Where are the self-opening doors?

Best approach are service stations and some shopping centres where there are no doors, just windy paths.
 
At Morrisons near me they have two air blowers quite close to each other -I put one hand under each - I have also found if you make your hand like a tail fin on a plane then you can scoot the plastic waste bin along the floor :D:D
 
If you have a power cut, the door must fail 'safe' ie open.

So there you are with your crackers around your ankles....
 
stockhausen said:
However, having carefully washed and dried your hands you then have to grab the germ infested door handle and pull it to get out! What genius thinks up and/or specifies these brilliant hygiene schemes?
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Even having a door that opens outwards so you can push it open with your foot would be a massive improvement...

As I have said before, I wont touch anything that anybody else (You know, Random stranger of unknown provenance, especially in Brighton! ;) :p ) has touched in a public loo as far as I can help it.

What they should do is have a bottle of the hand steriliser outside the loo so people can rinse their hands in it after they have left.

I carry my own.
 
There should be sinks and dryers that are easily accessible to the penis.
That chap gets a nice wash in the morning and then sits there in clean pants all day to then get manhandled by disgusting hands that have touched lord knows what on the way in to the loo.
 
nkata said:
If you have a power cut, the door must fail 'safe' ie open.

So there you are with your crackers around your ankles....
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You too have kinda missed the point.
Orionaut said:
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What they should do is have a bottle of the hand steriliser outside the loo [IN A PROMINENT POSITION] so people can rinse their hands in it after they have left.
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That would be a VERY good idea, they have them all over the place in hospitals and in many GP Surgery waiting areas :)
 
They've got one on the disabled toilets at work. Its complex, expensive, and needs a specialist to set it up/repair. A regular door with a regular hinge and lock is cheap and just requires a guy with a screwdriver.

Its been locked off for weeks because its forever breaking down and I think management have given up with it whereas a simple hinge and lock... it just works and the technology has been around for millenia.

Jokester said:
Those Dyson hand driers are riddled with bacteria.
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I try really hard not to touch the sides putting my hands in there... not so easy
 
Automatic doors are expensive to fit and even worse to maintain and service.

They break down all the time, my company look after a load of them in various buildings we are forever having them repaired or replaced.
 
Have the foot based handles you can open with your shoe, simple, cheap....
 
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Everyone is worried about inadvertently indirectly getting penis hands, when a bigger health risk is the buttons in a hospital lift. Imagine how many ill people have pressed that lobby button.
 
I'm not sure if they are true, but I've heard several gross stories at one customer site, one included the Dyson hand drier.

I have my doubts about this, but I heard someone removed the cover and put a poo in there, so it would be blowing air over the poo to dry your hands :(

Another story I do believe from the same place is that traces of urine were found in the water cooler, grim.
 
Nick1881 said:
I'm not sure if they are true, but I've heard several gross stories at one customer site, one included the Dyson hand drier.

I have my doubts about this, but I heard someone removed the cover and put a poo in there, so it would be blowing air over the poo to dry your hands :(

Another story I do believe from the same place is that traces of urine were found in the water cooler, grim.
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They find traces of poo everywhere.

Given a lot of people give their hands a cursory rinse before drying, it’s no wonder air driers are riddled with germs.
 
stockhausen said:
However, having carefully washed and dried your hands you then have to grab the germ infested door handle and pull it to get out! What genius thinks up and/or specifies these brilliant hygiene schemes?
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It's not actually anything to do with hygiene it's to do with cost, the "automatic" ones are simply cheaper (I enquired into the rationale a while ago as the "automatic" ones are harder for the disabled to use).

You see the push down taps are cheaper to maintain and much much harder to vandalise that regular taps, you simply cannot fill the sink with toilet paper and leave it running. The automatic hand dryers are more reliable than the push button ones and use less energy, thus cheaper to maintain.

If it was about hygiene then the hand dryers would be replaced with disposable paper towel dispensers and a covered bin, like in a hospital.
 
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