The Olive Garden and Your Outdoor Bathroom: A Comparative Story

Here you are at the Olive Garden, you order a scrumptious meal and wait for it to arrive. Your sweet waiter comes in with a huge plate of spaghetti. Oh it looks so delicious, and the nice waiter goes away, telling you he’ll be right back with your silverware.

You wait and wait and he doesn’t come. 10, 15, 20 minutes go by and he still isn’t there. You decide to use the bread and a bit of fingerwork to try the spaghetti. Mmm, delicious, but a bit cold. Then you drop spaghetti on your spiffy new outfit. Some goes on the floor and you slip on it with your foot. Suddenly, an outing to The Olive Garden isn’t so much fun – and to top it off, eating your spaghetti wasn’t all that safe. It got you into trouble, caused you to ruin that new outfit -  and you almost fell to boot.

When cleaning and spiffing up outdoor areas like decks, pool areas and outdoor bathrooms without using proper equipment or precautionary measures, it can be much like this outing you made to the Olive Garden.  You must use the right type of equipment and take extensive safety measures.  For this type of job you certainly want to have a good power washer, a professional bathroom inspection and the right kind of tools.

 

Prioritize safety when powerwashing

Patios, decks and outdoor entertaining areas often need some TLC. Homeowners looking forward to enjoying the warm air again often start their annual chore of readying such areas for the entertaining season in the spring, and cleaning outdoor furniture and entertaining areas is a big part of that process. Very often individuals turn to pressure washing machines to clean such areas; while pressure and power washers are effective, they also can be dangerous if homeowners don’t prioritize safety when operating these machines.

 

On another day let’s assume you go to The Olive Garden again. You’ve forgiven them for not bringing you silverware the other day, after all, they were busy. So you go again. This time the wait staff is very helpful, you order, get your drinks and stand up to go to the restroom. OMG. Look at the restroom. It looks filthy. Of course, on further inspection you realize it’s not filth, but just old bathroom fixtures. The floors are fine but the sink basins and the toilets are yellow and stained. It makes you want to run for the hills.

To make a long story short; you don’t enjoy your meal. And that’s what your home outdoor  bathroom can be like. No amount of power washing your decks, floors and windows is going to make old, forgotten outdoor  bathroom fixtures work.  So whether you are working on an outdoor, or an indoor bathroom for that matter, this is the point where you might want to call in a qualified South Florida plumber to give you some cool new design inspirations.

Keep It Cool: 15 Inspiring Outdoor Bathrooms and Showers

I love being outdoors, and I love long showers, so to me, the combination of those two things = pure bliss. Now all I need, besides an endless summer, is a backyard with a little more, er, privacy.

 

Bottom Line

Outdoor areas can be lots of fun, especially if you happen to have an outdoor bathroom. You can host entertaining activities like barbecues, a fun day at the pool and more. But you also have to give these outdoor areas some tender loving care. An outdoor bathroom needs as much design thought and plumbing work as an indoor one. So choose carefully and you’ll end up enjoying hours of pleasure in your gorgeous back yard.

 

 

 

 

 

The post The Olive Garden and Your Outdoor Bathroom: A Comparative Story appeared first on .