Royal flush for King David - first urinal for a family home!

Watersave News release May, 2005 throne 1

Royal flush for King David

A home is a man's castle and a toilet is his throne and now, just like a king, an average Australian householder can enjoy a separate throne of his own.
This new symbolic throne for the home is the innovative and affordable Uridan water-free urinal from Watersave Australia.
The first customers in Australia to buy these urinals for their homes say they are a royal treat.
Watersave envisages a future in which its regal brand of urinal is installed in millions of homes throughout Australia.
Hundreds of Uridan urinals have been installed already in business and public buildings around Australia.
Architect Martyn Shedd of the Gold Coast in Queensland is the first customer in Australia to have one of these urinals installed in a house, although this urinal is shared not only by his two sons but also by employees of his home business.
The first customer in Australia to have one of the urinals installed in his house exclusively for the use of his family is Dave Davies of Newcastle in New South Wales.
Dave compares a man having a urinal to a woman having a bidet, as a queen has her own throne, but he remarks that to him a urinal seems far more useful than a bidet.
He says he and his three sons do make plenty of use of their new urinal.
Both the Shedd and the Davies families say their urinals are a wonderful topic of conversation when friends, neighbours and relatives visit.
Watersave, the exclusive distributor of the urinals in Australia and New Zealand, says it is the innovative design of the urinals which makes them convenient and affordable to home owners.
The urinals are designed to work without a cistern - without having to be flushed. So they save on plumbing and water costs, and that is a royal flush for any home owner!
Yet the distributor says the water-free urinals are hygienic and odourless.
Each Uridan urinal has a waste trap sealed with a floating layer of vegetable oil. Urine drains under a stainless steel cover, through the layer of oil in the trap and away into the waste pipe.
They say the urinals are easy to clean and maintain, the oil needing to be replaced about twice a year in a home.
Martyn, who lives with his wife, two sons and one daughter at Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast, says, "We must be saving a lot of water because we are around the house a lot and every time we use the urinal we do not have to flush it.
"It is completely odourless as long as you keep it clean," he says. "A toilet brush cleans it up fine."
He says, "Most people are surprised to see it and comment on what a good idea it is."
Dave, a printing maintenance manager who lives with his wife and three sons at New Lambton in Newcastle, says, "The urinal is a real talking point when friends visit to see our new bathroom.
"It is a lot cleaner with boys growing up who cannot seem to shoot straight."
He says, "It works fine. It is indeed odourless and easy to clean. My wife was dubious to begin with but she is definitely convinced now.
"A water-free urinal is a lot cheaper to install than a flushing urinal because it does not need a cistern."
Dave says, "You go into all these plumbing supply shops and see them selling bidets although I do not know who would ever use a bidet, whereas a urinal is definitely far more functional."
Watersave Australia distributes Uridan water-free urinals throughout Australia and New Zealand for manufacturers in Denmark. Contact Watersave Australia Pty Ltd, 57 Cope Street, Lane Cove, NSW 2066; phone 1300 368 603; fax 02 9420 3357; email info@watersave.com.au ; web www.watersave.com.au .

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Picture captions:

One of the first urinals to be installed in any house in Australia, a
Uridan urinal in the home of Martyn Shedd of the Gold Coast.

One of the first urinals to be installed in any house in Australia, a Uridan urinal in the home of Dave Davies of Newcastle.

Pictures can be viewed and downloaded from these web pages:
www.wb-pr.com/ws/ws5.htm and www.wb-pr.com/ws/ws6.htm .


Media contact:

Paul Marsh — phone 9940 0990 or 0403 822 896 or 1300 368 603; fax 02 9420 3357; email info@watersave.com.au .