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Automatic toilet flushers.
2007-02-20, 1:57 PM #1
Anyone have these machines attached to toilets in bathrooms around their campus? They are, obviously, programmed to flush by using sensors, but the thing is, they don't seem to work as often as they should. I know the idea of letting a machine do your flushing work and how it prevents toilet failures from manual flushes, but I do, even though I'm aware that no machine is perfect, wish these things could have less flaws.

There are also automatic sink controls to accompany the toilets in my campus facilities. It appears they work quite, but it could be that hands are easier to detect than ...

Anyway, I assume these automatic toilet flushing sytems are common on campus restrooms. Have they served you well?
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2007-02-20, 1:59 PM #2
...'prevents toilet failures'? You make it sound like the space shuttle or something. :p
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2007-02-20, 2:02 PM #3
We have them, but the sensors are in the wall behind one's back. They work fine.
2007-02-20, 2:20 PM #4
Jeez. Do you have automatic ***-wipers as well?
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2007-02-20, 2:20 PM #5
Yes and they are so scary! They flush themselves like the second you are done peeing, like before you even step away from it, it scares me.
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2007-02-20, 2:22 PM #6
Originally posted by Fardreamer:
Jeez. Do you have automatic ***-wipers as well?


Bidet
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2007-02-20, 2:26 PM #7
We don't have them on campus but I know many places near by who do.
I've never seen any problem with them.

What I have seen are places with automatic sinks where you can't see the sensor.
You end up just waving your hands all around the thing til it comes on.
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2007-02-20, 2:27 PM #8
We have both the infrared flushers and faucets at school. Fancy fancy.
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2007-02-20, 2:38 PM #9
Originally posted by Fardreamer:
Jeez. Do you have automatic ***-wipers as well?


What. You never seen an automatic flushing toilet?
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2007-02-20, 2:39 PM #10
They have those things in all the movie theaters in my area. They're neat, unless you're drunk. Then they kind of annoy me.
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2007-02-20, 2:52 PM #11
toilets that flush without having to touch a handle, faucets that you dont have to touch, soap dispensers that are motion sensative, hand blow dryers that you dont have to touch.....then the skankiest door handle has to be touched ot get out of the bathroom. whats the deal with that?
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2007-02-20, 3:43 PM #12
The movie theaters here don't have doors.
2007-02-20, 4:40 PM #13
I don't have them on campus, but they are at the Home Depot I work at, and some of the newer movie theatres in the area have them too.
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2007-02-20, 5:20 PM #14
My college campus has those automatic flushing toilets and urinals. Some of the sinks have them too. It's rather nice not having to use your foot to flush the damn thing when you're done. :P

However, it's kinda annoying how when you get up after taking a dump, the thing flushes before you have the chance to wipe your butt :mad:. Talk about a waste of water! :argh: After I wipe me butt, I have to place me hand in front of the sensor for a few seconds and then pull away so the toilet can flush the toilet paper.
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2007-02-20, 5:44 PM #15
Dude, they have automatic ***-wipers but its actually water that shoots and cleans. I can't find the link but they do exist.
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2007-02-20, 5:51 PM #16
...why have you never heard of a bidet?
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2007-02-20, 6:04 PM #17
I already posted a Bidet.
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2007-02-20, 6:07 PM #18
The problem with automatic toilets is that they make it rather difficult to perform a courtesy flush.
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2007-02-20, 6:40 PM #19
Most of the automatic ones here have a manual button too.
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2007-02-20, 6:49 PM #20
Most urinals that I've seen have sensors on them. It would seriously be rare to find one that isn't made that way.

As for actual toilets... well, I wouldn't know. I tend to avoid that part of public restrooms intentionally.
2007-02-20, 7:27 PM #21
Originally posted by Spook:
I already posted a Bidet.

Look at the post above mine.
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2007-02-20, 7:28 PM #22
The recent trend of putting automatic fixtures in public bathrooms is annoying as hell to me. I can understand the health reasons for it, but I hate waiting for the toilet to decide when it will flush (though some have a button to flush it in addition to the IR sensor). I've yet to see a motion-activated faucet that sprays water for any longer than four seconds, at which point I find that I usually have to move my hands OUT of the sink and then back in to trigger it again...so in the end it takes several cycles of this to adequately wet, lather, and rinse my hands. The bathrooms of my university's chem building has the push-style knobs, which like the motion activated ones, sprays 4-5 seconds worth of water.
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2007-02-20, 7:49 PM #23
I went to some fancy bathroom one time and mostly everything was automatic. They had temperature controlled seats (you had to press the button Warm or Cold), this towel holder w/ disinfectant wipes (wave your hand across the bottom and boom a wipe comes out), even the doors (bathroom front door and the stall doors), toilets (plus the automatic bidet installed) , urinal, sink, soap, hand dryer, and complementary mints you get by swiping the bottom of this mint holder (they are sealed in plastic bags).

Then during the drive back home I go to a Shell and use their bathroom and get more disgusted than usual.
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2007-02-20, 7:51 PM #24
Every bathroom at my (high) school is automatic (toilets and sinks)

And some faucets are warm and some are cold.
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2007-02-20, 7:52 PM #25
Originally posted by Exothermic:
The recent trend of putting automatic fixtures in public bathrooms is annoying as hell to me. I can understand the health reasons for it, but I hate waiting for the toilet to decide when it will flush (though some have a button to flush it in addition to the IR sensor). I've yet to see a motion-activated faucet that sprays water for any longer than four seconds, at which point I find that I usually have to move my hands OUT of the sink and then back in to trigger it again...so in the end it takes several cycles of this to adequately wet, lather, and rinse my hands. The bathrooms of my university's chem building has the push-style knobs, which like the motion activated ones, sprays 4-5 seconds worth of water.


The sensor needs to be pointed down into the sink a little bit instead of straight out at the level of the counter.
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2007-02-20, 8:07 PM #26
My college campus has sensor sinks and such. I spent about five incredibly amused minutes once when I discovered that if I wore my gray camo jacket they couldn't see me, but if I opened it then closed it then opened and closed it I could make the sink stay on or off if I stood in front of it. So perfect.
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2007-02-20, 8:27 PM #27
no automatic stuff in our bathrooms, we're an old school, but we boast of two of the few existing female urinals. I have yet to see anyone use them, but they're there.
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2007-02-20, 9:59 PM #28
I HATE when you're standing there taking a piss, when the sensor on the urinal decides you're no longer there and you get a nice shower... :psyduck:
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2007-02-20, 10:19 PM #29
I want a bidet, I hear they're really nice
2007-02-21, 12:35 AM #30
urinals are really ****in gross.
2007-02-21, 12:45 AM #31
They aren't any grosser than toilets. At least urinals don't have a (high) chance of having a dookie floating in them.
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2007-02-21, 8:41 AM #32
I only use one toilet, and it's in my house. It doesn't have an automatic flusher or a bidet.

But I like it anyway.
2007-02-21, 1:52 PM #33
Most of the ones I've encountered have been broken, so you manually have to push the little button. I also have a hard time getting those automatic sinks to detect me. New fangled technology...
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2007-02-21, 2:38 PM #34
I hate the automatic flushers, and the sinks and ESPECIALLY the dryers.

Im sorry but i want to be able to use as much water or hot air as I want, when I want.

OH AND TP! Good God people stop locking up all the TP!
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2007-02-22, 12:18 AM #35
Originally posted by Isuwen:
The problem with automatic toilets is that they make it rather difficult to perform a courtesy flush.


Hmm. This might be the problem. I guess it's annoying to do a courtesy flush with the auto-toilets around my campus because it requires the person to bother spending the time/effort in setting off the thing to flush again.
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2007-02-22, 1:16 AM #36
I also think another point to all the 'automatic-ness' in the toilet room are to help prevent the spreading of germs.
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2007-02-22, 8:44 AM #37
Originally posted by sugarless5:
no automatic stuff in our bathrooms, we're an old school, but we boast of two of the few existing female urinals. I have yet to see anyone use them, but they're there.

Are they like regular urinals, or somehow shaped differently to be more female-compatible?

Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
I only use one toilet, and it's in my house. It doesn't have an automatic flusher or a bidet.

But I like it anyway.

****break.

Originally posted by Z@NARDI:
I also think another point to all the 'automatic-ness' in the toilet room are to help prevent the spreading of germs.

I always thought that was pretty much the only reason (I guess some might say convenience, but as most have said in this thread, most of the stuff isn't very convenient.

Originally posted by DesertPike:
toilets that flush without having to touch a handle, faucets that you dont have to touch, soap dispensers that are motion sensative, hand blow dryers that you dont have to touch.....then the skankiest door handle has to be touched ot get out of the bathroom. whats the deal with that?

I'm glad somebody else sees this. I have seen a couple bathrooms though (movie theatres and hospitals specifically) that use curved walls instead of doors.
2007-02-22, 9:02 AM #38
If they would actually make the sinks dispense water whenever my hands are anywhere near it, it would be fine. I just hate the short little bursts. And if they make bathroom doors that open outward just by pushing (no handle), then you can always back out of with without having to touch anything.
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2007-02-22, 9:06 AM #39
Originally posted by Aglar:
I always thought that was pretty much the only reason (I guess some might say convenience, but as most have said in this thread, most of the stuff isn't very convenient.


It's also for water conservation and vandalism prevention. Its harder to stop up a sink drain and leave it running if you have to stand there and wave your hand at it the whole time.
2007-02-22, 9:24 AM #40
Also, I bet its harder to break an automatic toilet rather than one that requires manual operation. With the typical toilet, people probably use the flushing handle differently. Some probably slam the handle to flush while others just tap it. Most likely there are those who press the handle repeatedly while other hold it down for longer periods of time. Same goes for those metal button toilets. After such abuse from all different types of manual usage, the toilets probably need regualr maintenance.

Now with a machine doing the flush, the flushing operation is nice and controled. I'm guessing its the same flush everytime, regardless of who took the crap. While I'm no toilet expert, I'm thinking auto-toilets require much less maintenance.
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