Seriously; why not? What would be wrong with having a urinal at home? Why don't home bathrooms have one? It would save water and be a major convenience.
I guess cuz you have to take a shit either way so you might as well just have one. I get your point though, I think all use 1 gallon a flush typically.
if it were up to me, i'd have a urinal and a bidet. along with a toilet, not instead of one obviously.
I sometimes wonder why they don't actually have real public restrooms. I mean there are some but u have to go inside of another place that has them, why not actually have standalone restrooms that way people don't have to piss ACTUALLY in public. I know I know...they'd have to actually give someone a JOB to keep that restroom clean (or at least safe/not a biohazard lol). I've seen restrooms where u had to put a quarter In the door tho, there was always a line and u'd have to catch the door and people would get pissed if you let it shut cuz u'd have to pay again.
You don't actually have to flush after a pee. When we were under strict water restrictions we weren't allowed to and you just get a urinal soap and put it in the basin and then the water goes blue and smells nice and dilutes all the urine in the bowl so you don't need to flush. Probably sounds nasty but it's not.
I think the very first automatic flushing toilets required a ten gallon tank of water per flush...talk about wasting water...
Before I bought my house I live in now I looked at a house that had a urinal. It was actually a selling point for me. I figured it would be a good way to keep my husband from peeing on the seat. I would put one in my house if I had space for it.
Although my guy is pretty good with his aim and he is perfect about keeping the seat down, I would vote for a urinal in the master bathroom if we were building a house...which someday I hope we do.
We looked at a show home with a gym set up in the basement. The washroom was awesome. It included a big open shower with no doors and urinal. Being that I have two sons I definitely will consider a urinal in our next house.
The urinal we had in the sleeping quarters on campus when I was at college was made of Stainless Steel, and I still remember what a racket it made rattling away whilst you had a pee, letting everyone in the habitation block know what was going on. There was also a combo toilet / bidet which was even worse as far as noise was concerned. As soon as the button for the bidet was pressed the powerful motors would kick in, which were noisy enough on their own, but both the toilet bowl & the room acted as sound boards, amplifying it all, just like an acoustic guitar. Also, just as with shower units it would take quite a while for the water flow to reach its ideal temperature so, especially on cold, winter days, the first thing you would experience, for the next 20 - 30 seconds was a shot of icy cold water. What was even worse was that once started it ran for a fixed period & couldn't be stopped until the its timed routine was completed. I remember the first day at college I didn't realise what it was, and when I stood up & went to flush I pressed the wrong button & was immediately drenched by a jet of water shooting straight up from the back of the bowl.
