It’s both a hazard for emergencies as well as a hygienic nightmare. We all see the people leaving without washing their hands!
You reminded me of something I learned about back when I worked at Disney - most of the bathroom doors on property swing the way you’re complaining about for reasons I can’t remember but might be because you’re supposed to have clean hands when exiting the bathroom (wash your damn hands!). But Disney’s Animal Kingdom is different, because if an animal gets loose the bathrooms are designed to keep animals out, most animals are going to have trouble figuring out how to pull open the door to get into the bathroom. Good to know in case their new batch of cheetahs also figures out how to escape.
Architects are psychopaths. So most of them?
Bathrooms with pull to open handle doors without paper towels are the worst.
You just need to learn the Joe Rogan spinning sidekick.
That gets you in. How do you get back out?
With the same move. But nobody will close the door at all after you’re done.
I’m not an expert (at all), but I presume that opening a door into a thoroughfare risks hitting someone with the door but opening into a room only risks a person ready to leave (and approaching the door head on?)
Just thoughts…
One compromise might be touchless door handles
I’ve also seen these at my school, but it doesn’t work for all doors since the door needs to be light enough
Neither of these are that accessible though, and I can’t find photos of the better ones
Or people could simply wash their damn hands…
Have you met people? They don’t do that.
accessibility shouldn’t prevent improvements, we can just add the foot handles and handicapped people simply keep operating doors like they currently do.
They’ll still be exposed to fewer germs so they benefit anyways.
That’s fair, both options can exist at the same time in this case
I’ve seen something similar for your arm. It’s larger and at arms length so you can use more of your body weight to pull it open
I have actually seen these foot handles in a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio… pretty nice!
The arm one is dumb because I’ve seen people with unwashed hands grab it. The foot one makes more sense. Although it’s not accessible like you said.
The arm one is dumb because I’ve seen people with unwashed hands grab it
So? If I can manipulate it with my sleeved arm (thus keeping my hands clean), it’s still working pretty well. Sure, I’d prefer not to have my sleeve contact something that someone’s unwashed hands have been on, but better that than my hand.
Use a paper towel to grab the door handle so you don’t have to touch it directly.
This is what I prefer to do, but more and more establishments nowadays are getting rid of paper towels in favor of hand dryers. So then I have to grab the handle barehanded. I try to use my shirt in those cases.
Or you could tear the Dyson hand dryer off the wall and carefully jimmy the door open with it
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Fuck those things.
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Someone might correct me, but if I remember correctly it’s something to do with air flow as well
I’ve only seen doorless toilets in large well ventilated spaces such as some train stations. I don’t think that would go well inside a shopping mall or a restaurant
I got through most of the post/comments thinking this was about stall doors…
It isn’t?
Some of the comments might be about stalls, but I think most of them might be about the door to the bathroom itself. Since a person would wash their hand after leaving the stall and before touching that door, and with a pull door you have to touch that handle.
I realized it with this comment since a doorless stall sounds like a nightmare
Eh, it’s unclear honestly. After reading some comments I realised op maybe meant the direction in which doors open, not the fact that you have to open doors. I don’t know
Toilet doors should face outward, so you can save someone who’s in distress inside.
I can see this for a stall (think someone falling over and blocking the door, or one of those really tight bathroom stalls where you really have to shimmy to get yourself into the stall), a bathroom door itself not as much.
And smash people outside in the face
The moment your elderly mom has a stroke on the toilet, you’ll look back at all the times you got the door in your face and be grateful. What a tiny price to pay for the life of your mother.
I can’t imagine being one of those people that freak out over the littlest thing. I always imagine invader Zim when he learns about germs.
I believe it’s to do with hand cleanliness. When you enter, you push the door as your hands are dirty (maybe shove it with your arm or something), then when you leave your hands are (supposed to be) clean so you pull the door as it’s a nice clean handle to grab.
I don’t get it either, but that’s what I’ve heard as the reason.
If I’m sure about one thing, it’s that people are disgusting. I’d much rather avoid touching the door after using the toilet when my hands are clean. And even in the case that the door is disgusting, you can wash your hands both before and after.
So then we need saloon doors that swing both ways?
Now I have this mental image of people coming in and out of the toilets triumphantly through saloon style doors after doing business
I live in Texas, and I feel like I’ve seen this before. Not necessarily the bathroom itself but in the little hallway that leads to the bathrooms.
I actually think this or just a double hinged *kitchen style" door is the best answer
We need those cool and unnecessarily complicated sci-fi doors that open with multiple stages or like a camera aperture or a Stargate iris.
Fuck that. I want the swish sound sliding doors from the original series of trek.
I want the doors from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that make a sigh sound when they open.
No. Every. Single. Door has an automated 30 second vault-like opening sequence.
Yes, this every time you go to the bathroom.
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We have outwards opening bathroom doors in the office and they’re great for giving people concussions and bumps on their head, as well as knocking coffees out of people’s hands. When we pass these doors in the hallway we put our hands up like our abusive dad went for a high five.
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TBH I want to know where they were when this building was built. Who came up with this and who allowed it?
if its an older building it may have been built before those laws and then grandfathered in (which is bullshit)
Nope, it was built within the last 10 years. I don’t know what Danish building codes are like but these are definitely built different from everywhere else I’ve been in Denmark
Thank you! Same exact thought, I was telling my friends this a while back, and they said I was making no sense
