Was it a peeote?
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10 years ago we were going to build a house. I wanted a urinal in the master bath. They save a ton of water and are quite planet-friendly. And it beats “if it’s yellow, let it mellow…”
You want to investigate thermostatic mixing valves. They take hot and cold lines in, and output fixed temperature water.
I use one to run my water heater at 140, but only allow 117 degree water into the pipes (increases the available hot water with a smaller tank.) And some people plumb them into toilets making the water room temperature so the tank doesn’t sweat. Clever devices.
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Yes! Bidet’s for the win!
On topic: I had the equivalent of a urinal for ~2 years. During a very long bathroom reno, once the old green toilet was removed, I felt little need to put in a new toilet. I could aim and hit the drain hole on the floor. Sadly, my wife eventually threatened bodily harm, so reno was completed.
I do plan on putting in a urinal in the back of the garage. Figure I can just bury a pipe in the ground outside, 1m deep with good drainage. And I’ll use a tin funnel for the entry end. Will save a number of trips to the house.
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My grandparents called it the “Guzunder”, because it guzunder the bed.
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This is a very good reason to install a urinal. Though if you have a properly shaped toilet and the right kind of flushing tank you can use a very small amount of water for pee in a normal toilet as well.
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What an extremely stupid thing to waste energy on.
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Bidets? Those are them urinals with a built in drinking fountain, right?
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Don’t tell Burschenschaftlers in “traditional university cities” like Göttingen they are in southern Germany. They might challenge you to a duel. I’m thinking about Hannover, Aachen, Jena, Bonn, Leipzig, Marburg (ok, that may nearly qualify as southern Germany…), even Cologne!
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It’s not entirely a Burschenschaftler thing. Gastronomy businesses use them too. The now defunct mines in the Ruhr Area had them also (not for vomit but for phlegm).
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As every urinal in every bar ever will tell you, there is no design for worst-case-scenario users.
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I’m peeing on a cactus right now.
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I should note that I grabbed that this particular image from a blog
that describes how trough urinals waste a lot of water, and are being replaced with other waste management technologies.
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Toilet, bidet, and now urinal. It’s going to get crowded in there. (And yes, I know that there are bidet attachments for toilets)
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I’m somewhat sceptical of this buzzfeed article. Are you trying to tell me a woman will marry a guy before she notices he doesn’t wipe his ass properly?
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Three cheers for the Purity Movement.
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I have a dual purpose fixture that serves as a urinal and toilet. It’s called a toilet.
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Because it popped up several times on this topic: I have yet to encounter malfunctioning waterless urinals. Traveled through Germany quite a bit, and nearly every Raststätte at every Autobahn has them. All one company who owns them. That’s some serious pecunia non olet shit going on, I can tell you. Just try a GTranslate on this Wikipedia page:
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