Tales of the Toilet
You never know what you are going to see while touring homes for sale. The past week's odd occurences are centered around toilets. If there is ever anything that you don't want to think too much about, it is toilets and the behavior going on by the occupant of the throne.
The first toilet encountered on yesterday's home tour I call "Homemade Bidet." There was something really wrong about what looked like a veggie hose you would find on a kitchen sink, mounted to the wall, coming from the right side of the powder room tank. Yes, this was in the main bathroom your guests would use at a party. Made me think I should title this post Tails of the Toilet.
This creeped out the wife of the couple I was showing property to tremendously. For starters, she thought this was what a bidet was, as she had never seen one. Of course, we knew that's what they were going for when we made it to the master bathroom and found the real deal. While done right, even the proper bidet freaked out the wife. I'm with her on the first one, pictured to the right.
The husband had a fantastic sense of humor about it and had me in tears I was laughing so hard. Of course, houses on tours develop nicknames. Let me just say, you don't want to be known as the "A** House." The seller needs to remove this powder room contraption ASAP so buyers focus on the home.
We knew toilets were a weird theme for our home tour when we encountered the second toilet, which I call "The Phone Booth." Down the depths of the basement, off the recreation room, was a bathroom that had a phone by the wall. Now, if I were touring homes in a retirement community and saw grab bars by the toilet and shower, the reason for this would have been obvious. However, there was no tell tale sign of an elder who may have trouble living down here. This was just odd, thankfully, not as gross as "The Homemade Bidet."
The third odd ball toilet(s) happened with a different buyer the very next day and I am calling "The Frozen Toilets." It wasn't just one toilet, it was every toilet in the house that had frozen toilet water in ever bowl, and every tank. We were up on a mountain in a home that was registering 13 degrees inside and out. My phone refused to take a picture of the scene, which I chalked up to my phone being frozen.
The owner didn't want to incur costs heating a vacant home while it listed. Those frozen bowls are going to cause the porcelain to crack and ruin the toilets. Definitely more expensive to replace the toilets and correct the water damage than to pay the electric bill.
Those are my tales from the toilet. Do you have any?
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