Stupid question from a stupid person

[Darth Wagtaros]

Just sit the toilet paper on the counter.  It's right there.

No, you'd have to stand up and walk a few feet to  the counter. 

Your shitter isn't near the sink counter? What do you do, play racquetball in there?

If you don't want to have to turn around to grab it off the tank, can you at least leave it on the edge of the tub?

Not near the tub.  It'd have to be on the tank. 

[garbon]

Youtube is banned in China.

I can watch Youtube with no problem in HK.  China has its own version of video sharing network (I think there are a couple in fact).  Pretty sure the household fixing stuff isn't banned 

Unless it is a code!

[viper37]

I have to put in a toilet paper holder.  Do dry wall anchors go into the wood stud or can they just go into the drywall

they go into the wood stud, they are meant to go there, to hang on to something after crossing the drywall.

[Maximus]

they go into the wood stud, they are meant to go there, to hang on to something after crossing the drywall.

The whole point of a drywall anchor is it anchors to drywall. If you're fastening to a stud you just use a screw.

That said I don't think I'd trust a toilet paper holder to drywall anchors. With that many forces acting on it even the best drywall anchors will eventually loosen up and tear out.

[sbr]

they go into the wood stud, they are meant to go there, to hang on to something after crossing the drywall.

The whole point of a drywall anchor is it anchors to drywall. If you're fastening to a stud you just use a screw.

That said I don't think I'd trust a toilet paper holder to drywall anchors. With that many forces acting on it even the best drywall anchors will eventually loosen up and tear out.

What do you do to your TP holder, hang from it?

[Maximus]

It's not the magnitude of the forces, but the number and variety. Drywall is quite soft. All those little bumps and tugs will leave an impression and one it's loose the forces become magnified.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Your shitter isn't near the sink counter? What do you do, play racquetball in there?

My master shitter is set off in a little closet-like area.  We have a little wire roll cart in there where we keep the extras, though.

[Iormlund]

Your shitter isn't near the sink counter? What do you do, play racquetball in there?

I know a guy (very successful doctor) who has a bathroom nearly as big as my whole flat. It has the same things any bathroom has and for the most part (not the bathtub) they are all exactly the same size as everyone else's. So they are scattered around, seemingly at random. It's ridiculous. 

[Caliga]

My master shitter is set off in a little closet-like area.  We have a little wire roll cart in there where we keep the extras, though.

Same.  We almost never use that one, ironically... instead we use the upstairs 'guest' bathroom where the toilet is in fact right next to the sink.

[grumbler]

It's not the magnitude of the forces, but the number and variety. Drywall is quite soft. All those little bumps and tugs will leave an impression and one it's loose the forces become magnified.

Katmai says you are wrong, and that drywall doesn't crumble under pressure or vibration.

I, of course, recognize that you are correct, and further argue that anything that can be anchored in a stud should be anchored in a stud.

[viper37]

they go into the wood stud, they are meant to go there, to hang on to something after crossing the drywall.

The whole point of a drywall anchor is it anchors to drywall. If you're fastening to a stud you just use a screw.

That said I don't think I'd trust a toilet paper holder to drywall anchors. With that many forces acting on it even the best drywall anchors will eventually loosen up and tear out.

I tought he meant the screw... But I see now what he's talking about, so my bad.  It doesn't go through the wood.

[katmai]

It's not the magnitude of the forces, but the number and variety. Drywall is quite soft. All those little bumps and tugs will leave an impression and one it's loose the forces become magnified.

Katmai says you are wrong, and that drywall doesn't crumble under pressure or vibration.

I, of course, recognize that you are correct, and further argue that anything that can be anchored in a stud should be anchored in a stud.

grumbles of all people, trying to tell me what I'm saying! 

[Malthus]

Your shitter isn't near the sink counter? What do you do, play racquetball in there?

I know a guy (very successful doctor) who has a bathroom nearly as big as my whole flat. It has the same things any bathroom has and for the most part (not the bathtub) they are all exactly the same size as everyone else's. So they are scattered around, seemingly at random. It's ridiculous. 

I blame real estate porn. 

"Oh look, the ensuite bathroom of the master bedroom is so large it has its own ensuite bathroom!"

[Brazen]

Trust the drywall anchors (or plasterboard rawlplugs as we call them here). They've kept up coat hooks, towel rails, medicine cabinets and, yes, toilet roll holders for me. I'm qualified, I own a cordless power drill.

Physics mean the forces travel down the length of the wall, not pulling out of it.

Just make sure the paper hangs on the outside, not next to the wall.

[Tonitrus]

Or the from-a-more-reputable-company....



Seriously, though, I've used one of the 3M hooks for a coat hanger, and that thing has held two of my coats (and they are not light, I am a big guy) for several months without fail.