Do I really have to pay £50 for bathroom mats?

[Easy]

Switched from carpet to vinyl in the batroom and hate it.

Need bathroom mats. Went to John Lewis (where else?) and liked thick latex backed mats, but a large bathmat and pedestal mat would have cost £50, not available in the sale.

As a stop-gap, I bought ordinary towel ones (£16 total) but they are driving me mad, as I have to straighten them every-time I go in the bathroom, they just don't stay put when anyone goes in.

We only paid £26 for the ruddy vinyl flooring (rollend, good make) but the saving is pointless if I need to pay so much for mats.

Really wish I'd gone for rool-end of carpet, then at least the towel mats wouldn't have slid about.

P.S. have been in Ikea, who do a thick rubber-backed bathmat, but no matching pedestal mat.

PS, need white (so 2 sets) or pale turquiose

ikea do lovely huge pale turquoise ones for a tenner. no piss mats though!

easy - -you don't need a pedeatal mat - or piss-catcher as martianbishop styled them teh other day

Dunelm. Dead thick. heavy, double or treble thickness towelling ones for circa £10 each.

vinyl need pissmat or else a smelly puddle that seeps under the vinyl.

How big do they need to be? Matalan has good sets, cotton, some rubber backed some not, for about tuppence, but they're not vast. (I prefer the un-rubber ones because they wash better - the rubber tends to disintegrate).

Have seen some elsewhere too but can't remember.

M&S do latex backed ones. (Piss proof!!!)

ikea do them for 50p

you can get sets of mats (bath mats and piss mats) in Argos

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not sure how nice they are though - we got ours in Ikea but it was just a big bath mat.

white - no rubber backs - 50p each.

Matalan sets are like this - similar price too.

Oooh, just remembered, prob DIY stores that also have them - Homebase's would be the same as Argos's anyway I expect.

yes but the ikea 50p ones are about the size of a 50p too, and I want something bigger than that.

I've never been to Matalan, are they okay?

And I want something that won't look like screwed-up facecloth every-time ds goes in the loo.

Personally I think pedestal mats look tacky And as for carpet in a bathroom

Was going to suggest Debenhams but can't find any on their website - just bathmats.

I was going to suggest ceramic tile the whole thing, only keep bathmat down when exiting the shower. I would pay 50, just for something nice that would wash well and last.

Why not put some clear sealant round the base of the loo and then not bother with a pedestal mat -much more hygenic anyway just to wipe away stray drops.

Our Matalan ones were c**p and didn't last. How about {whispers} BHS ?

Agree with soupy, don't put carpet back down whatever you do. We still have ours until I have summoned up the energy to do something about the lumpy floorboards.

You could get one of those wooden things to stop you sliding when the floor is wet instead of a bathmat.

(And it's revolting, I meant to add to first para)

The thing is that, as I have balance problems and a very problematic hip, I need the ultimate in non-slippy surfaces.

Can't bear wooden duckboard things, bloody uncomfortable.

And I have to say that I have never had a problem here with nasty carpet round the loo, but then dh (and now ds) always sit to pee.

Janh you and I have had this discussion before (when we embarked on this bathroom project). How do you let your men visit other people's houses, if they can't pee without making a mess?

I would happily have put carpet down again, but all the house imprtovements have been done in the hope that we can sell this horrid, 30 y.o. ticky-tacky brick box on an estate this year, so I can get back to living a real life.

Agree no piss mat, sealed around pedestal and DH is a good aim , DS getting better and taught to mop up after himself, worst is FIL, funny MIL uses piss mats so he probably never notices.

Good q, Easy! AFAIK the culprit is DS2, who is 12, and I hopefully assume all his friends are just as bad so when he goes to their houses nobody notices

You can buy (from eg Betterware and Kleeneze but probably also Wilkos, Woolies etc) non-slip strips for any rug - that would be OK, wouldn't it? Ordinary non-latex-backed mats are normally much thicker and nicer so get them and some of those strips.

(Most of the revoltingness of our bathroom carpet is just ordinary wear though, not wee. Bathroom is my laundry room and a lot of sweaty muddy football stuff gets dumped in there, etc etc.)

BTW, does anyone want to buy a 4 bed detached (properly) house, garden, parking for 2/3 cars, beeeeeautiful new bathroom, on the outskirts of Nottingham?

I want to go back to the country.......

yes, but I am talking about the big ikea ones, they're not cheap (well, for ikea anyway) and more than twice the size of their cheapo jobbies without rubber backing etc., and lovely and thick.