Jophiel wrote:
Well, no. If they removed a toilet then they did. If they added a stall into the existing space then they didn't.
You took up a stall in the design of your restroom that would otherwise have had a toilet. I've yet to see an existing functional restroom in any business that had extra floor space available to put another non-toilet stall. Have you? That would be "wasted space", and that means "wasted money". No one does this. You cram as many stalls into the restrooms as can fit. So no, if you are retrofitting an existing restroom, the only way to do this is to decrease the total number of usable toilets in that restroom by one. Again, unless the original design was so inefficient with floor space that it actually had an entire extra stalls worth of space that was not being used.
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If they designated space in a new room then they didn't.
They designated a stall which could have contained a toilet and chose not to put one there. No matter how you slice it, in order to make room for this you will have one fewer functional toilets in the restroom. I'm not sure how you can think otherwise.
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Especially since adding in the plumbing for an additional toilet is much more extensive than putting up a partition and a chair.
Granted. But that's worse IMO. The extra expense of running the pipes for a toilet in that stall is much cheaper to do when doing the initial build, when the floor is already opened up and you're already running plumbing than it will be when the women working there demand that they have a clean environment to do this, and you end up allocating a small empty office for this anyway, only now your restroom is one toilet shy, and you'll have to rip up the floors to fix the initial dumb design choice you made.
I honestly can't imagine anyone wanting to operate a breast pump in a public restroom. Removing the toilet from the stall still leaves you sitting in a stall in a public restroom. It's kind of an insulting "concession" to the women IMO. You fight to get a private space for breast pumping and they give you a space inside the restroom? Um...
Edited, Mar 7th 2017 5:25pm by gbaji