Re: [GBlist] house thoughts

["clark ellison" <cellison1@austin.rr.com>]

If I wanted to do the "design standard" home thing, I would not be on this
list.

The highway needs to be wider because of the people that want their vehicles
to be as big as their homes not the size of their rear ends. The majority of
people I know that have the giant rigs like Prevost are around five feet
five and do not weigh a hundred pounds. Even though I am not one with a
large ass, I feel that your remarks were uncalled for and derogatory.You
seem to have related everything to the size of someone's butt. I have size
fourteen feet, if you stuff the toilet into a "small"space it may or may not
be useable for me. And I know teenagers that have size sixteen feet, believe
me, you do not want a fifteen year old boy with these apendages in the tiny
stall you suggest. While you incline toward the privacy I incline toward
being able to use it. In my opinion it needs a wall or similar object on one
side to keep the paper in / on. Past that point it is already in a room
designed for it. If it is open on one side and the front it is accessible to
someone that has mobility issues different from yours it is a good design.
And while we are at it why not install a handicap style toilet when
building? They are more comfortable and are usable by more people. They look
the same, they are just a little taller so easier to get off of.
Code minimums? Redundant as code is the minimum.


> I feel a bit lost in all the commentary. To begin with and to set the
record
> straight on toilet clearances I was not refering to code minimums so much
as
> "design standards" which tend to create 1'6 clearances between such
objects.
> 30" I can appreciate and have shaved a few inches off occaisionally,
knowing
> full well that a smaller measurement can represent both intamacy as well
as
> comfort. I will also however concede that americans are big people or are
> evolving to be more so and require big clearances between objects or will
> need such clearances in the future, but does this also mean that highways
> have to become wider because the clearance between a large drivers seat
and
> a large coffee requires a wider wheebase.
>
> JOHN SALMEN
> TERRAIN E.D.S.
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