What are your pet hates for bathrooms (i.e. in general)? Mine are:
1, Coloured suites (anything other than white, ESPECIALLY chocolate wc's)
2, Gold plated taps and fittings
3, clutter - trinkets all over the place, lots of pictures etc (personally I think bathrooms should be clean and free from clutter as the room is fucntional)
4, lots of bottles of shampoo, conditioner etc accumulated over several years, many of which nobody every uses
5, grime, especially round the back of the WC and down the sides of the basin
6, grotty grout nobody can be bothered to scrub and bleach, and grotty silicone, you know when it is mouldy and / or is really badly done
7, carpets of any form in a bathroom or toilet area (especially in houses with young children - yuk!)
8, loud colours (just what you don't need to face after a night on the tiles)
9, those cheesy designs of tiles, you know the ones with the dolphins, mermaids, swirls etc which already look dated when they come out.
10, Bad tiling job, where the tiler looks to have been still drunk from the night before, can't be bothered to mark out and plan the job before starting, doesn't know where he last put the spirit level ( and can't be bothered to go looking for it, assuming he actually knows how to use it in the first place), probably also tiles the back of the shower onto plasterboard as he's too lazy to use cement board. Can't be bothered to clean all the cement and grout off the tiles and finish off the grout lines.
11, all-in-one tile and grout as people are too lazy to do it properly
12, those nasty stick on strips which go round bath edges when people can't be bothered to redo the silicone properly
13, shower cubicles so flimsy that they wobble in the draught when someone opens the door
14, shower heads so grotty that only 1/2 of the jets work because nobody can remember where they put the tool to open the shower rose to clean it / can't be bothered anyway.
1, Coloured suites (anything other than white, ESPECIALLY chocolate wc's)
2, Gold plated taps and fittings
3, clutter - trinkets all over the place, lots of pictures etc (personally I think bathrooms should be clean and free from clutter as the room is fucntional)
4, lots of bottles of shampoo, conditioner etc accumulated over several years, many of which nobody every uses
5, grime, especially round the back of the WC and down the sides of the basin
6, grotty grout nobody can be bothered to scrub and bleach, and grotty silicone, you know when it is mouldy and / or is really badly done
7, carpets of any form in a bathroom or toilet area (especially in houses with young children - yuk!)
8, loud colours (just what you don't need to face after a night on the tiles)
9, those cheesy designs of tiles, you know the ones with the dolphins, mermaids, swirls etc which already look dated when they come out.
10, Bad tiling job, where the tiler looks to have been still drunk from the night before, can't be bothered to mark out and plan the job before starting, doesn't know where he last put the spirit level ( and can't be bothered to go looking for it, assuming he actually knows how to use it in the first place), probably also tiles the back of the shower onto plasterboard as he's too lazy to use cement board. Can't be bothered to clean all the cement and grout off the tiles and finish off the grout lines.
11, all-in-one tile and grout as people are too lazy to do it properly
12, those nasty stick on strips which go round bath edges when people can't be bothered to redo the silicone properly
13, shower cubicles so flimsy that they wobble in the draught when someone opens the door
14, shower heads so grotty that only 1/2 of the jets work because nobody can remember where they put the tool to open the shower rose to clean it / can't be bothered anyway.
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