Callidonaut t1_itm3ybw wrote on October 24, 2022 at 5:31 PM

I've been saying it for decades, all they have to do is make the damned door open outwards, but nobody cares.

Also, bonus points: ten or twenty full-size sinks and exactly one hand dryer that takes forever to use. You know it makes sense. /s

annomandaris t1_itm6yok wrote on October 24, 2022 at 5:51 PM

They cant, because in most cases bathrooms are in hallways, and if the door went out, it would block the hallway in case of emergency. Long story short you cant open the bathroom doorway cause people are slamming it closed on you.

Callidonaut t1_itm7ivq wrote on October 24, 2022 at 5:55 PM

Fair point. There are places that solve the problem by just not having a door at all, and use an offset wall to block people from being able to see in, but I guess that couldn't be retrofitted to buildings that were designed to have a door that would act as a fire barrier.

tacknosaddle t1_itmijfl wrote on October 24, 2022 at 7:05 PM

Similar to how stairwell doors should open inward towards the stairwell to prevent a pileup from panic outside of it with the exception being the bottom where the floor has access to the outside which should open outward. You'll also never see revolving doors that either don't have regular doors next to them or are of a design that there is a breaking point which allows both sides of the revolving door to be pushed open in an emergency (that piece of code stems from the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston).