ᐅ Designing a Small Guest Bathroom – Is There Still Room for a Urinal?
Created on: 5 Dec 2017 13:16
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NanDeHello everyone,
Since we already received great help designing the main bathroom, we need your assistance once again for the guest bathroom. :-) My husband would like to have a urinal. However, I don’t see any available space for it. If we place the toilet and the urinal along the 1.20 m (4 feet) wall instead of the washbasin, it will probably be quite tight, right? We recently saw a similar layout in a bathroom showroom, which, of course, encouraged my husband to believe the space should be sufficient.
Since we already received great help designing the main bathroom, we need your assistance once again for the guest bathroom. :-) My husband would like to have a urinal. However, I don’t see any available space for it. If we place the toilet and the urinal along the 1.20 m (4 feet) wall instead of the washbasin, it will probably be quite tight, right? We recently saw a similar layout in a bathroom showroom, which, of course, encouraged my husband to believe the space should be sufficient.
In general, the recommendation is to allow about 20cm (8 inches) of clearance from the wall or adjacent sanitary fixtures. If you apply this guideline, it would look like this:
20cm (8 inches) clearance – toilet (~35cm / 14 inches) – 20cm (8 inches) clearance – slim urinal (~30cm / 12 inches) – 20cm (8 inches) clearance to the wall.
This adds up to about 125cm (49 inches), but depending on the specific toilet model, there could be a few centimeters more—same applies to the urinal. So the space would be tight and might appear visually cramped. You could probably move the toilet and urinal a bit closer together since they are rarely used at the same time. However, personally, I would consider that too narrow. But since I don’t need a urinal, in the end, your husband has to decide if he is okay with the potentially cramped look and if having the urinal is really necessary for him.
20cm (8 inches) clearance – toilet (~35cm / 14 inches) – 20cm (8 inches) clearance – slim urinal (~30cm / 12 inches) – 20cm (8 inches) clearance to the wall.
This adds up to about 125cm (49 inches), but depending on the specific toilet model, there could be a few centimeters more—same applies to the urinal. So the space would be tight and might appear visually cramped. You could probably move the toilet and urinal a bit closer together since they are rarely used at the same time. However, personally, I would consider that too narrow. But since I don’t need a urinal, in the end, your husband has to decide if he is okay with the potentially cramped look and if having the urinal is really necessary for him.
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HilfeHilfe5 Dec 2017 14:56That's way too much! Who would clean all that up? Your husband???
He should be a proper guy and just sit down.
I've never seen a urinal at friends' or acquaintances' places.
He should be a proper guy and just sit down.
I've never seen a urinal at friends' or acquaintances' places.
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HilfeHilfe5 Dec 2017 15:35lastdrop schrieb:
Oh, just tiles everywhere, then you can clean it with high dynamic range (HDR) like at the train station.
No, seriously, there is space, but I didn’t want to have it inside.Sorry, where exactly is the space?
Maybe you want to hang a small cabinet there.
Then the man can lean his head on it while he’s peeing.