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You shouldn't be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.
The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.
I prefer airport style bathroom entry and exits .... there is no door, just a walkway that gives privacy to the entry so that you can't see inside from the hallway.
Takes up more space though
So’s your mom lol
Alri
That would be ideal. I've also seen a few with weirdly discrete foot pedals. I like that idea, although the ones I've encountered haven't exactly nailed the design.
I just use a paper towel to grab the handle (if there’s no foot pedal). What’s annoying is when there’s no trash can near the door to toss the paper towel while exiting.
Out of idle curiosity about your username, I'd like to ask.
Dune, cryptography, or both?
I'm a Dune fan and work in security, so I'd say both!
My place of work installed those foot pedals around COVID time, and they work just fine.
I've also seen the ones that have the pull handle, plus the little piece that extends upwards so you can use your forearm to pull the door open.
Haven't seen that.
You can also push a door open with a foot as you take a step forward.
It's trickier than using an elbow, as it involves the balancing act of putting your weight on the door, which will give way, before allowing your foot to actually land. Do it wrong or with a door that's much lighter than you thought, and you fall over as you deliberately shift your weight off the one foot you're still standing on :D
I initially started doing it to push open doors while holding stuff with my hands, but now I kinda just walk into doors and open them with a foot as I do.
We're talking of pulling doors open. Unless I misread, I believe you're describing a method of pushing a door outwards.
I am.
How would a pedal that opens a door towards you work? Unless it's like a handle for your foot?
Yeah it kind of is... The ones on the bathroom doors at my work place are a little metal plate at the bottom of the door with a grip on it, and a kind of.. lip? I don't know how else to describe it. You can probably find photos if you're that interested.
But yeah, you kind of have to pause for a split second and brace, then you use your foot on the grip to pull the door open. After one or two times, it's second nature now.
That might not be up to fire standards demanding doors in the hallway to be opened to the inside of the room.
Is that a thing?
Feels like something door closers make irrelevant.
You'd think fire code would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.
If you have a bunch of people wanting to go through a door, you do not want them the be pull.
Even while orderly, requiring a crowd to step back to provide the space for the doors to open is not ideal.
I imagine it's because bathrooms have no point of egress, so the ability to block the bathroom door from the outside (intentionally or not) needs to be avoided at all costs for safety reasons.
Makes sense.
yay critical thinking!
Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).
After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.
If they opened outward, they'd block egress in the hallway, which would have equal or more traffick than any single room connected and will enough people in the hallway, you wouldn't be able to open the door to escape at all.
For small spaces with limited occupancy, you can get away with opening into the room. Main exits are push, unless it opens onto a public sidewalk and not a stoop or something.
I'm pretty sure there's regulations against that, so you're not pushing a door into a random passer by as you're exiting the bathroom.
The foot hook handle thing is my preferred method.
I'm fond of the paper method. Paper barrier to protect me from the gross handle.
Or foot
I think the door opening into a main area is not ideal. Like a restaurant with somebody carrying food having to swerve a bathroom door that opened unexpectedly.