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Recently saw a door with a little tab at the bottom to put your foot on and open it that way, surprisingly functional.
I absolutely love those things. I don’t understand why they aren’t everywhere. I’ve seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime
They’re not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
99.9% of washrooms I use don’t have either a foot thingy or an accessible button lol, so that’s not the case (because they just make one accessible separate washroom)
I’ve only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.
Really? They’re everywhere where I live.
Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
Yeah, bacteria take about a second or so to go through that if there is any moisture
Use a paper towel to open the door and toss it into the next garbage you see outside the bathroom. Or toss it into the trash as you leave.
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Or just simply lick the hand clean after you’ve opened the door.
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
I just use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands
The objectively correct way^
Theoretically, if everyone did the Yes, the But wouldn’t be that big of a But.
Sadly, I’m well aware not everyone does the Yes. Going into a men’s public bathroom is disgusting; it’s disgraceful how many men I’ve seen leave without washing.
My favorite was a guy in college who came in, used the urinal, used the hand dryer, and left.
Do you expect him to leave with wet urine on his hands? Those dryers are made specifically for drying urine and blowing away the smell. That’s clearly what the little picture on them means.
i hate this so much
And then they ask why you stopped handshaking
I know where my dick has been. Usually.
Edit: Why so serious?
I genuinely don’t even know what you’re trying to say with that comment.
They are saying that they don’t feel like their hands are getting dirty by touching their dick because their dick is in their underpants all day.
The flaw to this argument is that your dick and balls can get sweaty and gross in there. And when you touch it, your hands can get gross too. Not to mention that your hands can get gross just by walking around and touching things in society. And the bathroom stop is meant to be a bio-break that enforces washing all the germs from your hands from walking around in society.
All the more reason to wash.
My hands harbor far more bacteria than my dick. And so does that door handle, the grossest part of the whole business.
My toilet is cleaner than 99% of my ancestors cooking tools.
For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people’s population never broke a million either.
Nah, im part baboon, only been around for a few hundred years tops.
Thanks king kong!
*Donkey Kong
Donkey dong
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it’s actually a push.
Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.
I guess you’re right, but that’s probably not how I’d install it.
You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull
You are correct, perhaps the door is entirely nonfunctional.
Trick question. That door doesn’t work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
I don’t get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.
Educated your heathen friend here.
the door closer on the top will bind up on itself in that position.
Many places put these on the bottom of the door for this very reason. Granted they only help people able to use them.
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
Is this not common elsewhere?
I wish. I’m surprised we haven’t brought back pay toilets in the US.
I have been joking with my roommate lately that we’re probably only a decade or so out from landlords putting coin-op toilets in apartments. What a capitalist dystopia it’ll be.
Like the cigarette dispenser in Dallas’ apartment from the 5th element. Pretty sure he had advertisements in his apartment when he woke up. I need to revisit that gem, been a while.
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
Yeah we have that in Europe on highway stops and other places with high traffic of people like stadiums, big concert venues etc.
My workplace does this, there’s still a door but it’s always open
That’s what most airports, schools, and such seem to have in my experience. (U.S.)
Which makes it REALLY hard to vape in there
Nothing like losing your balance or getting your foot jammed when someone slams the door open from the other side. I prefer the wheelchair buttons
Best I can do is a Palantir face recognition device that verify your identity before allowing you out of the bathroom
If you make sure it doesn’t let you out unless you wash your hands, I’m all for it.
Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.
I’ve hyperextended my knee using one. Good times. Hyperextension used to be a “oh that sucked” but as I get older they’re more and more a "oh shit is this the time it fails on me? " territory.
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald’s, where it’s constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that’s when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
Huh never considered this, thanks
In my country it is illegal to have bathroom doors open to the inside. Same with doors leading outside. It was weird to move abroad as I couldn’t get used to them opening the other way.
I’ve seen a lot of places add those foot pull handles to doors since COVID. Not the best, but it’s a solution
I never saw this but want them everywhere. I just have to try to grab the doors/handles on unusual places where not many people would touch them
Some places have little foot hooks at the bottom.
I wonder if push to enter doors cut down on injuries of people rushing to the toilet, or if it’s just because they usually open into corridors.
It’s unsafe for doors to open into hallways, so you need to design alcoves for every entrance otherwise, so far more space is wasted.
Also, use paper to open the door, and a lot of places have foot pulls now, easier for handicapped people as well.
The best entrance, especially for handicapped people, is a maze entrance, but uses even more space.
On the other hand doors opening to the inside are less safe in case of an emergency. In my country, all doors in public places must open towards the exit of the building.
That’s due to a panic response and people pressing against the doors so you can’t pull them open. That only happens after a certain amount of people. The couple dozen max in a bathroom or most office and conference rooms won’t have that issue. But all the doors from the hallways out will swing towards the path of egress though.
Codes stipulate the occupancy amount that requires it, I believe the model building codes of NA and most of Europe calls for 100 people occupancy. Unless it’s been changed in the last few years.
I don’t know by what magic a door is safe opening one way but not another. It surely depends on where the door is.
Kid running down a hallway gets a door in the face when it opens in the hallway. Or someone evacuating during an emergency.
This is so unbelievably close to being a single image I’m confused as to why they bothered separating it into two panels
Pisses me off, especially considering that like 70% of men don’t wash their hands. I’ve become an expert in using my elbow.
Edit: pisses off → pisses me off
Open the door with a paper towel because men are fucking gross.
Imma be real unless you’re full on immune compromised it’s not that serious
I always open doors with my hands (I know, weirdo right?) and very rarely get sick. People are being overly dramatic.
Its not about getting sick. It’s about getting filth on your just cleaned hands.
If you can’t see it and it doesn’t get you sick it’s honestly not an issue beyond being a overly conscious about germs.
If it doesn’t get me sick, why care?
Let me guess you also refused to wear a mask during COVID. Sometimes stuff isn’t about you.
Nope, I proudly used a mask, take your assumptions somewhere else.
Spreading germs can get other people sick. Washing hands is not hard.
Tell me you’ve never seen how fucking nasty women’s restrooms are in comparison…
As someone who has spent years cleaning both - men’s restrooms are predictably gross the same way every day. Women’s restrooms are typically cleaner until they aren’t. Then they really aren’t. Piss on the floor - not in a stall, blood randomly sprayed around somehow, shit literally smeared by hand on the wall.
Oh noo toilet seats are too gross! I must hang from the ceiling and rain down piss from 2 meters above. Oh oops I got blood on the seat. I’m sure the next occupant will be happy to clean it up with 1 ply toilet paper!
Amen…
That’s what I do all the time. Just use the towel to open it up.
I read paper towels are actually quite porous and don’t help much
When that’s possible, I prefer it. But my office unfortunately uses those stupid air dryers by Dyson. I petitioned TWICE to replace them, and failed both times… *sobs*
Aaahhh finally, so I’m not the only person wondering about this at just about every friggin bathroom visit…
As everyone has already said, use the paper towels. Some doors are also equiped with a small piece of metal at the base of the door which you step on, and pull with your shoe
That foot thing is an awful design IMO. Rather than a step-on to pull, it should be a design that allows you to flex your foot up and hook it under something to pull. The step-on kind necessarily requires you to put weight on it, letting off pressure on your other foot thereby causing instability. This can be difficult to manage for lighter people or on doors requiring a heavier pull force to open. The hook under kind would stabilize the person trying to open the door.
Edit: there have been some good arguments for why the step-on kind has advantages. Clearly the only answer is for bathrooms to have two doors. One with a step-on and one with a hook-under.
But realistically the hook-under could easily have a top portion allowing step-on utilization as well.
Counter argument: having to hook your foot runs the risk of damaging the tops of your shoes (often softer material) or your foot if you’re wearing sandals. You can be sure that the bottoms of everyone’s shoes are designed for at least minimal impact protection.
I like the foot step and use them when I can, but it helps to reinforce that the paper towel with a well-placed trash can is the best method imo.
Handicapped people can press down, but not lift up, especially those in a wheelchair.
Neither option is good, tbh. Hook under allows better grip for those capable, but doesn’t allow for some disabled people. Step on increases the likelihood of usability but also increases the likelihood of becoming unbalanced and falling.
Both options ignore the possibility of broken toes when someone on the outside attempts to push the door in at the moment you’ve got your foot planted on it or hooked under it.
We live in an era where automatic doors and push buttons to open them are a well established thing. Do that instead.
Barring that, the hallway with two turns like Walmart uses is an option. Just make sure they’re wide enough for the widest wheelchairs and power chairs, and the turns aren’t too tight.
Ah-ha, so this is the maze entry the other comment was talking about.
I don’t disagree, I still use a paper towel. When it was first installed they forgot to modify the mechanism that closes the door on one of the bathrooms. The tension was set still set to prevent someone from being smashed in the face (or the door from slamming shut), but that meant you needed apply a fair amount of force to open the door. They’ve since adjusted it and now it’s pretty easy to open with just one foot
The kind you describe is the only type I’ve ever seen.
The way people behave in airport bathrooms bothers me. The bathroom gets cleaned 5 times a day and people still use a mountain of tp on the seat and flush the toilet with their foot like a bunch of homo zombies with norovirus just rode the handle.
But if you must do the above, in any restroom with soap, wash your hands afterwards. You’d want your doctor to.
that bothers you? Consider yourself lucky if you’ve never heard/seen someone disgustingly snorting their snot into the sinks, or washing their feet in it.
I’m unlucky :\
I almost always flush the handle with my foot if the handle looks gross. I’m sorry but cleaning it is not my job.
