How much for a loo !

Question

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:

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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 · Accepted Answer

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

ARW · Answer

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

Cursitor Doom · Answer

[...] 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 · Answer

"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 · Answer

[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 · Answer

governmente socialiste?

The Natural Philosopher · Answer

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 · Answer

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

ARW · Answer

Chateau.

Jaffna Dog · Answer

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 · Answer

Saniflow?

How much for a loo !

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