Ever sat on a toilet seat on a restroom and wondered, “Why doesn’t this door go all the way down?” The reasons for the doors to not go down to the floor are several. Here, we have come up with all the possible reasons. Read to know why!
1. It makes cleaning easier
Mopping, hosing down, and even power-cleaning the floors become much easier. With open space for water to flow it makes much faster and efficient cleaning. If the partition walls went down to the floor, it wouldn’t be that easier.
2. If someone has an emergency and passes out, it won’t go unnoticed.
Imagine someone losing their consciousness in a fully obscured stall and lie there for a long time because no one can notice them. But, in a toilet stall, with its door not going all the way down, someone passing out and becoming incapacitated can be immediately noticed. Also, during an emergency, it is much easier to slip through the bottom to unlock the door or to pull that person out of the stall, saving precious time.
3. It stops people from inappropriate behavior
In part so that people are not provided with too much privacy. A bathroom stall that’s completely enclosed allows people to feel like they’re in private, making engaging in secret, often illegal behaviors (such as graffiti, drug use, or even sex) much more likely. Behaviors like this decrease when stalls are open at the bottom, as there’s a level of surveillance, and reminder that a public bathroom is still very much in a public place.
4. It saves the cost
One of the reasons why the stall doors are like this is the cost. A normal floor-to-ceiling door requires custom cutting and fitting, as well as more materials; whereas these stalls can be put in any kind of room, regardless of the flatness of the floor or the height or width of the room, cutting the cost by half. It just makes more financial sense to go for shorter, more versatile stalls.
5. It allows for better aeration
Walking into a fully enclosed stall after someone has just done it, is a truly gag-inducing experience. Walking into an open stall, by comparison, it’s immediately obvious why better aeration is preferable (arguably essential) for public restroom stalls. Open stalls have enough ventilation, which is required to ease the flow of air through the stalls and throughout the lavatory.
6. Allows one to realize the stall is occupied
Anyone entering the restroom should be able to easily determine the state of occupancy of stalls. With doors like these, one can look under to see if the stall is occupied without actually opening the door and violating one’s privacy. There won’t be any unnecessary banging on the door. This also prevents unnecessary queuing.
7. Someone can lend you a helping hand
If you haven’t run out of toilet paper in public stalls, thank your heavens because it can get pretty embarrassing. When you run out of toilet paper in these stalls, a friend or even a stranger can easily pass you one through the doors and can save your day. There’s no way this can be possible in a floor-to-ceiling stall.
8. It’s not an issue if you got trapped inside locking yourself
A stall door or lock can easily become jammed, trapping its occupant inside. However, with a stall gap, you can still escape by crawling underneath, if need be.
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