Pointlessly hot water
Most commercial buildings that I've been to make this schoolboy error.
Allow me to set the scene.
You've just done something in a public toilet that you'd rather forget. You're anxious to wash your hands, and put that part of your day behind you.
You get a hand full of hand-soap, and you switch on the hot water tap. You lather your hands, remove dirt from your fingernails, and by rinse-time the water you were intending to use is now hotter than the sun. What's the point?
A worthless solution offered to me on more than one occasion was to use the basin's plug and to mix with cold. Have these people ever looked at the state of the basins in public toilets? If I wanted to wash my hands in a sink of pubes, I'd rather they were at least my own. Thankyou very much.
Is it so hard to turn the damned boiler down a bit so that I don't see the skeletal structure of my hand after 0.53 seconds' exposure to it? Water from the hot water tap should not burn!
How has somebody not tried to sue for this yet? There've been more pointless claims in the past.
Allow me to set the scene.
You've just done something in a public toilet that you'd rather forget. You're anxious to wash your hands, and put that part of your day behind you.
You get a hand full of hand-soap, and you switch on the hot water tap. You lather your hands, remove dirt from your fingernails, and by rinse-time the water you were intending to use is now hotter than the sun. What's the point?
A worthless solution offered to me on more than one occasion was to use the basin's plug and to mix with cold. Have these people ever looked at the state of the basins in public toilets? If I wanted to wash my hands in a sink of pubes, I'd rather they were at least my own. Thankyou very much.
Is it so hard to turn the damned boiler down a bit so that I don't see the skeletal structure of my hand after 0.53 seconds' exposure to it? Water from the hot water tap should not burn!
How has somebody not tried to sue for this yet? There've been more pointless claims in the past.
Labels: commercial, hot, pointless, water
posted by Karl at
8:44 am
3 Comments:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, why don't we have mixer taps everywhere?? WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous, at 10:37 am
It would be fine if they just installed a fucking mixer tap!
They could heat the boiler as much as they need then. I can understand why they do it. They have a hot tank of limited size that has to last the day. By making it hot as the sun it will last longer because people will use less at a time. If they don't, they'll lose their hands.
But the only way for one to use such hot water though is to either plug like you say (no thanks) or cup your hands under the cold and full, then transfer to the hot for a half a second to result in desirably temperate water.
But I repeat; a mixer tap would solve all these problems. Bastards.
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Mr Dom, at 10:40 am
to clarify; I totally agree with the blog. I have taken it upon myself to provide a recycling service at work collecting metal, cardboard, and plastic in bins in teh kitchen. Every couple weeks we take it down to the Waitrose car park recycling facilities. After dumping it all there, we nip in to Waitrose and wash our hands in the lavvies where the water is like it came straight out of a volcanic pocket. It's ridiculous.
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Mr Dom, at 10:59 am
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