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Hands-free door locks for bathrooms?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,242 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    listermint wrote: »
    No offense Eric. Stupid idea.

    No one wants the door opening when sitting on the bog.

    bathrooms at a camp site, assuming multiple stalls in the bathroom and OP means the common door in which case there should be 2 meters fore and aft of the door for the PIR to only be activated within.

    for the individual stalls, hang the doors at a slight angle to let the doors stay naturally opened when unlocked and people can just use a piece of toilet roll to turn the lock on the back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    listermint wrote: »
    No offense Eric. Stupid idea.

    No one wants the door opening when sitting on the bog.

    Ignoring that I doubt anyone wants to drop a grand on a bog door lock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,802 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    GinSoaked wrote: »
    Ignoring that I doubt anyone wants to drop a grand on a bog door lock.

    Never know. Some folks are... Flush...


  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,855 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭65535


    listermint wrote: »
    The dirt your afraid of is from people not washing their hands. You.. and your not washing hands buddies.

    If everyone washed their hands then the tap and by extension door handle would be clean.

    Yes. You are the problem. Weird that you can't see that.

    I'd go out on a limb and say seat pissing isn't something you look down on considering your not touching anything...

    Typical boards having to point out how manky people are


    Indeed - how manky people are indeed.
    I am not the problem here, I go in without touching anything - leave without touching anything - I neither add nor subtract from the germs there, I only go there out of necessity same as if I had to stop on the side of the road.

    Keep your germs to yourself !
    I don't want germs from door handles or taps (as the OP requested information on)

    I have alcohol gel in my car to clean my hands thank you very much.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,802 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    65535 wrote: »
    Indeed - how manky people are indeed.
    I am not the problem here, I go in without touching anything - leave without touching anything - I neither add nor subtract from the germs there, I only go there out of necessity same as if I had to stop on the side of the road.

    Keep your germs to yourself !
    I don't want germs from door handles or taps (as the OP requested information on)

    I have alcohol gel in my car to clean my hands thank you very much.

    None of this is possible.

    And you definitely piss on the seat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,394 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    whatever about the stalls, better to just get rid of the outer door and have a screen that people can walk around, plenty of campsites we've been on with this arrangement (or even with the stalls opening straight to the outside with a canopy over them and outside sinks). As for the stalls themselves, I mean you should be considering the handles/locks as "dirty" one way or the other unless there are sinks inside the stalls (even then...)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,522 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    65535 wrote: »
    I have alcohol gel in my car to clean my hands thank you very much.
    Alcohol gel doesn't clean, it disinfects. Disinfecting only works on clean hands. You have to wash them first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭65535


    Lumen wrote: »
    Alcohol gel doesn't clean, it disinfects. Disinfecting only works on clean hands. You have to wash them first.


    Before I use the facilities my hands and indeed my body is clean.
    So I use the gel to disinfect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,522 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    65535 wrote: »
    Before I use the facilities my hands and indeed my body is clean.
    So I use the gel to disinfect.

    How can you clean your hands without washing them? Do you wear surgical gloves all day?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,394 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Lumen wrote: »
    How can you clean your hands without washing them? Do you wear surgical gloves all day?

    maybe he means in a spiritual sense, "my hands and my body are clean, and my soul is pure"

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭65535


    Lumen wrote: »
    How can you clean your hands without washing them? Do you wear surgical gloves all day?


    I wash my hands of course in places that I can trust to be clean, at home is one.
    I would not use the facilities of any diner or road stop only if I had to and then I would get in and out quickly without touching anything there.

    Again this is precisely why the OP has requested information.



    If ye want to visit facilities and get germs then that's your own lookout, for me it's not something I do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mr chips


    Some quality replies and interesting discussion there folks, thank you! :pac: I reckon that 3-D printed yolk might do the job - it looks like it could be fixed to the kind of handles that are fitted to a wheelchair accessible bathroom, where it's pushed up to lock from the inside and pushed down to unlock and open. I could just go for those in all bathrooms.

    Just to clear up some confusion - these are individual bathrooms, as opposed to having sets of toilet stalls & sets of shower stalls. There is no separate ladies or gents - each bathroom is self-contained with a toilet, wash-hand basin and shower (I did a fair bit of research as to which would be preferable, this or going for stalls and this was the more popular option by some margin - plus it's only a small campsite so this was actually the most efficient way of using the space). The taps for the sinks are the push-button kind which provide a stream of water for 20 seconds or so, meaning no need to touch them again to turn them off once you've finished washing your hands. There is only one door for each bathroom which opens to the outside*, so this has to be lockable by the user.

    *The walkway immediately outside the bathrooms is screened so as to prevent any direct view into the bathrooms should anyone forget to lock the door!

    PS I'm thinking of putting this up on every door ...
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,394 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    sounds a nice arrangement, though personally I'd install a few that are just loos as people use the loo a lot more often than they shower, and you'll have times of the day when all the showers are in use and then no-one can take a pee.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mr chips


    Cheers! I was a bit back & forth alright about what you're saying re occupancy duration in terms of someone using a shower preventing someone else using that bathroom's toilet. But there are eleven bathrooms in total, two with wheelchair accessibility, so I'm reasonably confident that nobody will be taken short for too long, at least in my first season or two. I'm only going to have seven glamping units and - given that there will probably be a need for greater physical distancing for some time to come - probably only a dozen spots for pitching your own tent instead of the 20 or so I had been planning on, so it definitely won't be overcrowded in the short/medium term. If customer numbers increase then I probably will look at the possibility of adding a couple of extra loos alright, but I've only one enclosed space left to put them in and I was toying with the idea of turning that into a drying room, i.e. a place where you can hang your biking/outdoor gear overnight and have it nice & dry for the next morning. That entire space is only about 8' x 4', so realistically it's either two extra loos or one extra loo and a very small drying room.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,394 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    sounds really nice, and the drying room is a good idea - make sure to have table-tennis too, no campsite is complete without it!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mr chips


    No can do, sadly. There were so many hoops to jump through in order to get planning permission through for the project in the first place (I'm in NI), and one of the arbitrary restrictions was that the only permanent structures permitted onsite were the facilities blocks, i.e. bathrooms, small campsite kitchen, reception. Having a games room or similar is the sort of thing that I could probably get through in the future subject to an additional application, but at the time I had to just make sure I got the go-ahead at all.

    But I do have a fire circle to sit around, fruit trees where you can pick your own cherries etc in season and outdoor cooking stations and a stream to fish in. Other than that, how about a game of quoits or outdoor Connect 4?!! :pac::pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,394 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    mr chips wrote: »
    Other than that, how about a game of quoits or outdoor Connect 4?!! :pac::pac::pac:

    who needs structures?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mr chips


    I'd be bankrupted with replacing all the ping pong balls disappearing on a blowy day! :eek:
    Joking aside, something like that might be an option when I've earned a bit of dough to pay for it, so thanks for the tip. Believe it or not, thanks to the planners I'm not allowed a children's playground with swings, seesaws etc so for the time being it'll have to be smaller games dotted around the place. That said, this is a bit of a micro campsite - there's only parking for about 26-27 cars and before the pandemic I was looking at setting the maximum occupancy for e.g. a bank holiday weekend at around 90, rather than accepting bookings to fill every single possible place, so it's never going to have all the facilities that bigger places do.


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