Omg first time i ve ever found a us toilet stall with no gap on either side of the door.
Usa bathroom stall gap.
Buzzfeed asks why bathroom stall doors in american public restrooms have such wide gaps around their doors allowing you to make eye contact with the occupants.
With a gap your toes can pass under the gap.
By having a gap at the bottom bathroom partitions are much easier to clean as is the whole restroom.
10 06 am 03 aug 2014.
Sure privacy is a problem when the american bathroom stalls come with so many gaps.
The bottom gap is called toe clearance.
To turn around your footrest has to be able to move.
A huge gap is not absolutely necessary but if there is no big gap the toilet stall has to be wider.
You can hose down or even powerwash a restroom that has partitions with gaps at the bottom because the water has somewhere to run even if there s not a drain in a given stall.
A lot of people believe this has to do with privacy but for the most part it s not really related to that.
You do so many things well.
Sometimes these stalls are so shoddily constructed that there is a gap at the edge of the door through which a toilet sitter and someone outside the stall can make eye contact.