To think dyson hand driers are vile...

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I am surely not the only person to find the splattering of water drops that have bounced round the inside of the drier, up into my face, (see the grubby wet puddle in the bottom of the drier), abhorrent?

I love my dyson vacuum, but can't see why anyone thinks the hand driers are nice.

YY to wrinkly skin effect! Horrifying. I like the idea of a full size one to dry off after a shower, but dread to think what my body would look like in it!

YANBU they are awful. Never had water splash up, but I find it impossible not to accidentally touch the blades. Urgh.

I've not liked them since I saw a sign indicating not to put your todger in

that's so funny! I wish I had one, just to try in now!

OP, where on earth are you putting your face that means it gets splashed? Are you very short?

I think they are great, though my fingers are quite long and I have to be not careful not to let them touch everyone else's grunge at the bottom!

Yes IN the ladies.

I'm in the Middle East - you sometimes see signs on how to sit on the loo too.

It's a whole other level of crazy.

Whole lot going on there. On a thread about hand driers.

You are right - the major manufacturers of the crappy old type of dryers that don't work are US corporations such as World Dryer Corp.

There are some sizeable US Multinationals that manufacture paper towels.

But sure, let's discredit a technology that works and let them have their markets back.

If you mean the Dyson dryers that you put your hands down into, then I really like them. They are far superior to the standard type of wall mounted dryer.

I am puzzled about the splashing comments. I have never experienced this and have stood alongside others using these dryers and have never witnessed any splashing. What is there to splash??

As to spreading germs: what germs? Surely newly washed hands are clean?

I prefer paper towels much more hygienic than any hand dryer

Recently, I have seen less and less of them, and more of the airblade 2 or whatever it's called. Just as effective but points downwards so you don't have to put your hands in the dirty water trap. Now that's a good hand drier...

This?

I don't feel splashed in the face?

I prefer them to most hand dryers.

I love them but they do seem to collect a bit of dirt down at the bottom. You never touch it though and I've never had any splashing from them. There are also the newer ones that look like a futuristic regular dryer and you put your hands underneath them. Those work brilliantly too.

If I ever win the lottery I'm having a Dyson dryer and a Japanese toilet (with wash and dry function) fitted in every bathroom.

YANBU - I've not had water on my face but it can sometimes go up my sleeve, which I hate. The puddle of water grosses me out too.

Why are they spraying germs about if you've just washed your hands

Anyway, as I tend not to lick the area around a hand drier or touch anything after I've washed and dried my hands, I don't care.

I love them.

My DMum would never let me use the regular hot air dryers as a child; she said they just made the germs breed on your hands. So it's nice to have dryers around I'm 'allowed' to use.

They are brilliant. Never got splashed. My hands are clean when I put them in, little shake over the sink, into the dryer.

I loved watching the odd shapes they made my hands into with elastic skin.
But read a thread on here about GERMS. Put me off because I am easily influenced. Then I looked in the bottom of one and winced - they do need a wipe out . But dry lovely.

I will never see the words World Dryer Corp again without doing a little shudder

Srsly that is creepy

Do we think there's a cabal of us/chinese/what not trying to discredit our plucky homegrown dryers. Hence recent stories in press

It sounds ridic but I bet it's true

I'm going to start ACTIVELY SEEKING drysons instead of wiping my hands in my trousers

www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/handblower.asp

ON my trousers

IN would be disgusting

ON is however fine

Snorts attractively at you wiping your hands in your trousers...

Brilliant. I shall think of you wiping away every time I use one.

Yes and they make the skin on your hands go all wobbly and flappy when drying. Plus they are way too loud.

They are crap in the accessible toilets. In fact they are useless if you are very short or a wheelchair user.

I like Dyson Driers. I've never been splashed. I thought they worked by scraping the water off your hands rather than evaporating it like other driers so they should be energy efficient. I always put my hands in all the way at the beginning then aim to have my fingertips leave just as the air stops (but usually I'm fractionally too slow and the ends of my fingers are wet). In my vision of how they work waving your hands up and down like I see other people doing can't work, the water is pushed off like a squeegee on a window, which wouldn't work if you pushed that up and down . The water must collect at the bottom, but I don't know what happens to it then.

I'm not a fan either OP. I always seem to accidentally touch them

I prefer the ones called 'XLERATOR'. You know the ones? They're very effective.

Now someone will come along and tell me they're American...

Laughing at the American hand dryer taker over conspiracy...I don't use dryers because I hate the noise. I carry antibacterial gel with me and use that in place of nasty public sinks.

I love them. They are much better than the old style which are shit. Some loos put low down ones for children and short people, and disabled loos always have low down driers don't they?

I cannot understand how air blowing downwards can splash water on your face, unless you are lying on the floor

IIRC the most hygienic is actually paper hand towels, though.