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tell me it's not normal to have only bath towels in main bathroom?

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stuckindamiddle · 11/03/2014 16:10

At ILs they only have (their own) bath towels out in the main upstairs bathroom. No hand towel to be found! I find the lack of a hand towel weird! Never know where to dry my hands after using loo, esp if we're only visiting for the day and not overnight when I'd have my own bath towel (but that lives in the guest room so I either take it to loo with me or run straight back there after washing hands!) There are no hand
towels at all in the upstairs bathroom airing cupboard either - in desperation I looked!!

They've a tiny loo downstairs which has one of those teeny guest towels in it but at big family gatherings or if you want to do a poo(!) it's not always the most convenient loo due to it opening directly onto hallway and right next to the doors to kitchen and lounge.

I refuse to dry my hands on a towel ILs have used to dry their bodies with. Tell me I'm not alone??!!

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Quinteszilla · 12/03/2014 23:05

PigletJohn, is it possible to have a gabled roof on an end of terrace and change the pitch of the roof so it is gabled on one side and hipped on the other?

PigletJohn · 12/03/2014 23:21

eh?

towelled roofs?

you can change a gable to a hipped roof, or vice versa, but it would be fairly expensive and disruptive if the house has already been built.

hips look better, but gables give roomier lofts.

if you want an abnormal shape, there are companies who specialise in design and build of trussed rafters, or a cut roof could doubtless be designed. There are computer programs to help with the calculations, but you would probably need an architect or draughtsman to prepare the plans.

My house has a combination of trussed and cut roofs, but from the outside you wouldn't know.

Quinteszilla · 12/03/2014 23:27

Our roof is hipped. I want a loft, it needs to "look" hipped from the front, but a small dormer is allowed. I am wondering if it is possible to let the dormer just go around the corner behind the house, and sort of "gable it up" towards the back... Not sure if that even makes sense but I have made a sketch, that I am not sure makes sense either.

blueshoes · 12/03/2014 23:28

Honestly, I could not give a thought about towels being used in my family's or host family's bumcracks. I have not died nor fallen ill this past winter.

It is quite liberating to not have to worry about such things. Otherwise next you know I'd be worrying about public toilet seats and door knobs and loo flushers and the list goes on ...

Mrswellyboot · 12/03/2014 23:30

I am like detective (above)

I don't actually use the towel for drying myself - just covering up.

Quinteszilla · 12/03/2014 23:42

Sorry for highjack, just wanted to grab pigletjohns attention for a minute.

Sadly I dont have a towelled roof.

PigletJohn · 12/03/2014 23:57

I don't believe it would be possible to make a roof like you describe.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 13/03/2014 00:01

As long as there is soap I don't mind what I dry my hands on. Going into a toilet with no soap provided freaks me out and makes me not want to eat my host's cooking.

TheArticFunky · 13/03/2014 08:26

Surely people do what we do and put the bath towel in the laundry basket after use. Therefore you can assume that the bath towels left out are clean.

Greenrememberedhills · 13/03/2014 08:34

Do people really get worked up about this stuff?

WhispersOfWickedness · 13/03/2014 08:43

Are you sure that they are both the towels the ILs use for bath towels?
I'm just asking because we have two bath towels hung up in the bathroom, but one is DH's bath towel and one is the hand towel and it has just occurred to me that visitors could see this as DH's and my bath towels and think we don't have a hand towel. I keep my bath towel in my bedroom though!
We did used to use hand towels, but we only have hooks up high and the DC couldn't reach the hand towels, so we have to use bath towels instead so that they can reach the bottom of the towel to dry their hands

WhispersOfWickedness · 13/03/2014 08:45

Oh, I also know that my ILs get twitchy because we only have one tea towel in the kitchen and use it for all drying purposes, whereas they have a separate hand towel in the kitchen as well as a tea towel. I do wash it every day though (or more if it gets soggy and horrid) and we have a dishwasher, so it is mostly used for drying hands rather than drying other items anyway.

specialsubject · 13/03/2014 11:33

back to the towels - I think it is a hand towel by each sink, separate tea towel, and guests get given a (clean!) large towel for bath/shower plus their own smaller towel. I also clear a space in the airing cupboard (in the bathroom) for those towels so they can be left to dry after use.

they all leave them in the bedroom... :-)

Mintyy · 13/03/2014 11:40

No, The Arctic Funky, be warned but quite a lot of people don't wash their bath towels after every use. That's quite an assumption you make there!

TheArticFunky · 13/03/2014 11:55

See now I am going to have to start looking out for these things when I visit people's houses. This is Mumsnet's fault.

We have bath towels instead of hand towels and I can guarantee you that they are clean.

TheDetective · 13/03/2014 13:36

No. We don't wash the towels after every use.

People are weird over this stuff

We don't own tea towels either.

Everything is left to air dry. And hands can use kitchen towel instead.

TheArticFunky · 13/03/2014 13:38

We use tea towels in place of oven gloves. Dry hands on kitchen towel.

starfishmummy · 13/03/2014 20:00

We rarely have any towels in the bathroom as they tend to "walk". .
There is a big basket of clean facecloths on the shelf so if need be I will dry my hand on one of those.

If we are expecting guests then I will make sure to put my naice handtowels out.

Orangeanddemons · 13/03/2014 20:06

Am I the only person who doesn't dry themselves on a bath towel. I wrap myself in a hooded towelling dressing gown. This and a combination f drip drying work a treat. I never put a towel near my bum.....

nooka · 14/03/2014 01:36

Oh yes, in our main bathroom there are in practice never any towels. There will however be heaps of them on both children's floors... dh and I keep our towels in our bedroom, mainly so they aren't nicked by the children!

ravenAK · 14/03/2014 01:48

I just put clean bath towels out in piles in each bathroom if we have guests. we have a large supply of them due to dh nicking them from hotels when on work trips, so there are always plenty available. Anyone worrying that I've potentially dried my bum on the towel they are about to use for their hands can just grab a clean one...

If we do have guests for the weekend, I'm afraid I then make the kids gather up all the used towels from the bathrooms & use them for their swimming lessons. So on the whole, we're more likely to catch the guests' cooties than vice versa.

Monty27 · 14/03/2014 01:50

Ewwww, if there isn't a specific handtowel (clean) I'll use tissue. There's no way I'm drying my face or hands on a towel when I don't know where it's been.

lessonsintightropes · 14/03/2014 01:59

My MIL who is wonderful mostly gives us 1 towel each when we visit. I have long hair and no means to dry it/put it up when I'm drying the rest of me and it niggles!
Always hand towels available though no interest in drying hands on towel FIL has used to dry his bum and feet

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