Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Just say NO to hand dryers


When it comes to women's bathrooms, I do know more than my boss, who is a man. Interestingly I rarely disagree with him about facilities - because he's usually right and I'm usually wrong. But when it comes to women's bathrooms - I am the expert.

He is excited about the hand dryers he put in the women's bathroom in the new Gleason Library. I know, it's open 24 hours and accumulation of paper trash will be a problem, BUT....

What is wrong with hand dryers?:



  1. It takes way longer to dry your hands using a dryer than it does using paper towels, even those cheap, non-absorbent brown towels that we use.

  2. If and when your hands are ever do DRY, they are also chapped from the heat.

  3. Need to brush your teeth? Need to splash water on your face after a plane ride? How does the hand dryer work with that?? Not. No amount of toilet paper, folded or crumpled, can dry you.


Just say NO to hand dryers in women's bathrooms.

1 comment:

Bathroom Blogfest said...

Hi Katie,

I share your dislike of electric hand dryers. The only one I found that I like is the Excel XLerator brand. I wrote a post last year at http://www.purplewren.com/2006/10/improved_hand_d.html

My hands actually felt better.

Sandy