How much for a loo !

[Nick]

A friend of mine is a maker and installer of stone panelling to kitchens, bathrooms etc. I won't call him a mason but he does work with stone. He produces some amazing stuff. Talking with him last week. He had recently supplied the stone for a 28 sq.m. bathroom. Floors, walls and ceiling totally clad. He showed me some photos. The bog installed is one of these:

The bath cost ?34k, the two basins ?7k each (exc taps & fittings). Cost of bathroom refurb- slightly S of ?300k. This same room was last refurbed less than two years ago at a cost of ?1/4M.

Damned lunacy in my opinion. Talk about flushing money down the pan!

[Andy Burns]

Looks about as attractive as something you'd find in a caravan.

[ARW]

And I thought my customers were overdoing it by having a 28m2 ensuite!

[Cursitor Doom]

[...]

Good grief, man! You can't call it a "bog" or a "loo" if it costs *that* much money. There ought to be some fancy-sounding French term more fitting for something this expensive.

[Cursitor Doom]

"Auto lid open/closeAuto open/close : Sensor detects user's approach. lid opens and closes automatically"

For that kind of money it should also get your knob out for you.

[Julian Barnes]

On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:52:18 +0000, Nick wrote: [snip]

Something stinks about this toilet. In the blurb it states that they've sold 30 million of these things! That equates to sales of 342 *billion* pounds - and it's not the only product they make! A company with that kind of turnover I'd expect to be a household name, but I've never heard of this outfit. I smell bullshit.

[The Natural Philosopher]

governmente socialiste?

[The Natural Philosopher]

yep. they were selling em at $2 for drinking troughs before someone marked em up a few grand and started selling em as bogs.

[charles]

you mean they've been selling them to cattle ranches?

[ARW]

Chateau.

[Jaffna Dog]

Toto (the toilet manufacturer, not the rock band :-) are 'big in Japan', literally, as well as across Asia, for their 'bog standard' products, but in the West they only sell the luxury ones.

[alan_m]

Saniflow?

[Huge]

"The rich are not like us."

(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

[bert]

Brick shit-house?

[F]

We had those in two of the hotels we stayed in in China last year.

They'll wash your backside when you're finished, and dry it too. A sensation I couldn't quite get used to...