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Does bathroom etiquette exist in your house?

Posted: 12/02/2015

clip_image001Does bathroom etiquette exist in your house?

Believe it or not, we Brits spends an average 16 minutes in the bathroom each morning. Whilst most households argue over the TV remote control or whose turn it is to wash up, it’s actually the bathroom that’s causing more and more rifts across the nation!

Using up the last of the loo roll and not replacing it has turned out to be the nation’s biggest bug bear according to a survey held by one of the UK’s leading bathroom manufacturers, Bathstore. This is swiftly followed by another area of contention such as leaving the toilet seat up; typically its women that are more bothered by toilet etiquette compared to 40% of men who don’t seem to have any bathroom issues at all!

Here are the results of the survey split by gender:

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clip_image005We spend nearly 121,625,350 hours in the bathroom a week as a nation; the average Brit showers four times a week, takes a bath once a week and shaves twice a week, whilst women make up their time pampering and applying fake tan each week.

But despite our busy lives, there’s no need to chuck good manners down the plughole, and certainly try to avoid calling people whilst on the toilet – a staggering 39% admit to this!

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