I discovered a solution for those autoflush toilets that seem to go off repeatedly while you are trying to do your business.
Take a piece of toilet paper and place it over the sensor. The sensor can’t read any changes in state, so won’t trigger. Then you can happily complete your business in whatever manner you see fit, including shifting around to wipe and whatnot, without the surprise splash effect. When through and after you stand up for the final time, you then remove the piece of toilet paper from the sensor and allow it to resume.
(This little insight was arrived at after encountering a movie theater toilet that was going off every 30 seconds, unless the stall door was shifted mostly closed to block the sensor path. With that observation, an idea was born.)
I appreciate your solution and plan to implement it. One bathroom at work has toilets with premature flushuation problems and now I won’t have to avoid it, thanks!
I’ve been doing this for many years. It works well in the stalls.
For the urinals that think it’s a good idea to flush as I walk up (I disagree), I put my hand in front of the sensor but stand away, let it flush (and spray water where I want to be), then keep my hand there as I pee.
Smart toilets are trying to be too smart. I don’t want that water sprayed near me. Is that crazy??
Hooray, I used your tip today! Ripped the tissue off the spy eye and was out the door before aerosolized toilet water could get all over me. Wait until I tell my friend who gives me static about using the paper towel to open the door about this new obsession.
Excellent suggestion. I’m not usually annoyed while on the throne - but when I go into a public toilet, I usually like to give the seat a wipe with a few squares of toilet paper to clean up any splashes left behind.
Then as soon as I’m done wiping the seat and am ready to sit down, the damn thing flushes again - re-splashing the seat :smack:.
In the men’s room at work we have one that is hyper and two that are normal. The hyperactive one is the handicap stall. I realized the cause - the valve (and thus the sensor) sits a lot higher up, so leaning forward causes a larger distance betwixt sensor and human.