Things to do in your avante cloakroom, No.3:
Clean your wellies in your brand spanking new avante bowl - then spend twice as long cleaning the basin to make it look as good as new.
Aaaargh! It's just so annoying: anyone who knows anything about bathrooms and cloakrooms knows that the only place you find a sink is in the kitchen (or, at a push, in a utility room). Despite this, at least 8.75 people out of 10 seem unable to catch on and continue to talk about the new sink that they're looking for in the spare bathroom.
If you look at the dictionary, it's made perfectly clear - sink n. 1. Place in which foul liquid collects (now usu. fig.). {presumably when someone decides to wash their smelly socks in the kitchen for some unknown reason, but we'll ignore this bit}. 2. Large fixed basin for washing crockery etc., usu. rectangular, made of porcelain, stone, metal etc. with pipe for escape of water to a drain, and usu. with supply of water connected with it.
When was the last time you washed crockery in the bathroom or cloakroom? Students excepted, I suspect you never do it and never have done it.
Loathe as I am to jump on the bandwagon and sling mud at our friends from across the Atlantic, I do have to blame the Americans for this predicament. Just as a faucet has become common usage for a tap, they seem to have been unable to deal with having different names for basins and sinks, so they just did away with the good ole' "basin".
Given that avante bathrooms trades on ebay it would seem churlish of me to finger point at this fine institution, but ebay perpetuates the problem by having a bathroom category labelled "Sinks" and not "Basins". Despite several attempts to change this, nothing has happened.
Whilst the world will keep on turning and I admit that there are far more important things in life, it's just plain wrong to talk about a sink being in a bathroom or a cloakroom, so please can we just stop it now? If we can, I'll be eternally grateful as it will mean I would be able to stop having to write "365mm Corian basin/sink" in my listings to make sure that we get searched on. It would also be one less keyword to have to worry about.
Gary Baker
avante bathrooms
0113 201 2259
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