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Forget navigating and putting things away, I find it quite amazing that in 2023 we are still cleaning our own toilets and immediate surrounds.
by prawn 4y ago
Forget navigating and putting things away, I find it quite amazing that in 2023 we are still cleaning our own toilets and immediate surrounds.
- jaggederest 4y agoThey make and sell self-cleaning toilets at most big-box stores. They're just about 5x the price of a non-self-cleaning toilet, and I'm pretty certain they break down much, much more often, given that they have multiple valves and electronics in them.
- prawn 4y agoInteresting. Never seen one for sale and never seen one installed in any household. Still amazed that in 2023 they're not a common thing. I understand the challenges, but it's not a problem that's going away, that anyone enjoys dealing with, etc.
- preommr 4y agolink? The only "self-cleaning" toilets I see are over-engineered garbage that only help with cycling through toilet tank tablets.
- jaggederest 4y agohttps://www.lowes.com/pl/Self-cleaning--Toilets-Toilets-toilet-seats-Bathroom/4294737213?refinement=4294728589 https://www.lowes.com/pl/Self-cleaning--Toilets-Toilets-toil...
- prawn 4y agoThe product pages are blocked for me, presumably because I'm outside the USA, so I can't see how they work. Are these self-cleaning with scrubbers or with some sort of flushing product? If the latter, does it reliably remove all marks? Self-cleaning to me is something more than just periodically flushing suds or using a spray. The seat still requires cleaning, etc.
- chrisco255 4y agoI have no idea about those toilets, but I highly recommend getting a pressure-assist added to your toilet: https://www.flushmate.com/ https://www.flushmate.com/. I had one in a commercial retail unit I used to rent, and it rarely ever needed deep cleaning.
- prawn 4y agoSmart idea, being able to retrofit existing cisterns. I don't think it'd prevent having to wipe the seat down both sides plus whatever else. Blows my mind that we don't have radially symmetric bowls and S-bend equivalents that can clean automatically, plus the outside. I have no idea how my kids get piss around the outside of the bowl, but somehow they do.
- allisdust 4y agoBut on the bright side, we have cheap smartphones now and can spend time on endless consumption of entertainment. All our bright minds are slaving away at 9-5 jobs thinking hard on how to make people click ads.