Mick F wrote: ↑19 Jan 2022, 7:48pm
Doors ................
Toilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
The same reason almost all doors into rooms and buildings open inwards,external doors open inward so a wind can't get a hold of them and cause damage either to people or the door itself,it's then carried through internally,push to enter pull to exit.Corridors are a classic example,doors opening onto a corridor are potentially unsafe as someone could be passing carrying food hot drinks,etc when someone else is exiting a room off the corridor.
Obviously there are exceptions of course,there always is.
Why can't loo doors open both ways with a push?
The Queens Head up the road from here has recently been modernised. New loos for one thing.
Leave the bar area and push the door into the corridor leading to the ladies and gents.
The gents door is pulled to open, and after doing your business and washing and drying hands, you can push the door open to get out ....................... but to enter the bar area, you have to get hold of the handle to open the door.
Goodness knows who the unwashed - man or woman - last held that handle!
I can understand to a degree, because a pushed-open door could hit someone in the bar drinking!
I can't quite understand the situation from your description,but I was giving a logical answer to the question you posted and as I posted,there are exceptions to the rule.
I understand about dirty pull handles on exit doors from toilets.
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If you are really bothered about touching the door handle when you exit the toilet you can get "Contactless door openers" AKA a fancy hook you can put on your keyring. I would be wary of using toilet paper either for drying hands or opening doors at that runs the risk of contaminating your hands with germs that you, or a previous person, may have spread onto the toilet paper when getting more sheets to continue using it for its intended purpose earlier.
Is there much (any at all?) evidence of covid spread via use of hand dryers in toilets?
Former member of the Cult of the Polystyrene Head Carbuncle.
PS: I'm very lucky to have a colony of rooks and jackdaws outside my study window. Fascinating behaviour. And they see off the red kites when required.
Back on topic, what made me laugh today was seeing yet another YouTwitFace ad for a certain brand of waterproof sock. Clearly it has been noted that I visited their site last week; they don't cater for my size, but the not-quite-well-enough-targeted ads still soldier on in all their synthetic optimism.
