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.
Mildly so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is this at a hotel? Just hang a “do not disturb” tag on the pipe to keep the water running!
At work.
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.
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.
Ha, looks like BWH.
Big Water Hubris
Clean the sensor lens
