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The open space at the floor is about ease of mopping. In many places all the bathroom stalls are effectively hung from the ceiling, so there is a continuous til
by Isamu 7y ago
The open space at the floor is about ease of mopping. In many places all the bathroom stalls are effectively hung from the ceiling, so there is a continuous tiled floor with a single drain. This is to make it faster to mop up.
It's probably because we don't want to employ more than one janitor to mop up.
- tuna-piano 7y agoThat doesn't answer the question about the vertical gap between the doors (more invasive in my opinion). I've seen totally normal white collar office buildings with large gaps which the workers have covered with toilet paper, fabric, cardboard, etc. The makeshift seal was there for months (still there when I left the company). Why is this a solution that needs jerry-rigged solutions instead of a normal solution like everywhere else in an office building?
- hanniabu 7y agoYeah I never understood it either, it's very simple to have the components overlap. You don't need to worry about additional parts or tolerances or anything like that. Everything stays the same but the arrangement changes.
- thelittleone 7y agoIs it just me or are these gaps getting larger? I travel to the US a couple of times a year for 15 years and it seems that way to me. It's disturbing that the probability is quite high that whilst searching for a vacant cubicle, your eyes may well lock with the single enlarged eye of a terrified pooper. This is not a bond I want to make.
- roel_v 7y ago"This is not a bond I want to make." Once made, it's unbreakable though.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoPanel gaps are just a feature of installation and manufacturing irregularities. You’re often drilling into concrete and people just don’t know what they’re doing. Better too loose (big gap) than too tight (door doesn’t close, need to re-drill the holes) is the thinking. You can install the doors properly with no gap, but it requires everything be square and plumb and all that. And then not get damaged.
- Macha 7y agoWhy is this gap standard in America and basically absent in europe? It's not like these concerns are US-exclusive.
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- erikpukinskis 7y agoEurope tends to like good standards. Americans tend to question them and then do whatever they want to do. Europe also tends to cultivate a village mentality where people trust each other to follow decorum. America tends to operate as if vaguely hostile strangers are rolling through town all the time.
- joegahona 7y agoThe gap is there so you can look in and see if anyone's in there before walking in and sitting on the pooper's lap.
- bennylope 7y agoSomeone should invent a mechanism that "locks" the door in place from the inside so that this can't happen.
- seattle_spring 7y agoWhat a preposterous and illogical suggestion.
- viraptor 7y agoWhat if... This is crazy, but what if the lock also exposed different colour so a locked one is red, but an unlocked one is green? ;)
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoWhere I work you can easily tell the occupied stalls from the presence of people's feet at the bottom. Except for the ADA stall. You have to glance at it through the mirror as you enter the bathroom to get the right angle to determine if occupied. All full? Turn around and try another floor.
- Macha 7y agoYou can have that with more privacy than the average US toilet. This still has the same cleaning advantage: http://www.ironwood-mfg.com/Pictures/Full%20Size/European1.jpg http://www.ironwood-mfg.com/Pictures/Full%20Size/European1.j... But I see this way more often in the US: https://globalpartitions.com/wp-content/uploads/ASI-SolidPlasticPartitions@2x.jpg https://globalpartitions.com/wp-content/uploads/ASI-SolidPla...
- bloak 7y agoThe huge gap under the door looks like it might be to discourage people from having sex in the cubicles. However, I'm not sure why that would be more of a worry in the USA than elsewhere.