toilet rolls
 

when you hang a new toilet roll on a dispenser
do you have the paper facing towards/next to the wall
or facing away from the wall

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I see you have entirely too much time on your hands again. :D


Incog wanders off........

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Always facing away from the wall.. otherwise you're left scrabbling behind it every time someone rips a sheet off. One of my pet hates

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Facing away from the wall, then the wall doesnt get hand marks on it

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It usually sits on the small table next to the loo.

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in that case

do you have the free paper arranged in a clockwise
or counter-clockwise fashion?

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That, of course, depends on the hemisphere.

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by that rationale

how would you arrange the said toilet roll
if your toilet happened, by some quirk of fate, to be situated on the actual
equator?

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Depending on the way you're facing, or, when parallel to the equator, depending on the hemisphere the table would be on.

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Ah - in the 'hot seat' so to speak?

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if it ever makes it to the dispenser than which ever random way it gets put in, otherwise its normally on the floor next to the loo or on the edge of the sink :rolleyes:

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Or, whether the toilet roll is laying horizontally or vertically.

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hmm - ok


so there you are seated on the equator - facing the same direction as the planet is turning

you have the roll, for sake of argument, in you hands

is it clockwise or counter-clockwise?

(come to think of it if you were in an equatorial country
you'd probably be wiser having about half a dozen rolls)

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I bow to your superior knowledge sir...

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Left or right hand?

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one roll in each

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That would be ridiculous. How would I wipe my bum? :confused:

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There is a right & wrong way to fill the toilet roll holders & the right way is away from the wall.

When someone puts it in so that the paper is closest to the wall several things can go wrong:
1) The wall gets grabbed & wallpaper gets fingernail indents.
2) The paper does not rip off from the holder properly, esp if it has a serated edge closest to the user.
3) Not having full control of the removal procedure, 2 ply+ often gets easily seperated
4) I get irritated.

When its in a holder that uses the serated edge, they are designed to have the roll end closest to that edge so that it creates a sharp angle & hence seperates the sheets when it is pulled off.

Not having it so is especially annoying when the roll is the large commercial ones that most public/factories etc use as the roll end then dissapears somewhere into the holder & because an idiot fitted it to the wall at the same height as a normal holder, you have to stoop very low in order to get your hand up there & retrieve it, thus giving you a bad back.

As you can see, this subject has been discussed with some people before...lol :D :D :D

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Facing away, definitely. It's one of little things I'm a bit obsessed about. Even in someone elses house, if it's facing toward the wall I have to change it. It's almost as annoying for me as the last person using the loo to leave an empty loo roll on the dispenser... :mad: :mad: :mad:

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or, indeed, when they leave a 1 ply sheet as a sort of token
offering to prove they did not use the last sheet
or, god fobid, start dismantling the
cardboard roll itself for use thereof

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Hmm, does this prompt a "what ply rolls do you use" thread?

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could do

anyone remember that 'izal' stuff you used to see around

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Yep, that pi$$es me off even more....

:sick: doesn't even bear thinking about.....

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LOL - What a brill thread :D

I remember being forced to go on a heatlh and safety course after I left school. On the first day they started talking about personal hygiene and then actualy handed out diagrams details the correct procedure for wiping your ass...... I nearly wet myself laughing and walked out allong with half of the group :rofl:

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whatever that is it can't be as bad as "badgers ar$e"

(apologies for the mild swearwords in this attachment . i would have edited it but was struck down by a sudden bout of laziness)

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is that an actual product - or a windup thing - surely?

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Nothing was worse than the loo paper at school - it was more like tracing paper, or possibly greaseproof..... :disturbd:

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a windup ;).. i only need the tiniest excuse to delve into my repository of humourous pictures.. sad but true

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Some friends of mine actually did use it as tracing paper...

Mind you, it had other uses as well. Torn up, and soaked, it stuck to any available walls or ceilings quite nicely..

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yeah

that's the same stuff I was on about

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Surely it would be a 'wipeup' :erm:

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Hope it was not used paper :Yikes:

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When I see toilet rolls in the supermarket made from "recycled " paper it always make me laugh. :D

When I was a kid there were more houses that had the daily paper torn into pieces and hung from a nail in their outside loo. Yuk!

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Very entertaining stuff that Izal, especially when folded over a comb & blown through... :D
It was useless for its intended task, but I wont go any further into that!

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myself
I never understood how there was a market for it

other than it being a sort of 'prop' for the toilet

to make it look like there was paper

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Against the wall as it uses up less space.

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I have meditated on the subject for some time now

and have concluded that away from the wall is the proper order of things

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away from the wall as its easier to place a hand on the top and tear strips off it.....

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As was mentioned in a thread a couple of weeks ago, we have experts in all sorts of things on this forum. For once, I can offer my expertise in this matter. As a cleaning supervisor (And I`m proud of it :) ) who holds nvq`s in cleaning building interiors (I kid you not) the correct way is for the roll to be facing away from the wall. In public loo`s where the large holders are on the cubicle walls, the holder should be on the left with the dangling loo roll nearest to the person sitting on the loo and not the furthest away. Believe it or not, people where I work do complain when the roll is the wrong way round. :)

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ours runs next to the wall

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Surely the last thing you want is to have your customers place a possibly damp hand on the top of the roll and have whatever's on it soak through downwards. Better to pull away from the roll downwards.

I'm off for dinner.

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In a public or work place, the rolls should be in a lockable tolet roll holder, so damp hands shouldnt be touching the rest of the roll. Reason 1; Hygiene 2; to stop theft;
You`d be surprised how many rolls are stolen each week and £23 a dozen for the mini-jumbo`s, it proves expensive.

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I hadn't realised the bog roll black market was so intense.

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Its the infamous Brown Hand Gang - they clean up in this area............

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Only £9.99

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Etiquette dictates the paper hangs away from the wall, not against it.

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Where I work, we get and use 2 pallets a month of toilet rolls. Each pallet contains 54 packets of mini-jumbo`s. 108x12 rolls=1296. Thats a lot of rolls. Cost per month= £2484. When it comes to paper towels, its even more expensive.

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If you look at toilet rolls printed with crosswords, jokes, etc they are all designed to hang away from the wall.

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See overleaf for answer/solution/punchline......

OOPss too late :erm:

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Hmm, that was a bum joke...

Why is it that its hard to stay away from this thread? :D

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Its not a 'roll - over' week?

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OH no, back to this thread again.

I'm afraid that as a customer who holds no NVQ's in cleaning but many years of experience of using these types of facilities I have to disagree with this.

Having just been for a dump & used an industrial sized roll that is sideways on, given that these are usually fitted with thier screws in the same place that a normal roll holder is fitted (IMO the wrong place to fit them).

IMO it is in fact easier to remove the paper from the side nearest the door (furthest away from you), as it involves less turning of the torso & arm manipulation to get to it.:td: (or it is in the bogs where I work).
So if someone has a back problem (as I curently do as will others) this can cause discomfort yet I see no discomfort in the other way.

Of course, its different wherever you go as different holders are fitted in different locations by different people & we all have different requierements of them, ideally they dispense paper as & when required, of the requiered number of sheets without undue damage to the paper. :D

Another question in the same sort of topic, at work do you have 1 door to your bogs or is there a 2nd one just after? :D

Oh this is fun..

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Was their a point to this topic ? I really can't be bothered to read three pages on toilet rolls to find out ....

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Not really, there has not been much point to many of the topics in this forum recently.

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Funny you should ask. We`ve got 4 sets of public loo`s. On 2 sets we`ve got double doors and the other 2 we havent. On the 2 that have double doors the first door is wedged open. Why do you ask?

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Because I am very used to finding a double set of doors in loos, especially in factories etc.
I have a feeling that this was some form of building regulation, perhaps to act as a privacy or smell barrier sort of thing.

However,the new extension at my factory has a single door which means that a passer by can see right into the loos when someone is going in/out.

Apart from a wierd chance for someone to perve I dont think its right, a passer bye can see right into the mens cubicles when the door is not shut & often when someone goes into it for a pee they might not shut the cubicle door.
The same for the womens (but they shut the cubicle doors).

Just making this thread even worse than it is & talking toilets again..lol