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Incredible Space-Saving Toilet Disappears Into a Cabinet
The Hidealoo, invented by design engineer Monty Ravenscroft
The Hidealoo is a space-saving, disappearing toilet that lives inside of a cabinet, and is only meant to be seen while in use:
It was invented by British design engineer Monty Ravenscroft, whose father's health issues required installing a toilet in his bedroom; Ravenscroft, who's spent 25 years devising design and engineering solutions for architecture firms, wanted to maintain the dignity of his father's bedroom while providing toilet facilities on-demand.
Realizing the larger potential market for his invention, Ravenscroft subsequently teamed up with designer Sebastian Conran, formed Hidealoo the company, and secured a £160,000 (USD $199,380) investment from the British Design Fund, a startup incubator, to bring the product to market.
The Hidealoo's steel structure can support up to 400kg (882 pounds), making it more than sturdy enough to support a person, a toilet and the water within it. The flexible waste pipe has been tested for 250,000 opening/closing cycles, meaning it would last for at least 45 years—even if you used the toilet 15 times a day.
I assume that installing one in a retrofit, as opposed to new construction, would require redesigning your bathroom around where the existing toilet main is; I don't have much plumbing experience but assume that's not a trivial thing to move. That aside, "Any competent DIYer or professional plumber can install Hidealoo in just a few hours," the company says. "It fits any standard wall -hung pan and cistern and comes with fittings to couple to the UK standard mains waste pipe."
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If you're curious, you can see some installation case studies here.
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lol, nobody would want this unless enforced by someone. it is disgusting, actually. It is also slow to access if need hurry.
In our country hardly anybody installs a toilet in the bathroom. Even if you don't see it, you can still smell it.
The ICU is an interesting concept except I see it weighs over 400kg. The ingenious thing here is the Hidealoo frame and how you can centralise and build your small bathroom around the toilet pan using standard cabinets and plumbing supplies.
Pretty interesting concept, I actually really like how simple and clean the bathroom looks without the toilet in there.
This should become a standard fixture just to hide any toilet.
Something very similar has been used in the ICU for decades.
pretty smart!