Duckboards

I did use one but after I stubbed my toe I got rid of it . Please don't put a toilet lid cover on your toilet they are nasty smelly and a breeding ground for bacteria.

Never heard of 'em...

You could always make your own 'Tumbletwist' loo seat cover, I'm sure there'll be a pattern on the wwweb if you have a good look!

Tumble twist ... very 1970s!

Yes, I have a duckboard, from IKEA I think.

Duckboards always remind me of having to use them at the local swimming pool when I was a child.

I had to give in and google them - surely they aren't a new invention...?

Oh yes, Soupy- that's where I remember them from!

No, not a new invention.

The OP made me think they may have been, that's all...

I hate them, we have had a couple in the past because the kids were always flooding the bathroom floor. However, they can tilt if you stand on the edge, and flip up and smack you!

In one of the houses we rented in the south of France last year there was one in DS's bathroom, I took it away and then we discovered that it was impossible to run the shower without flooding the floor, so we had to put it back - then when he stood on it, it slipped out from under him and shot him across the tiles!

Yikes! Mine is much better housed trained than that. It obeys the sit and stay command and has never been known to attack.

They make sure you wash the floor after you have a shower!
We had them last year in the house we stayed at on holiday. We took it up for the kids as they were not used to them and would slide on them.

If you have an absorbent bath/shower mat, you don't need to wash the floor after a shower. Sounds as if those duck boards make more work.

You've confirmed my suspicions, then.

Style over substance.

I bought them when we put new bathrooms in also because they looked "cool" - never used them and chucked them - as squaredog says, style over substance!

It's not a case style over substance squaredog they have their place.

I have a shower in the main bedroom. I don't like stepping out onto the carpet with wet feet, so hence the duckboard. Never caused any problems, but I don't see the point if you have a tiled floor, as in the bathroom.

Doesn't water drip through the gaps in the boards? I'd have thought a bath mat would be more practical.

The idea is to keep you dry, not the floor. They are supposed to replace a bathmat and always having to wash i,t as bacteria aren't supposed to live on them for as long. In the shower room that kept flooding in France, we had to keep a towel on the floor and also use the duckboard on top of it, otherwise it was like paddling. So it did have a use, but I wish the owners had warned us. I think one would be fine on a wooden floor, or tiles that weren't slippery - and also get one that is quite big so that you don't step on one end and cause it to flip up. If you are fed up with washing bathmats they are probably not a bad thing, as long as they are well made. I just stopped using mine because of the flipping, having to pop it into the bath when I vacuumed (wooden floor in large bathroom) and because it was starting to look a bit mouldy. It probably should have been made of tantalised timber or something.

Yes, my point was that I'd imagine Aka's bedroom carpet would get wet!

Tantalised!

Used to have one, hated it, got rid of it. Now have a bathmat very like a thick towel, absorbs well and washes easily.

I have a cork one which I like. Had it for years though, so can't remember where I got it from.

No, carpet doesn't get well wet, possibly the odd drip gets through. My feet are not exactly dripping but they are wet. Carpet would get wet from them, but duckboard gets a bit wet instead. More hygienic than having a damp bath mat on the carpet. That would have to be washed each time.

You don,t have to leave a damp bath mat on the carpet. Most bath mats nowadays have a waterproof backing. One can hang a bath mat on the side of the bath or on a towel rail. I wash mine once in a blue moon. It doesn't get dirty or smelly or mouldy because we air it between uses.

Why would it have to be washed every time? Mine doesn't! It's rubber-backed as well, so damp does not get through to the floor surface.

But each to their own.