Can’t they just open the other way? I hate using public bathrooms because getting into a regular sized stall as a 6 foot sumn germaphobe is like playing Operation. If the dang door just opened the other way I’d have so much more space. So why have I NEVER found it in the wild? Are bathroom engineers just aspiring supervillains? I don’t understand!!
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Outward swinging doors can block the aisle, hit other people. Inward swinging doors don’t do that.
Also, I imagine pretty much everyone has had the unfortunate experience of being in a stall with a busted latch. I agree that’s very annoying because you have to press against the door to maintain any privacy. But the only reason you are able to do that is because the door swings inward.
So someone can’t trap you in there
Fire codes, probably. Imagine outward stall doors blocking your exit.
So that you don’t hit a passerby with the door when you open it. It saves on space too, which makes the bathroom easier to design.
The majority of doors tend to open inward, not just bathroom stalls.
So you ban block the door from fully opening when you’re using the shitter.
Don’t be so scared of germs. And for safety reasons which are more important than your impractical feelings on germs.
So you don’t fling the door open and whack somebody with it
If someone opens the door while you’re shitting, it’s easier to block the door from opening and seeing you. If they pull the door they’re pulling your only covering away from you entirely exposing you.
Stop being a germaphobe.
Because then you can’t get blocked in.
For the handicap people
Because they don’t have windows.
Use the handicapped-accessible stall. If you physically struggle to use a standard one, then by definition, you have a physical limitation — aka, a handicap. That’s literally what the accessible stall is for.
Fire code probably. Its also why most doors tend to open inward rather than outward……just in case theres a bunch of people in a hallway that are trying to find and exit and it would be a bad idea to blind side them with a randomly opening door of someone else trying to escape.
If you’re sitting on the toilette & someone tries to open the stall door, it’s much easier to keep someone from pushing the door open as it is to prevent them from yanking it open!
I prefer a bathroom stalls to have those old school western saloon style doors that swing both ways so that I can have my pick of inward or outward.
lol people who are 6′ looove to mention it even if it’s completely irrelevant. Do you mean that you’re six feet wide perhaps? Cuz then I can understand that would make things difficult.
So you can quickly extend a leg to block an intruder when the latch doesn’t work properly.
Otherwise you are left hearing an apology from someone that just made eye contact with you on the shitter.
How it works for someone to not know you were in there yet make eye contact with you is a mystery.
I can’t imagine a universe where an outward swinging crapper door would be preferable.
Size of bathrooms. If every door opened out, they would need to figure that into the bathroom design.
Safety. If it opened out, someone could block you in.
Privacy. If a lock is busted, you could stop the door from opening in vs someone pulling it open. Less likely seeing you rubbing one out to the latest Sears catalog.
What are doors? My ship has no doors and no ladders. Just hallways and stairs.
Outward can hit people and be in the way
Are you obese? I’m also tall and have no issues.
So people can kick them in. Why else?
For safety. The person in there with you can get too excited (or panic) and shove you or kick too hard breaking the latch and hitting someone with the door 😜. Seriously, its for the safety of not hitting someone with the door.
Because the person on the inside knows when the door is opening. If it opened out, a person walking by, who didn’t know when it was going to open, would get smacked in the face.
There are lots of rules about which doors open which way. I had to learn them all in school for architectural drawing class. They all had to be the right way round on exam papers. Bedroom doors are the most complicated. So many parameters to determine which way they’re supposed to open. All completely ignored in the real world.
You’d quickly backpedal this entire idea if you’re walking through a public bathroom and a stall door flies out full-force and smacks you in the face. I honestly don’t understand how that isn’t obvious.
You can’t stop dickheads or rude jerks from literally kicking the doors open if they swung out. It’s just impossible to control and will hospitalize people like infants or wheelchair users when it happens. You can talk about “just be nice” or “make it against the rules” or whatever but if a product’s design leaves a way for people to do something wrong, they will DO IT WRONG.
You can, on the other hand, fully control how you navigate a controlled inward swing into a known empty space.
The question should be Why have doors at all? All they really do is impede quick entry/exit, prevent rapid dissemination of bowel gasses and needlessly take up space that could be used for additional commodes. Musk needs to get on that!
Just remodeled our bathrooms at work. Open inwards and its a tiny space. Huge paper despenser so you have to sit kind of side saddle and they are about 4 inches off the floor so as you’re yanking paper out it touches the ground. Somehow found a supply for single ply paper 2/3rds as wide as normal as well.
You use public bathrooms to do #2 ? eww
I don’t mind the inward swinging doors. I mind that there’s often not enough space inside the stalls to shut the door without brushing up against the filthy toilet.
Try it in airports with a suitcase! 😀
People would injure others swing the door outwards.
At my job they open outward
At my office the doors open inwards because they are made to open when unlatched and you can’t have the doors of vacant stalls all flung outwards
Fire codes prevent any door from blocking an escape route when open.