This and most washroom faucets have too little space for washing hands. The space from the spout to the back and bottom of the sink doesn’t allow for rinsing whilst scrubbing without touching the sink. Infuriating.
They’re not actually intended for washing your hands but rather for ticking the ‘customer hand-washing facility available’ box and providing jobs for interior designers nephews.
Mildly so.
You should be scrubbing before you rinse, not both together.
Okay, you tell me how to wash my hands…
I wet my hands, get soap, scrub, and continue to scrub as I rinse. Not going to stand there for 2 minutes for all the soap to rinse off on its own. Your way is actually worse because you end up having to maneuver your hands a lot more to get all the soap off to the wrists. And good luck trying to wash your forearms.
It shouldn’t take 2 minutes to rinse soap off of your hands. It takes me like 5 second.
How much soap are you using?
at the office we have the ones you have to push down–and hold for the water to run. i’ve encountered them elsewhere and you get 10-20 seconds before the water shuts off… ours doesn’t. by the time you get your hand down to the water, it’s shut off.
What’s the problem? Just use your third hand to keep the button down
Or third leg ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Hold on, inventing psychic power
We had “sink bricks” to solve that problem, somebody was tired of those so they went to the hardware store and bought a couple bricks to hold the buttons down. Eventually the faucets were replaced with proper ones with normal valves.
LPT: For faucets like this (or if you just want running water to wash something) get a paper towel. Wet it under the water and then put it over the sensor.
Toilet paper also works but it’s messier.
Just use clean toilet paper off the roll damn
I have seen something like this a lot. Many more that work fine but but they certainly don’t seem to be at the five 9’s or two nines or maybe even one nine. maybe one nine.
five 9’s or two nines or maybe even one nine. maybe one nine.
This is the first time I hear this expression, what does it mean?
“Five Nines” typically refers to something that works 99.999% of the time, which still allows for 1 screw-up out of 100,000.
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I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.
It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.
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yes as dhork mentions its related to a concept of 6sigma which is an airline/telephony thing about things that must not fail. My little quip is suggesting they work like 90% of the time which is not great.
Finally learned what DFSS actually means rather than just a breakdown pf the fucking acronym lol
It means HubertManne had a stroke while typing.
So that you can wash your wrists/arms?
Lol
Ah! I see so it was user error all along. I was supposed to wash my elbows! /s
You don’t wash your elbows?
Only on odd days.
I usually just put some soap over the sensor so it just stays on. Most of the time it works.
You just need to loosen off the grub screw, which is now in a data center in Ireland.
Stick too long, make shorter
That’s what she said
It’s a pretty common problem, honestly.
Still mildly infuriating.
Yup. I definitely ding off points for it when I do my mental restroom reviews.
Perfect to get your long sleeves wet!
No, it works under the faucet. You’re just impatient because it didn’t turn on after 1ms, so you move your hand closer and it turns on so you think it’s nearsighted.
Incorrect. It detects motion. waving my hands under the spout doesn’t do anything no matter how long. Waving the hand 1.5 in further makes it work only while I shake my hands. It stops immediately after I love my hands. I need to have one hand further activating the sensor while I rinse the other then swap.
That is one hell of a gaslight.
This automatic faucet
that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on.I think they intend for you to wash not only the hands but up to the elbow as well
I hate the ones with such a short spigot that you can only wash the tips of your fingers.
Is this at a hotel? Just hang a “do not disturb” tag on the pipe to keep the water running!
At work.
How else could it work? Otherwise it will detect the water flowing and never switch off.
“How could this badly designed thing work if it wasn’t so badly designed?” Sometimes, if you can’t make a thing work, the solution is to use something else that does. And sometimes the solution is just to make it better, like directing the IR detection beams just to either side of the water stream.
