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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoIs that a thing?
Feels like something door closer makes irrelevant.
You’d think fire could would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.
Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).
After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.
If they opened outward, they’d block egress in the hallway, which would have equal or more traffick than any single room connected and will enough people in the hallway, you wouldn’t be able to open the door to escape at all.
For small spaces with limited occupancy, you can get away with opening into the room. Main exits are push, unless it opens onto a public sidewalk and not a stoop or something.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I imagine it’s because bathrooms have no point of egress, so the ability to block the bathroom door from the outside (intentionally or not) needs to be avoided at all costs.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Makes sense.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
yay critical thinking!