i’m a girl i don’t get this

[u/uhohelle]

like why wouldn’t this work. is it cause of the urinals so close to the sink?? or like.. cause idk

[u/NebulaNomadX1]

Costs

Pushing the three stalls on one side of this design together so that they're next to each, will eliminate two stall walls. Based on this pricing, you would be looking at $450 savings for just the wall panels.

Edit: Hi again, sorry for the edit, and sorry if I’m being annoying for making this. I apologize if I am being annoying, obnoxious, or ruining the fun for the past couple of days when I answer, as some replies on here have been saying. I believe this subreddit is an amazing place built on an interesting idea, and following some tragic events in my life in recent years, I have been very fortunate to meet a bunch of wonderful people, questions, and great answerers in this community. To hear many attacks and allegations directed at me, especially ones I have constantly denied, to the point I possibly made this place worse on accident, is personally saddening to me. You have every right to hate on me.

[u/CheesecakePretend553 → u/NebulaNomadX1]

This and I'm no plumber, but I'd imagine this would unnecessarily complicate the piping setup.

Edit: My notifications are full of so many conflicting answers lmao

[u/SafetyJosh4life → u/CheesecakePretend553]

Ex plumber here, I’ll make it short and simplified.

Urinals are very messy in the pipes. Uric acid forms piss stones that clog the lines up, that’s why many urinals flush poorly, there isn’t much room for the liquid to flow through and the build up creates resistance.

Adding solid waste to the mix will speed up the rate that this happens, theoretically the solid matter and extra water would help clear up the pipes, but reality shows that it accelerates the problem and causes clogged sanitary pipes that are harder to clear out.

Installing it this way would limit what hardware you can effectively use, not every wall bracket configuration would be usable in the photo, and you would have a hard time piping wall mount urinals with floor mounted toilets without creating a S trap and making the whole bathroom a sanitation violation, but there are ways to effectively do this and it’s not necessary more expensive, but it would take more skills labor to do it well.

But at the end of the day it’s a worse product that is slightly more convenient for the user but worse for the customer. You’re better off just installing nothing but toilets at that point and calling it a day.

[u/Joker-Smurf → u/SafetyJosh4life]

Not a plumber, but my father is (was before retirement).

I have a little tale for you, one that I think you as an ex-plumber would appreciate.

One day my dad is called in to take a look at the urinal at the local pub. It keeps blocking up every single Saturday night, though it seems to slowly clear by Sunday afternoon.

He puts the camera down the pipe and sees a massive blockage down the end. The machine is not going to be able to clear this one (the machine for the uninitiated is basically a pressure washer).

So he locates the blockage from the camera head and digs a hole down to inspect the pipe. As he gets closer to the pipe the smell of 10 years of stale piss begins to assault his senses and when he unearths the problem it becomes abundantly clear what the problem was.

10 years prior when the previous plumber did some work on the site he never terminated the urinal into the sewer line. There was a 1' gap between the closed sewer pipe and the open end of the urinal.

For 10 years all of the piss from the drunken patrons was filtering directly into the dirt of the car park.

[u/ryntak → u/Joker-Smurf]

Dear god.

[u/Chaotic_Order → u/SafetyJosh4life]

and here I was, a lay-man thinking...

"Someone's gonna shit in the urinals".

[u/Optimetrist → u/SafetyJosh4life]

why dont we use piss walls? there must be way to solve the smell and all