There’s always Amazon.
So go there! http://www.homedepot.com/s/urinal?NCNI-5
The best restrooms have towels, a trash can by the sink and one by the door, and, ideally, a door that pushes out from the inside without need for a doorknob.
I still would want a towel for the door handle even if I believed blow dryers were sanitary, which I don’t.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/11/21/using-a-public-restroom-hand-dryer-you-may-be-spreading-bacteria-all-over-the-place/
Which is why there are paper towels all over the floor - people use them to open the doors and then throw their trash wherever. Apparently the cleanliness of the bathroom is immaterial once the germaphobes have left. :smack:
The small business I work at is in a very old building with old plumbing. When they remodeled they didn’t update the plumbing. We spent thousands of dollars having to call the plumbers out to unclog the pipes and they often pulled out paper towels as the culprit. So we put a cheap hand dryer in and removed the paper towels. We’ve had way less plumbing emergencies. So even though I hate the dryers, I can understand why they could be preferred.
As for the sanitary, Mythbusters did a show on this.
From the top of the pyramid, I can see the electric blowers making sense. No need for refills, picking up litter from the floor, or emptying a trash can. Though I bet those people making those decisions aren’t wiping their hands on their pants to finish drying them. They have paper or cloth towels to dry their hands.
This made me LOL, and I haven’t even finished my cup of coffee!
Well done, sir! 
No kidding. It’s also my pleasure to touch a toilet handle that has all the crap from the bottom of the shoe of the princess who just flushed it with her foot.:rolleyes:
Sorry 'bout that. Would you like some hand sanitizer?
Actually, my office has those auto-flush toilets. Which are nice, except women don’t do anything about it if the toilet doesn’t flush everything. It’s lovely to walk into a stall and see someone’s “leftovers”.
Yeah, it’s all kind of a no win situation. I’m torn between “treat public bathrooms as you do the one in your home” and “egad, what must these peoples’ own bathrooms look like” :smack:
Seriously, do they leave piss on their own toilet seat? Then why do it anywhere else?
Why would anyone possibly just throw their paper towel on the floor?
I blame it on the bathroom remodeler.
If the client insists on installing a coin-op feminine napkin machine, please push back. Ladies everywhere will thank you; we HATE those things. It’s so unfair to have to pay for those when the TP is free.
Tangentially, when we got our master bath remodelled our contractor told us a fun story about a previous client. She had a new bath tub installed, and complained that it leaked and the old tub never did so they screwed something up. They went out to check, caulked around the base. She called to complain that it still leaked. They went out and checked, couldn’t figure it out but tightened the fixtures anyway. She called to complain that it still leaked. So this time the GC himself went out to investigate. Tub looked fine. So he quizzed her about this leak. He asked her to fill up the tub and show him. So she turned on the water and they waited. When the water got close to the top (and still no leak) he asked her to turn off the water otherwise the tub would overflow. She said it wasn’t high enough to leak yet. Sure enough, the dumb ditz was overfilling the tub (beyond the overflow drain even) and complaining about a “leak” that was actually the water running over the top of the tub and all over the floor.
We have one of those spray bidets, and I don’t know how I lived without them. They are fantastic. Gets you nice and clean, reduces my TP use by 80%, plus (at least the spray hose type attachments to the toilet that you can buy for $50) is great for rinsing out the baby’s poopy diapers.
Don’t be ridiculous.
They have “people” who dry them for them.
That’s key to having a waterless washroom. The shit is composted underneath the toilets, so no sewage problems. No tap water, so no grey water problems, no bacteria blown about by dryers, and no paper towels littered about. Just do your business and use hand sanitizer. For the last few years, I’ve been using the waterless washroom at one the places at which I ski, and I’m impressed. Is it whiffy? Only slightly. The toilets are less odorous than a typical out-house. The urinals are more-so than flush urinals.
Plus that generally causes the toilet handle to fail faster. Meaning it’s harder to flush the toilet, so Princess just leaves her donation there for everyone to see, and deal with.
I swear, when I’m traveling I run into at least one unflushed toilet, both regular and auto flush. It’s hard to believe that there are that many people out there who don’t know how to flush a toilet, so I am left with - these people just don’t care what they leave behind for others to clean up.
I’ve come upon the holy grail of pubic washrooms – one that is always spotless. Ne shitteth vous pas. I’ve been using it a few times a month for about fifteen years, and it has always been as clean as a fresh winter morning. Where? The name of the place is on the sign. Follow the guide through the big doors across the street at the end of the walkway.
Man, every women’s restroom I go in that has a coin-op pad/tampon machine … has either a broken or empty (or broken and empty) coin-op pad/tampon machine.
And every women’s restroom I go in that does not have a coin-op pad/tampon machine … has absolutely no pads or tampons at all.
And for 99% of women’s restrooms I go in, it’ll be a miracle if they have a mini-trashcan in the stall that’s actually usable. Fun times!
This. I worked for a company that hired a programmer from India who must have thought America was full of disease and AIDS. Every time he used the toilet he cranked the paper towel handle about ten times to get a good length, and lined the toilet seat with it. Then he flushed them! It took a while before maintenance figured out was happening, then then had to put up signs DO NOT FLUSH PAPER TOWELS. The sign was cheaper than running wiring for air dryers.
And can we talk about the pubic hair shedders? I’m amazed at all of the hairs I’ve seen. I’ve never seen this in my own bathroom at home, so someone out there is going bald below the belt.
I hear all the time that they are broken but I’m the guy who fixes them at our office and its darn rare I get a call since they are such simple machines. And out lady custodians keep them well stocked. The ladies even bring in hand cream and scented soaps and leave them out for each other.