Are toilet roll holders a necessary evil or unbelievably naff?

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Looking at refitting our bathrooms and I say we don't need toilet roll holders as toilet roll can go on the windowsill and DH says you HAVE to have a toilet roll holder.

Can the collective wisdom of mumsnet give us a definitive answer

I don't like them. Unnecessary clutter. Have a spare in the cupboard/close at hand.

We have a toilet butler (I just love that that is what they’re called).

gamerchick!

Loo roll holder, but get an open ended one, so you can just slide the new roll on without all the bother of taking it apart. Mine curves up at the end to stop the loo roll falling off.

I think it's a bit unhygienic not to have a toilet roll holder. As gamerchick says, you need to minimise handling of the loo roll to reduce contamination with body fluids/faecal bacteria. Think of all the people who use your bathroom, in addition to your family! You don't know what germs visitors might inadvertently leave behind.

No one uses my bathroom! Perish the thought!

I have a floor standing one. Didn't want to drill into the tiles!

Have one on each side. Not only is this ambidextrous, it also means you have a spare at hand.

Just to disagree with the ft st few posters I hate them and when we had our bathroom done we deliberately didn't have one fitted. It's another thing to go dusty and rusty.

Another vote for free standing.

First bought them when we rented but came to prefer them for lots of reasons.

Our bathroom is tiny, you can reach into the sink unit from the loo. So toilet roll holder is stuck to the inside of the sink unit. Neatly tidied away! and stops DS from eating it

I'm with the "no unnecessary clutter" gang.
Our toilet roll has stood on the corner of the bath for XXX years. I do have a freestanding holder for extra rolls tho.

I'd say you have to have one. We have one on the wall, and a tall one to stack the extra rolls on

I have one bathroom with toilet holder and another toilet without said holder. It's been this way for 2 years since I moved in. The conclusions of my findings are I don't give a fuck either way. So I won't be going to the time and expense to fit one in the one without.

Toilet roll sitting on window ledge is naff

I've never thought about it before but all our toilet roll holders are on the left of the loo. That's where the walls are in our house. We're all right handed and it's never been a problem!

EmmaGrundyForPM Surely if you are right handed, your loo roll holder should be on the left, as it's easier to lean round?
(I'm left handed, and our loo roll perches on the radiator.)

1960s, Miaow.
I knew someone who knitted/crocheted lots of those dollies, and very popular they were too.

I agree QuiteUnfitBit. It was the OP who said her husband wanted it on the left because he was lefthanded.

Miaow
crochet doll lady was not a serious suggestion!

Now... which way round for the actual toilet roll - feeding over the top of the roll, or underneath?

Just had 2 of our batherroms done and I haven’t got wall loo roll holders in either.
In one is a freestanding thingy and it the other there is a gap down the side of the loo with a shelf where pipes have been boxed in and ther is a stack of loo rolls on there
No way was I drilling holes in my lovely new wall panels

SevenTillFour - get a free-standing one, place it directly in front of the loo, and watch people's brains explode as they try to work out which way round is now 'over' or 'under'.

I've now got adverts for bathrooms on this thread.