DH wants to install a urinal!

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I've just found out from the builder that DH has asked him to install a urinal in the new bathroom!? We're having an extension onto the garage and it's meant to be a games room for the 2 boys but DH has since been making noises about putting a fully functioning bar in there with fruit machines and now a fucking urinal! I'm fucking fuming!!

I've got 3 pissy sons and in my dream self build house I would give them a urinal room. Preferably one that's also a wet room that 360 degree self cleans every hour like those public toilets. Then I'd have a female only nice toilet where I could gurantee sitting on a dry seat in a room that didn't smell like the stairwell of a multi storey car park.

If my dh installed a urinal in a bathroom without discussing it with me I’d take a dump in it.

My initial reaction is also yuck - but I can see a plus side. No more sprinkles of wee around the normal loo!

I would insist on one with a lid though eg this

If there was something that made it easier for women to pee, any man would be seen as abusive on here for not letting her get one.

That makes it sound like it's some sort of terrible hardship for a man to urinate in a normal toilet. Unless this is a very well-kept secret, it isn't.

I’ve seen this a couple of times in the US. We usually go on an open house tour thing that takes place each year in our city. Last year, there was a $3m+ house on the tour. It was nicely done and quite understated, except for the bathrooms (there were several). Every one had a urinal, and were all decorated in an overtly masculine way (black leather wallpaper, anyone). Horrid trashy, and completely cheapened the house.

I wouldn't have a problem with this. If they are kept clean (which would be his job obviously) urinals shouldn't smell worse than a toilet, and drips should be less.

Urinal cakes also keep them smelling fresh.

that didn't smell like the stairwell of a multi storey car park

Ive not been a man so I don't know if they are significantly easier to wee at. but it would have to be significantly easier or It just seems like you end up with 2 things to clean and buy where one would have done.

I see absolutely zero point in domestic urinals. They're simply toilets that you can't defecate in. In public conveniences, offices etc, they serve a purpose because they save space compared to a normal toilet - but that's only valuable if you're catering for multiple men simultaneously, and therefore you're ALSO going to have normal toilets, but can have fewer because of the urinals. In a home, the choice is between toilet, or toilet plus urinal - I've no idea why you'd pick the latter.

I'm either completely inappropriate, "overtired" or have had too much vino, as I'm howling at this.

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Thanks to JellySlice, I now know what urinal I’d choose for my imaginary self build

Can someone explain the attraction with a urinal for a domestic bathroom? Are they not just a toilet which has half the useful applications?