Seriously though, one of my biggest pet peeves is when they get every other aspect of touch-less design correct, and then fail with the door.
#designfails
Touchless booth door but then it’s occupancy detector is faulty ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
Don’t think you need it that much. You’re going to wash your hands after. There’s a small chance you could contract something before using the bathroom from it, unsure on the likelihood of that transmission.
Don’t those blowers spread way more germs than just using a paper towel?
And you can open the door with a paper towel too. Also, paper is one of our most renewable resources, and most recyclable.
and still et’s energy intense to recycle and a lot of paper (over 60%) is new paper from old woods in th easc of Europe.
I’m in the States so I’m not familiar with situation over there. Here we use super thick plots of trees that grow in about 10 years. We also pulp wood from managed forests where we can’t afford to let it burn, like around major towns. We definitely used to clear cut, but it’s not legal anymore.
My favourite is the kind of S curve that some places have, so you just walk in, but it’s private enough that people can’t just leer from the hallway or whatever I’m not actually sure what we’re accomplishing with doors here unless it’s a very tight space I guess like if the bathroom is near the area where patrons eat at a resto? Yeah I get that, door away. Sorry for rambling.
I worked in an office that had the S curve bathroom and I do not recommend it. People who sat on that side of the floor got to hear the air dryer every time someone used the bathroom. Also, the smells… Automatic door openers are the answer.
I went to college the S curves, as well as one office briefly before the pandemic, but they were both off the “main drag” by a bit. Like along a hallway that didn’t have people just sitting nearby.
As is eternally the case, location matters
Smells?? Seems like bad exhaust system
Sometimes a trash bin is located near the door, so I’ll use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands to open the door, hold the door open with my foot, then throw the paper towel in the bin. But these make hygiene so much easier:
The Step n’ Pull should be standard.
Need those foot handles to kick the door open. God bless establishments that have installed them.
Otherwise, I roll my sleave over my hand and pull the door open. Especially in restaurants.
I don’t like the sleeve method. Grime just hangs out on your sleeves and then gets deep in the fibers. No thank you. I use my pinky and ring fingers when I absolutely have to.
Pinky and ring finger for me too!
The step n pull was actually a shark tank product
A hobby of mine is to get annoyed at hand dryers. 80% of the models I find are eyerollingly useless. Blow a faint breeze for five seconds, stop and refuse to trigger again no matter how much you try to slap the air in front of it.
Then there are those 5% that actually gets it. Blowing a jet stream that makes the water droplets sublimate so fast you forget you even washed.
Small thing, sublimation occurs when a solid converts immediately to a gas with no liquid state between. This happens with dry ice commonly
They all just blow hot germs around though.
Also they are way too fucking loud. Just use paper, people.
Paper runs out and can cause a mess in a busy public restroom.
the dyson airblade v is good
Yup, although it can also have a tendency to stop after a few seconds and refuse to elaborate.
I keep thinking it’d be a good idea to patent a hand dryer that points the detector in one direction and the blower in another, such that to switch it on you have to move your hands out of the air stream, and to switch it off you have to move your hands into it. Your hands get dry not by the blower, but by the action of moving your hands to and fro between the detector and the blower.
Nobody would object or claim prior art because that would put them on record as directly admitting their products are shit.
Then sue everyone whose hand dryers do exactly that. I’d make a killing.
When they have paper towels, what I do is take the last one with which I dried my hands to grab or pinch the door handle and pull.
The shopping mall where I live has the metal stripe at the bottom that’s clearly there to protect the door when you open it with your shoe… But they open inwards to the bathroom.
Easy. Just lick the door handle 3 ~ 4 times to clean it so that you don’t need to get your hands dirty.
That’s how I do it and I’ve only had Covid 5 times! Works like a charm.
Yup! You also sometimes get free nutrients on the door handle ☺️
Spit on it and pull. Spit kills everything, right?
Geez, I hope not.
We’d run out of pornstars!
Oi vey
Apparently saliva does contain some antimicrobial enzymes who knew.
See, my Mom knew when she’d try to clean my face after licking a cloth.
Yeah, this drives me crazy. Best thing I can do if I have a jacket or long sleeved shirt on, is to put my hand inside the sleeve and open it that way
Sometimes the toilet god is merciful and someone comes in at just the right moment.
Kick it
And if it opens to the other side - just kick it harder.
Don’t know about other countries, but in Poland all public spaces have to have doors opening to the outside.
That must be fun for people walking past the outside when you swing the door open.
I don’t know what’s Your point. You can get hit by doors no mater which way they open. And it’s not like the doors from a supermarket open straight on to a busy sidewalk. Don’t You have fire safety code, wherever You’re from?
Elbows, anyone?
Good luck pulling a door handle with elbows
Pffft, can and have.
I was just thinking about that very problem the other day.
Use your dick, it’s dirty. You were washing your hands because you touched it, no?
My problem: none available 😄
You need to work on that grip.
… I’m so sorry.
Ah so use dick to open door. I shall give it a go!
Shouldn’t you just grab a paper towel and open the door with it at the end of the comic strip?
That’s what I usually do 😅
