Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Designing for Women [was An article that might beofinterest to some of you

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

I'm sorry to say that I'm not up-to-date on commodes, but the should be 
commodious, especially in terms of strength and flushing capacity (like my 
face), but not institutional. Just not delicate (like this subject). I had 
hope that that women/men wiser than I would have posted by now, thus 
bringing me up-to-date.

As to "retirning rooms," especially at public facilities, it is interesting 
to note that in some parts of Europe (again, alas, I am out-of-date) have a 
tradition of restroom attendants who maintained them continuously and no 
doubt encouraged restraint of abuse. One was expected to tip, however (a 
pfenning or two, as I recall). This ensured a continuously-clean and cleaned 
facility.

Only the "oriental" toilets (in the Middle East and elsewhere), however, had 
water-faucets conveniently at hand (so to speak), if the facilities 
themselves were not always up-to-sniff.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Designing for Women [was An article that might 
beofinterest to some of you


> On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Wayne Tyson <landrest [at] cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Shared toilet facilities are a major example of this. (Studies have 
> > shown,
> > by the way, that co-ed facilities work best, as each sex tends to keep 
> > the
> > facilities cleaner than those separated by sex, apparently because one 
> > sex
> > knows that the opposite sex might be the next person to use them.
>
> I'm working on a historic theater proposal for renovation so this is good 
> information as well as the looking nice info. The original had "retiring 
> rooms" with leather chairs for men and white wicker for women.
>
> > My own surveys found that the better-designed, nice facilities suffered 
> > far
> > less vandalism than "hardened" institutional-type designs. One 
> > movie-house
> > restroom that was paneled in high-quality cedar, had fresh flowers, and
> > vintage catalog pages over the toilet, suffered ZERO vandalism, despite 
> > the
> > very high level of usage and the broadest demographic.
>
> We need to replace the toilets in our CH bathrooms. It's an issue that we 
> have the institutional kind with the split seat and the chrome pipes on 
> the back with no water tank. We don't have vandalism but we do have messes 
> and failure to flush.
>
> Does anyone know if the institutional type toilets are required?
>
>
>
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
>
>
>
>
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