How Long Britons Keep Their Bathroom Furniture
Bathroom furniture is replaced because it fails, not because it dates, and Furniture in Fashion reports that failure begins at the exposed edges and the base rather than on the visible faces. Our 2026 analysis sets out the sequence: surface marking, then hinge and runner corrosion, then irreversible edge swelling, then structural softening caused by a slow leak at a waste or supply connection. The first two stages are fixable and the last two are not, which makes a twice yearly inspection inside the vanity the single most effective way to extend service life. We identify ventilation as the dominant variable, name the published UK requirement that governs it, and explain why wall hung units outlast floor standing ones. No average ownership period is stated here, because no UK public body publishes one and we will not estimate it....
