Duckboards

The stalking's going to drive you quackers Sorry, someone had to say it!

Just to let you know that I am now being stalked by an Amazon duckboard!

Duckboards sound good but cleaning them I would think is a pain. I imagine them to be like the wooden draining boards around butler sinks which used to get grotty. I wouldn't have one of those either and as for a tumble twist toilet seat, I would ask 'Why?'

Rubber ducks are wonderful, especially yellow ones drifting on ocean currents.

I've got a cork mat in the bathroom [very 1970's ]. Doesn't slip; when not in use it lives behind the sink [very well behaved]. Not sure what it's like bacteria wise though .

Tantalised!

Maybe it was!

Must be boredom, am now killing time before DS gets back from uni for Easter, this afternoon. Duckboards now seem thoroughly riveting.

Re washing them every day - DS has had a long battle with fungal infections, from doing a lot of sport in smelly trainers. Hence trying out duckboards.

But you do like rubber ducks

don't you?

Anyway this is a stupid thread. If you don't want a duckboard don't get a duckboard. I really couldn't give a damn about duckboards, bath mats or where you hang them or when you wash them. I'm off to do something less boring.

So there! Sticks to tongue out in childish gesture and waggles fingers in ears.

Actually, mine is so old it isn't rubber backed, but I think many new ones are.

Don't like rubber-backed bath mats.

Mine doesn't get smelly either.

Don't have a carpeted bathroom either.

Mind you we've never had a carpeted bathroom. Lino or wood.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Tantalised!

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

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.

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

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.

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!