olivia Wilde have also come out to say they are supporting the strike.

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Obviously this is all a bit of fun and we’re guessing that Matt isn’t really going to avoid going to the toilet (unless he happens to have a handy bush behind his house or something!), but it really is for an important cause. According to Water.org a child dies from water-related illness every 21 seconds, with the majority of illness caused by fecal matter that has not been properly disposed of. It’s clear that there is a massive need for toilets around the world, and Water.org is working to try and fulfil that need.

You can support the cause by visiting the website and getting involved, either by spreading the word across social networks or giving a small donation. Matt says that $25 (about £16) can give someone access to a toilet for life, so while you can laugh at the videos that Water.org is putting out the message is still serious and they’re doing a great job at getting the message out there.

We don’t suggest you completely avoid going to the toilet though, that can’t be good for you!

Image from Waterdogorg Flickr account. Licensed under Creative Commons.

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Monday Moment #9: Out With the Old, In With the Old

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Monday in Old English literally translates as “moon’s day”, which is similar to the Germanic interpretation “day of the moon” and the Japanese interpretation that also means “day of the moon”. Given that I’m telling you all this you’d think that I’d be presenting you with a bathroom that had something to do with the moon, and although that stunning window could let some brilliant moon light in I’m only telling you this because I thought it was a new fact for you to kick off a fresh week with. So, if someone ever wants to know about the origin of the word Monday you’ll be handily equipped with the answer, not that it’s something that tends to come up in conversation all that often – although you’d be amazed at the kind of random topics we discuss at the Boundary Bathrooms offices!

We do love this bathroom though, I’ve been passing it around the office today and people are impressed. It was designed by Charmean Niethart Interiors in the USA (posted all home interior photos heaven, Houzz.com) and includes some lovely walnut panelled walls that give the impression your bathroom is in some kind of posh stately home. It’s a style of décor known as ‘French Colonial’, which is inspired by the style of architecture the French adopted during their colonisation phase. It’s quite prevalent in certain areas of the USA, although the rest of the world has been somewhat reluctant to embrace it. I think it looks brilliant though, and this bathroom gives a decent balance between the old world and modernity.

Even the bath is a stand-out, which is hard in a bathroom that has so much going on already. Its ripple like curves make for an alluring site, and the Victorian style bath tap simply adds to the attraction (you can get something similar in our Burlington bath taps collection). You can just about make out the shower, but if you have a look at the rest of the images (including the rest of the house too) over on Houzz you can see it in full, as well as the walnut panelled vanity units and a marble countertop running down the opposite side of the bathroom.

How would you feel about adopting this style of décor in the UK? Would it blend in? Is it time for a trend on this scale?

As always, you can see our latest spectacular picks on our Dream Bathrooms Pinterest page.

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The Most Common and Most Unusual Things That People Flush Down The Toilet

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A recent story about city workers in the USA going to extraordinary lengths to retrieve an anniversary ring that was dropped down the toilet has got me thinking. It took four days for city workers to finally find the ring, eventually grabbing the ring (hopefully with gloves on) by getting the family to flush their drains and setting up a debris tap. It’s commendable that they went to such lengths just to get a ring back, but you won’t always be getting things you accidentally flush down the toilet back – and if you do you might want to avoid touching them again!

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Out of the list of objects that are regularly flushed down the toilet jewellery is definitely one of them. The reason for this is that it jewellery tends to be small; so earrings, bracelets and rings can fall off and end up down there without you even realising it. This can be particularly devastating if it happens to you, as not only can such objects be expensive but jewellery like engagement and wedding rings hold a lot of sentimental value that can’t be replaced no matter how much money you throw at it.

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One of the most common objects that are dropped down the toilet is mobile phones. In fact, about 850,000 mobile phones end up floating in toilet water each year in the UK. This is something I’ve unfortunately had experience with myself, and it’s safe to say that the phone stopped working about 30 seconds later. With more and more people using their mobile phones whilst on the toilet this is something that’s unfortunately only going to become even more prevalent. Other electronic products, such as mP3 players and expensive tablets, also regularly end up down there too so make sure you’re careful!

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It’s not all electronics though; things that have been around for ages also get the dunking treatment. Do you love to read books and magazines on the loo? Books tend to fall into that dreaded toilet water too, which is not only annoying due to cleanliness purposes but also because the water can completely ruin it. Even if you leave your book on a radiator to dry out it will never be the same, leaving it with crumpled and stained pages. If you value your book collection as much as I do then try to be careful.

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Children can be a bit of a nuisance when it comes to dropping things down the toilet, although ‘dropping’ could most likely be replaced with ‘placing’ things down the toilet. From car keys to toys, children can end up putting a variety of objects into the toilet of doom. Young kids shouldn’t be unaccompanied when in the bathroom anyway as the toilet is quite a large object for a toddler. Practice child safety in the bathroom and discourage them from throwing things in the toilet, all else you’ll never look at that squishy dinosaur toy in the same way again. Obviously it’s important that you disinfect anything that goes into the toilet, but children’s toys need special attention. If you’re really unsure about letting it into your child’s hands again then throw it away.

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Shockingly pets have also been flushed down the toilet, such as this week-old puppy that was accidentally flushed down the toilet when a four year-old decided the dog ‘needed a wash’. Thankfully the puppy was saved, and is now called Dyno thanks to the name Dyno-Rod of the drainage company that freed him.

So it’s not just the obvious that gets flushed down the toilet, but try your best to keep it that way!

Wedding ring image by Pete Slater on Flickr. Puppy image by DWilliams851 on Flickr. Both are used under a Creative Commons license.

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Watch It Wednesday: Coram Showers Premier Shower Enclosure Installation Guide

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After dealing with bathrooms for over 65 years we’re confident that we have a great deal of knowledge about the functions and installation about a wide range of bathroom products. However, even we would acknowledge that sometimes certain products can be a bit of a pain to install – depending on the size and shape of your room amongst a multitude of other things – which is why we try our best to offer products that look great but won’t take ages to finish being put it and become a nice shiny new fixture in your bathroom. That’s why our Coram Showers Premier range is so brilliant, and as the video above shows its ease of installation means you can have your Coram shower enclosure set-up in less than an hour.

Aside from the ease of installation, which I’ll get back to in a moment, a plus point for Coram Shower Premier Shower Enclosurebuying Coram Showers is that they’re designed and made in Britain; so if you’re interested in supporting British manufacturers when buying products you couldn’t really get any better than a Coram shower. The company has worked with installers around the country to create their Premier range, drawing on installer advice and their own expertise to make sure that their shower enclosures are simple enough for almost anyone to install. In most cases this means using a modular design to slot things in neatly; complete with corner posts allowing for easy adjustments, push fit cover strips to conceal unsightly fixtures and a lighter load to make it easier to lift and fit.

The glass in the curved, bi-fold and tri-fold models also incorporates IGA (Intelligent Glass Application), a technology that reduces weight and gives you a thinner glass of less than 4mm. The brilliance in this is that it still retains the strength and rigidity of the thicker standard 8mm glass.

Give the video a quick watch to get an idea of how to install a Coram Premier shower enclosure on to a shower tray, you’ll probably be surprised at how simple it looks. Also, thanks to @coramshowers on Twitter for letting us know their new video was out for our customers benefit.

You can find all our Coram Shower ranges, including the Coram Premier range, by clicking on this handy link.

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Product Pick: Tune Your Emotions to the Crosswater Shoot Mini Monobloc Basin Mixer

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It is said that taps convey emotion, that the pouring of the water from the tap signifies the
pouring of tears from someone who may or may not be overwhelmed by the beauty of the tap that lies before them. It’s not just a tap; it’s something that sums up all of the life in the universe and the emotion that surrounds us, at least that’s what some designers may talk about anyway! For the majority of us we simply see a tap, yet a tap that may be gorgeous to our judging eyes and becomes something that we all dream we could have in our bathroom. We may not think along the lines of designers and their talk of an ‘emotional interpretation’ but we all appreciate good design and we all have our own unique tastes. The Crosswater Shoot Mini Monobloc Basin Mixer is one such good design, although hopefully it’s not about to make you cry – at least in a sad way!

Crosswater have got a reputation for putting out beautifully crafted taps and the brilliantly shiny chrome Crosswater Shoot is no exception to what’s fast becoming a rule to the Kent based company. Most of their bathroom tap ranges are sleek and blessed with a design that not only fits the modern taste but will more than likely set your bathroom up for the future. In other words, we don’t think that today’s sexy sleek bathroom tap designs are in danger of going away any time soon.

Aside from combining straight lines with smooth soft edges the Crosswater Shoot basin mixer also incorporates a fantastic waterfall design to deliver water down a crafted channel and into your basin in a smooth solid stream. So if you’re going to tear up at all the emotion being put out it may as well be now. Thankfully you won’t be crying when it comes to the installation process, as it’s perfectly designed to be easy to install and easy to operate. All you need is a low pressure water system with a minimum 0.2 bar of water pressure to get the most out of it.

At an affordable rate of £156 the Crosswater Shoot is well worth your time and money if you’re looking for two shiny new taps to put into that bathroom of yours – new or old. Don’t worry if the design doesn’t suit your taste though, thankfully Boundary Bathrooms have a myriad of Crosswater bathroom tap ranges available for your eyes and emotions to discover today.

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Monday Moment #8: The Use of Stripes

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Monday may be your favourite day of the week, or it may be one of those days you recoil from in fear and decide to put any mention of the day actually existing out of your mind for good (it will henceforth be known as the ‘day after Sunday’ instead). Whatever your opinion on Monday’s we know that you all look forward to Monday Moment, that day of the week where we show you a beautiful image of a bathroom, pick it apart and hopefully give you a little inspiration for your own humble adobe. You’ll quickly learn to love Monday’s!

This week we’re playing with stripes, black and white stripes to be exact. It’s hard to call this one a bathroom because it obviously isn’t, as a bathroom requires at least a bath or shower and a basin. This is a simple small toilet, something that may be included as a downstairs toilet for those times when someone has spent an hour preening themselves in the bathroom and you really need to go, or those times you’d rather not have your guests going upstairs so you instead point them to the downstairs bathroom (no snooping around then!). The odd thing is that there’s no basin in this small toilet, at least from what I can make out anyway. Granted, there’s probably not enough space to include one without you being crushed up against the wall every time you walk in, but I’ve always found it weird to not include a basin as you then have to traipse halfway around the house to wash your hands – putting germs all over everything you touch in the process.

The designers of this small toilet have used monochrome stripes for the simple reason that stripes make things look bigger and can work wonders on small rooms like this one. However, they’ve opted to put in vertical stripes rather than horizontal stripes; the former makes the room look taller while the latter makes it look wider than it actually is. Still, you can’t really fault the brilliance of the finish.

Other great touches to this bathroom are the overhanging lamp and the small shelf above the toilet – handily providing a little space for decorations. Elsewhere the pictures on the wall provide a further personal touch, while the mirror plays its part more as a decoration than of functional use (because don’t we all use a mirror in the bathroom as we wash our hands? Obviously this is a component that is clearly missing in this image). It all adds an air of old fashioned design clashing with a modern interpretation, a mix that I welcome with open arms.

As usual, let us know what you think in the comments section below. We’ll see you same time next week for another Monday Moment!

Source: Apartment Therapy (Via Pinterest)

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Freaky Friday: Man Makes Human Soap Out Of His Own Body Fat

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Would you spend $1,000 (just under £650) on a bar of soap? I’m guessing that’s a no, but what would make you even more unlikely to spend that on some soap? If you answered “if it were made out of human body fat” then, oddly, you’d be correct. Although to be fair on the Miami-based performance artist Orestes De La Paz he’s only got 20 bars of the soap up for sale, so I suppose it’s a bit of collector’s item already.

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The idea came about when he decided to undergo a liposuction procedure in December last year. Instead of just letting the fat go rancid, a waste in his mind, he decided to turn it into soap instead. So, after he left the operating theatre he set to work combining coconut oil, organic vegetable shortening, lavender, tree tea oils and a ‘tasty’ looking 25% human fat. Why? Someone had to ask that question.

“Clients are willing to try anything to feel and look beautiful, even to the extent of buying products with human elements in them (stem cells, placenta, semen; you name it, it’s out there.)”

But that doesn’t mean you should do it just because you can Orestes! He thinks that people aren’t that put off by it though, as he observed when he put the soap on display at Miami’s Frost Museum and watched people take on the brave activity of washing their hands with it. Apparently they “simply enjoyed the soap for its lavender, tree tea scent and the way it left the hands soft after washing”.

He also issued a challenge:

 

Sadly, it looks like Lady GaGa has yet to take up the challenge.

If you have a strong stomach you can watch a video of the fat being extracted from his body, boiling the fat into soap and then using it to wash his body. Be warned though, it’s a bit graphic and won’t exactly have you rushing out to buy a bar for yourself.

Maybe one day you’ll be keeping a bar of human soap on one of our soap dishes, although we’re not holding our breath!

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Get Pinning as the Pinterest Pin It Forward UK Campaign Begins!

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Today marks the start of Pinterest, that website full of lovely images, Pin It Forward UK Pin It Forward UKcampaign. The new campaign is getting 300 bloggers from around the UK together for the next 30 days and encouraging them to share their boards and “stories about what inspires them and how Pinterest is a part of their personal passions”. These blogs can be anything from interior design and cooking blogs to travel and fashion blogs. You can follow all the action by making sure you keep an eye on the #PinItForwardUK hashtag over on Twitter. Will Taylor, of design blog Bright.Bazzar, has also kicked things off with his “What Pinterest means to me” post.

We’ve been on Pinterest for quite a while now and we love it! It makes it effortless to pin up photos to various custom-made picture boards, for people to ‘re-pin’ these to their own boards and for more people to click through to the content that our image is representing – and many do, as the traffic brought in from Pinterest has continued to rise since we first launched over there. The eye-catching design and emphasis on high quality images – something we have an abundance of in the bathroom industry – certainly helps, and due to this we now have over 1,200 pins for you to take a look at there.

It’s not just bathrooms either, although our ‘Dream Bathrooms’ board is one of our most popular boards, it’s great for the company to share the other things we love in life; such as pictures from our local area, the places we’d love to travel to and the tasty food we want to try. It’s all about helping you bring out your creative nature and inspire you into coming up with your own unique creations; whether that be designing a new bathroom or simply trying something new with your favourite food.

If you’re ever stuck for inspiration then taking a quick trip over to Pinterest will be the perfect cure to kick-start your creative juices again. It also ensures we never run out of wonderful bathroom design pictures to show you, plus you definitely won’t end up with a boring and bland bathroom after you let Pinterest in to inspire you.

We’ll be pinning even more over the next 30 days, so be sure to check us out!

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Watch it Wednesday: How to Install Bathroom Tile

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“Hi there, I’m Geoff Wilson!”

Hi there Geoff, what are you going to share from your encyclopaedic knowledge of DIY today?

“Why I’m going to tell you how to install bathroom tile of course! But first shall we take a trip to a factory and show you how the tiles we’re going to use are made?”

If you insist Geoff.

“ I’m not just talking about walls either, as an added bonus I also cover installing bathroom floor tiles!”

That’s good Geoff, it saves me finding an equally entertaining video for next week anyway.

To be fair the rest of the video is an in-depth 7 or so minute’s guide to installing your bathroom tiles correctly. Plus, he also encourages you to go down the ornamental route with part of your freshly half tiled walls.

I’m not sure about the colour, but it’s clear that Geoff really know his stuff when it comes to installing bathroom tiles. Unfortunately Geoff is in the USA so can’t come and install your tiles for you, but if you follow his instructions you should have a pretty good idea on how to put them on correctly and not end up with a bathroom floor full of smashed tiles in a few days.

Speaking of bathroom tiles we do have some Vitra tiles on our website, but you’re best off popping into our Colne or Warrington showrooms to talk to one of our resident bathroom tile experts. Unfortunately it’s not Geoff Wilson, he was far too expensive for us!

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Bathroom Cakes That Look Too Good To Eat

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Back when we had our 65th Birthday party Heritage Bathrooms created the lovely bathroom cake above to help celebrate with us. I love the immense amount of detail that has been put into the bubbles bursting out of what looks like an extremely relaxing bath. It was almost a shame to demolish this cake and scoff it down, but thankfully it tasted just as good as it looked so it was an opportunity that was too good to pass up!

It got me thinking about other cakes styled on a bathroom theme, and it turns out that there are actually quite a few out there floating around on the Internet. In fact, there are literally thousands of unique cake designs that look extremely impressive, and it becomes a shame that these works of art are ultimately going to end up sitting in people’s stomachs.

Firstly I found this brilliant design by Abi over at the Angel Eden Blog. It’s similar to the cake we had, although with a change of sex and an added foot shaped bath mat. Abi also takes the time to show you how to make your own, although I have a feeling that if I attempted it then it would look less like a bath and more like a mess that someone has ungratefully dumped on your table.

Our next pick is another brilliant take on a bath filled with bubbles, except this time Fondantfetish has gone to the intricate effort of creating bath accessories that litter the icing constructed tiled bathroom floor around it. You can make out shampoo bottles, a radio, a bath towel, shoes and even the good old rubber duck. To top it off you’ve got the candles of a birthday cake also playing the part of creating a romantic bathroom atmosphere. Spectacular!

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Geny J on Flickr has gone even further and has created an entire bathroom, so not only have you got a bath and two people having a little sit down on the bathroom floor but you’ve also got a toilet, basin, bathroom mirror and even a plunger. As with the last one a lot of attention has gone into creating the accessories to, down to the toilet roll and a tube of toothpaste.

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Finally, if you don’t want to chomp down on a real cake then why not get a cake that is actually useful in the bathroom? Creative Soaps has a range of bath bomb fairy cupcakes that look like they’re ready for eating, although we wouldn’t recommend biting down on any of these. They come in different ‘flavours’ from blackcurrant and strawberry to lime and coconut. You can snap them up at £2.50 per cake.

If this post has accomplished anything then it is has to be increasing my craving for cake.

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Fun Friday: The World’s Largest Toilet

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When you hear the words ‘world’s largest toilet’ you’re probably going to think of a hilariously oversized toilet pan that would probably go disastrously wrong if you tried to use it for its intended purpose. Given that the ‘world’s largest toilet’ is in Japan you’d be forgiven for thinking that the toilet would be a loo fit for a giant, after all we’ve seen Japan do some pretty unique things in the world of toilets. No, instead this is a regular sized toilet, so what makes it the ‘world’s largest’? It’s the area surrounding it that gets that accolade, turning your toilet going experience into one to remember – for all the right reasons!

Ichihara City in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture proudly launched its new public toilet back in May last year, spending an incredible 10 million yen on it (over £65,000!). It’s claiming that it’s the world’s largest, and they may well be right as it’s 200 square metres in size. That’s not the toilet itself though, that’s a simple loo that sits in a glass box. This sits in a centre of a fenced off open air area filled with rows of flower boxes. For a few minutes you are at one with nature, assuming your body will let you. You may get the feeling that it isn’t a private area, but the high fence means that nobody can take a peak and you taking a leak. If that doesn’t comfort you though there is a curtain that can be pulled around the inside of the glass box, although using that will be defeating the object of the whole experiment.

Unfortunately the toilet is currently only open to women, apparently done to slash demand for using the toilet in half, although the toilet’s designer Sou Fujimoto would like that to change in the future. He spoke to the Japan Times about why he designed the toilet;

“I thought it would be quite interesting. Public lavatories are something both private and public, so designing them can be a very motivating challenge for architects,” explained Fujimoto in an email interview. “I was also enthusiastic about the fact that Itabu Station is surrounded by such wonderful wildlife. I thought it was a great opportunity to rethink the relationship between architecture and nature.”

He also says in the future the garden will do away with potted plants and become a “wild grassland area with trees lining the fence”. So you’ll by eventually becoming one with nature by being one with nature… erm, or something like that.

Would you use this toilet? Or should Ichihara City stick to the boring and bland regular public toilet?

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Hand dryers or Paper Towels; Which is the Best?

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Here’s the situation; you’re in a public bathroom and you’ve just finished washing your dezeen_Dyson-Airblade-tap_3hands, you’re also in a rush and you don’t want to spend even more time drying your hands, so what do you do? Do you go for the hand dryer on the wall? Do you grab a paper towel from the dispenser instead? Or do you ignore both and leave the bathroom waving your hands in the air like you’re imitating a hummingbird? That’s if there’s even the option for both, many times there’s either one or the other and you don’t get a choice of preference, but if you did then what would you prefer?

Back in 2009 Harris Interactive conducted a study into what types of hand drying equipment people preferred in public bathrooms. Even with all the technology that’s gone in to today’s sophisticated hand dryers it seems that most people still prefer the old way.

Paper towels 55%
High velocity jet air dryer 25%
Hot air dryer 16%
Cloth towel 1%
Not sure 2%

Even with the faster technology in the second result, such as the Dyson Hand Dryer, people still prefer using paper towels and it all comes down to speed. 59% of the respondents said that paper towels were the fastest method of drying your hands, with high velocity jet air dryers far behind on only 25%. Paper towels are also the most hygienic way to dry your hands, despite people believing that a hand dryer was a more sanitary way.

According to this article a hand dryer spreads bacteria ‘between 3 and 6 feet from the device’ rather than actually getting rid of it. A paper towel is used once and then chucked into the bin, which apparently makes it more hygienic. It has to be noted that Dyson and a US paper towel manufacturer have previously rowed over this topic, with Dyson saying that the research that stated jet air dryers, such as the Dyson Airblade, increase bacteria on hands was “biased and misleading”. Dyson also says its Airblade uses 80% less energy than regular warm air dryers, and instead ‘scrapes’ water from the palms in 10 seconds using powerful sheets of air.

Dyson is right about one thing, it claims its Airblade has a carbon footprint that is at least 70% less than paper towels. Research shows that paper towels and warm air hand dryers have the biggest impact on the environment, with 70% more carbon emissions than the cold-air Airblade. Maybe the best option is to wave your hands in the air like you just don’t… wait, I mean wave your hands in the air to dry them.

At the end of the day not all bathrooms are going to have an Airblade, so it really comes down to personal choice. Personally I would stick to using paper towels, as they’re quicker. It is suggested that you use a paper towel to dry your hands and open the bathroom door with it so you don’t end up getting germs from people who didn’t bother washing their hands. Ideally doors should open outwards so they can be pushed without using your hands, or do away with bathroom doors altogether.

If Star Trek has the Dyson Airblade in the future then Dyson must be right, apparently!

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Watch It Wednesday: How To Make Lye Soap

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It’s Wednesday, which means its hump day and we’re halfway through the week. From now on we’ll bring you a new bathroom related video every Wednesday, whether that be teaching you a new skill you can start work on after work or on the weekend, or simply sharing something we think is pretty cool.

Today’s video teaches you something that is a lost art in today’s modern world; how to make soap. In particular this is how to make lye soap, and the lady in the video does a great job of taking you through each step with was much detail as possible. It certainly is a lot of work, and most people will just keep on buying their soap in the super market, but the personal gratification and reward you feel when the soap finally sets is well worth it!

A word of warning though, as I don’t think the lady mentions it in the video. Lye is a corrosive element in its natural form so you should wear a good pair of rubber gloves before handling it. When the soap is finally made you’ll find it’s excellent for personal hygiene though and it’s said to be particularly beneficial for people with skin conditions like acne and eczema.

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Product Pick: Kohler Panache Back to Wall Toilet

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“Hey there toilet, whatcha got cookin’?”

“Erm, hey… I’m not cooking anything, I’m a toilet. In fact it wouldn’t make much sense if I was equipped with some form of cooking apparatus as I’m the place where people come to do their business and not to cook a full English breakfast. I can imagine a few scars caused by my cooking ability malfunctioning, plus I’m guessing that most people wouldn’t want to eat food that had literally come from a toilet. I’m pretty hygienic, but not THAT hygienic”

“Um, toilet?”

“Yes? Weird disembodied voice?”

“To be fair I could probably say this is weird too, given that toilets don’t generally speak…”

“ I’m a special toilet, even if I’m not equipped with all those fancy features that the Kohler Numi has. That guy thinks he’s top dog because he can play music, but I can hum the national anthem if anybody would care to ask me!”

“Yeah… anyway, it was simply an expression. I didn’t literally mean you were cooking something, have you never heard the Johnny Cash song?”

“Oh. Who is this Johnny Cash you speak of? He’s not a new shower is he? I’ve had it up to here with showers; we never seem to get along”

“You know what, forget it. What’s up?”

“Oh nothing, I’m in a good mood actually!”

“Why’s that?”

“Well, this esteemed bathrooms blog that is considered one of the best bathroom blogs on the Internet – at least that’s what they told me to say – has picked me as today’s Product Pick! It’s like the Oscar’s of the bathroom world apparently!”

“Right, isn’t it just a way to highlight a product they want to sell rather than an award?”

“No, shush! You have to give me this, I’ve been sitting here for ages now and I need a bit of recognition!”

“Ok, you’re an excellent toilet and you know it”

“Why thank you, that’s really made my day!”

Talking to toilets eh? It’s always a bit of a struggle. He’s right to be pleased with his so-called ‘award’ though. His name is the Kohler Panache Back to Wall Toilet, and he’s a glorious white dexterous construction that fits right in against the wall in your bathroom. Thanks to the space saving design you’ll have more room to play with, although try to keep the shower away from him as apparently he’s not all that fond. You’ve also got the added bonus of a standard or soft close toilet seat, and he’ll really thank you if you opt for the soft close option instead.

Any last words, Mr. Toilet?

“I’d like to thank my friends, family, my producer, my…”

Oh look at that we’ve run out of time! Oh well! You can view the toilet through this link but try not to massage his ego too much.

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