Misunderstood: What you know vs what you don’t know.
Misunderstood: What they know vs what they don’t know.
I teach both the Bath Design and the CAD courses in the Kitchen & Bath Design program at Georgian College. Quite a few of the students every year have a hard time with proper toilet and toilet paper holder placement and consistently put the toilet either too far or too close to an adjacent wall or the toilet paper holder too far back or forward on the adjacent wall or on the wall behind the toilet. Even though they lose marks for this, there is always at least 1 student that places the toilet and toilet paper holder incorrectly in their final projects. Following NKBA drawing standards the toilet can be no closer than 15” on centre or further than 18” on centre from an adjacent wall or other structure. Ideally I tell them to always try to land at 18” or somewhere between the 15 and 18. The toilet paper holder has its own set of design standards to follow.
I often hear about the placements of their own toilets at home and even though it may be closer than 15” on centre or further than 18” on centre it works for them so it must be ok.
This coming fall I am going to give an exercise to do at home which will include the following:
- A tape measure.
- Placing a chair at various distances from a wall.
- Placing a piece of tape to various places on the adjacent wall and the wall behind the toilet to replicate the toilet paper holder
- Record their findings following the placement measurements I’ll give them for both the toilet and the toilet paper holder.
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