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Post by rumplesnat on Aug 10, 2014 14:06:55 GMT
The lid covers are almost as horrifying.
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Post by penny on Aug 10, 2014 14:12:18 GMT
I can see using one if you have carpeting in the restroom. This... If I'm your guest and you have wall to wall carpeting I want, nay demand, you also have a RATT! At least with a RATT there's a chance it's been washed before I came over...lol j/k;) I'm lucky because my bathroom floor is heated... Soooo nice... But I don't want to imagine how that would help along the Petri dish effect... So no... A mat in front of the tub (if I can ever find one that fits under the door - ugh...lol)
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Post by joelise on Aug 10, 2014 14:17:41 GMT
I think they look very old fashioned in a bathroom, but I do have a rectangular mat for stepping out the shower as the tiles are very slippery when wet. It almost touches the loo but I wash it at least twice a week, I don't see it as gross. In my very small, very cold downstairs loo I do have a RATT, it almost covers the whole floor as it's so small in there. It's black with glittery threads and very groovy! I love it! As far as I know no one pees on it and since I always replace the lid when I've used the loo there are no splashes!!
ETA. I do think carpet is wrong for a bathroom though!
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Post by jamh on Aug 10, 2014 14:18:55 GMT
Definitely anti-RATT here, and those toilet lid covers are ick, too.
JamH
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Post by lorieann13 on Aug 10, 2014 14:24:52 GMT
I honestly don't see thebig deal. We have one around the downstairs toilet. I guess maybe I am lucky that my dh and ds actually pee into the toilet (and gasp, flush AND close the lid?! LOL). It is never wet, never smelly, and gets washed when the floor gets cleaned. How is it any different than the floor? I wash the floor, I wash the rug. They can both have the airborn particles. That's why you wash things. Eh, whatever. Keeping my rug
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Post by lovetodigi on Aug 10, 2014 14:31:25 GMT
Here is how I see it. If there it is just bare floor there, no rug, pee still gets in the floor, even splashes as it hits, possibly even getting on walls. If it is just bare, hard floor, the pee will then be tracked all though the house. If someone goes in right after pee has gotten on the floor, then it is on the bottom of their shoes or feet and tracked and tracked some more. Having a rug helps to keep it from being tracked through the house. I would much rather contain it in one small area and not have it tracked all through my house. You know that a man is not going to mop the floor every time that they go pee. There are far to many places that sell the rug that goes around the toilet for me to think that they are not selling and being used. I agree with the carpet in the bathroom. That is disgusting and would be impossible to keep clean. Rugs can be thrown in the washer daily is necessary.
ETA: Toilet seat covers=No way, No how.
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Post by calgal08 on Aug 10, 2014 14:33:16 GMT
Gross, icky, yuck
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Post by myshelly on Aug 10, 2014 14:37:37 GMT
It's gross and it looks stupid.
So, so dated. Yuck.
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Post by msliz on Aug 10, 2014 14:39:35 GMT
We sort of have them in my kids' bathroom.
They're lazy children, just like their mother, so they leave their old bath towels on the floor after they've taken new ones (after a handful of days.) They decided that they like them there because the tiles are cold in the wintertime. One always ends up between the tub and the toilet, and the other between the toilet and the sink.
I'll grab them for laundry before they get too disgusting.
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Post by J u l e e on Aug 10, 2014 14:44:33 GMT
Anti RATT.
And I don't think I'd even be able to go if I was sitting on that purple thing covering the toilet seat. I would feel like I was still wearing my pants or something.
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Post by MZF on Aug 10, 2014 15:06:23 GMT
Haven't used one in probably 20 yrs. Kind of gross to me..
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Post by melanell on Aug 10, 2014 15:21:31 GMT
We don't use them, not do we have carpeting in the bathroom. (Which is a concept that has always baffled me a bit.)
However, one of our toilets sweats a lot in the summer no matter what we try to do with it (short of replacing it, maybe?) so in the hot months, I stick one of those around the back of it to collect the water drips. But I have to switch them out every other day because otherwise it would get disgusting in no time.
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Post by Sassy Sabrina SWZ on Aug 10, 2014 15:22:20 GMT
When I was a young bride, I used a small washable rug in the tub-sink area (not in front of the toilet). But by the time I had kids, I realized that it had to go, and for many years, we've had no rug in the bathroom.
I currently have two adult males (DH and a relative) in the household, and I'm disgusted every time I enter the room and see new spots on the floor. I dry them up and mop the floor frequently, but it's impossible to keep up--I'd have to mop every hour. If these guys were children, I could hope to educate them. But with grown men, it's too embarrassing to say anything (and it would probably be ineffective anyway). Has anyone found a solution to this?
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 10, 2014 15:27:01 GMT
Horrible. Twee and elderly, and stink of urine.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Aug 10, 2014 15:30:27 GMT
Emphatically no.
I'm ok with bath rugs though--assuming they aren't in front of a toilet.
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 10, 2014 15:39:43 GMT
Admittedly my mother is a bubble left of plumb but she used to put the fluffy toilet lid cover on the inside of the lid because the lid was always left up and she wanted it to show. When I was a kid I had a boy cousin that used to try to write his name in the fluff when he peed at our house.
I've never used toilet covers or those rugs. I think they are just NASTY. I like clean surfaces in my bathroom. I would also never have wall to wall carpeting in my house again either. Hardwood is so clean.
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Post by gar on Aug 10, 2014 15:42:12 GMT
Is this a US thing? I need some overseas Refupeas to weigh in on the global RATT situation. Nope, unfortunately they're available here too
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Post by VicsterPEI on Aug 10, 2014 15:49:48 GMT
One word - EWWWW!!!
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Post by keknj on Aug 10, 2014 15:54:57 GMT
I don't have the RATT, but I do have a small rug in front of the toilet. I do wash it frequently. The tile is cold in there and I like to rest my feet on it. I also have one of the towel bath mats in front of the tub, but it's not near the toilet. The tile in there is very slick and if you get out of the tub with wet feet you are likely to fall. In fact, both of my kids have fallen and slid across the floor.
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Post by transprntbutterfly on Aug 10, 2014 16:08:26 GMT
So very gross!
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Post by cecelia on Aug 10, 2014 16:16:55 GMT
The toilet rug doesn't bother me nearly as much as the idea that so many DHs and DSs don't know how to aim properly. I'm going to consider myself blessed now that I'm aware that I'm a member of the small percentage of households with men and boys with a steady stream.
Who knew something I took for granted forever would now cause me so much bliss?
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Post by pastlifepea on Aug 10, 2014 17:00:24 GMT
My germaphobe first instinct is no, but I guess if it is laundered very frequently, it might be okay. However this thread gave me an anxiety inducing flashback of one of the houses my MIL has lived in. There was only one bathroom but it was pretty large. It was carpeted in some thick patterned brown carpet that had probably been there since the 1970's. There was no light in the bathroom butnot to worry, there was a floor lamp in there. It was also where the kitty litter box stayed and apparently it was not cleaned often and/or cat had poor aim or bad attitude. No exhaust fan either so when someone showered this big cloud of nasty humid stink built up. We now stay at a hotel if we are visiting up there.
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Post by marianne on Aug 10, 2014 17:18:10 GMT
I don't have them now, but I used to. I even had carpeting back in the day! I changed because I got tired of the look, not because of the ick factor.
What I can't get over is all these male-types who piss on the floor!! Now, THAT's disgusting and gross! I've lived with two husbands and a son, and except when he was still learning, neither my son nor husbands peed on the floor. Gross!
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Post by cmpeter on Aug 10, 2014 17:39:37 GMT
Anti!
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Post by Sam on Aug 10, 2014 17:46:30 GMT
Nope, unfortunately they're available here too It's a shame to have to admit it, isn't it?! I don't know who Anniebygaslight knows though, or the state of the bathrooms she visits because I've never been anywhere where they actually stink of urine?
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Post by Sassenach on Aug 10, 2014 18:03:14 GMT
Nooooo! It's disgusting!
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 10, 2014 18:07:13 GMT
We had them in all our bathrooms when I was growing up. But I haven't used one in many years.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Aug 10, 2014 18:12:54 GMT
YEP! totally have one! I don't think they are dated at all!LOL Seriously you guys that are saying they are germ filled,etc. WHERE exactly do you think the "stuff" goes on a tile floor in the bathroom? if not kept to a rug? Do you think it just magically floats away? because there is no rug there? LOL?! I wash the rug every wk. It never smells of pee?! It's dang cold in MN, and we have a tile bathroom floor, it's nice!!
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 10, 2014 18:13:23 GMT
What I can't get over is all these male-types who piss on the floor!! Now, THAT's disgusting and gross! I've lived with two husbands and a son, and except when he was still learning, neither my son nor husbands peed on the floor. Gross!
I keep wondering the same thing about so many if these males! Both dh and my stepdad are retired Navy so they sit. But my son stands and I do not remember him peeing, dripping or whatever on the floor.
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Post by craftykitten on Aug 10, 2014 18:20:23 GMT
International RATT update....we have them here. Mostly in old people's houses. My grandparents had one but they had the most immaculately clean house I've ever seen so no worries there.
As for all the germs floating around when you flush the toilet...you know there are germs everywhere, all the time, right? And that the dirtiest things you're likely to touch are things like telephones and cash - which have also been found to have faecal bacteria on? At some point I just have to let it go, otherwise I'd be obsessively cleaning all the time.
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