..it’s to do with hygiene

YOU may have noticed there’s a distinct difference between public toilets and the one in your own home.

It’s all to do with the seat with toilets in public bathrooms having a gap at the front so it is shaped like the letter u.

Many public toilet seats have gap at the front.
But the seat in your bathroom at home will have a seat which goes all the way around.

Puzzling out the reason why is enough to send you round the u-bend - but actually the answer is fairly straight forward.

It’s all down to hygiene as most public authorities in the US have specific plumbing codes.

The one in California says: “All water closet seats, except those within dwelling units, shall be either of the open front type or have an automatic seat cover dispenser.”

The move was first brought in in the American Standard National Plumbing Code in 1955 and then later in the Uniform Plumbing Codes in 1973.

The gap in the seat is meant to give the user a little breathing room to avoid touching the seat with your genitals and provide one less place where urine could splash.


The gap in the seat is also meant to make it easier for women to wipe, according to Lynne Simnick, the senior vice president of code development at the IAPMO – International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials.


The design allows “women to wipe the perineal area after using the toilet without contacting the seat.”

There might also be something in the fact the seats with the gap are cheaper to produce and less likely to get stolen.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10319495/bathroom-toilet-seats-gap-round-why/

A meaningful topic

Nice and very thoughtful!

Good one...but not in this we country. Some public toilet seats look like bathing buckets.

We don't have time to start studying the physical structure and ceramic carvings of ordinary toilet seat.... We have other pressing issues

Mood11:
We don't have time to start studying the physical structure and ceramic carvings of ordinary toilet seat.... We have other pressing issues

However, the physical structure also has an effect on hygiene - our health.

Which should be of concern to us.

Nigeria will get here when we are past the survival stage.

The gap in the seat is meant to give the user a little breathing room to avoid touching the seat with your genitals and provide one less place where urine could splash.

Before opening the thread this came to mind. I am really smart *insert bookworm emoji*.

Thanks, OP. Today I learned this piece of valuable information.