Communal toilet - windows open or closed?

[TheLever]

A colleague who opens the building up every morning opens up all the toilet windows wide open, all year round and closes all the doors. In winter, by the time you get to the loo mid morning it is absolutely freezingly unpleasant to take off your bottoms and sit on the very cold loo seat.

The toilet and sink is in one room with one window behind the loo.

When I go in to use the loo I close the window to, not completely shut, but it’s less drafty and wide open. The colleague goes in during the day and opens it wide again.

We have asked colleague not to open the window so wide but they say they don’t like germs or toilet smells so it needs airing out.

who is being unreasonable?

Open yes, not open wide.

One of the benefits of the days I work from home is not having to use a bathroom and toilet shared with work colleagues.

Plenty of fresh air would be my preference. But I would be content with them half open, for sure.

Open. I don't want to smell your stools

keep closing the window

and ask for an extractor fan to be installed

bet she vapes in the loo snd doesn't want to get caught

Extractor fan surely?

The same used to happen where I worked. There was a perfectly good extractor fan which came on when anyone entered the toilet (desperately trying to avoid the phrase “motion detector”) but every day the window would be repeatedly opened wide. Just keep closing it.

Just hover?

I’d rather have a cold fresh toilet than a warm smelly one I’m afraid.

Open. No poo smells or lingering germs.
Fresh air, always!

I’m not sure you can blow germs away by opening a window. Fair point on the smells though.

No lingering germs because you've opened the window? Bloody hell, I wish it was that easy!

Open the window if it smells. Close the window if it's cold and no longer smells.

Glad ours don’t open. Granted you get the smells, but you don’t get the cold bum! Window open slightly in the morning. People in an office need to learn to compromise. She wants the windows wide open all day, you don’t. Can you see what others think and come to a compromise?

You need to get one of these ...

But do be discreet when wadlling off to the loo.
(I put mine on a big blue IKea bag, after filling it up in tbe kitchen from the kettle))

Open, less bad smells and less airborne-virus (cold, flu, covid etc.). Could put a jumper on.

Putting your bum on a public toilet seat yuck

Wide open. I know some people are relaxed enough to take a shit a work, but I really don’t want to smell it.

A jumper won't help a cold arse. I'd just close the window if it was freezing.

How else could you use the toilet at work without putting your bum on it?

What's the thinking behind an open window and 'not liking germs' are they under the impression that the germs will crawl out of the window or are they trying to freeze them to death?

Opening the window so it's fucking freezing is clearly not on. A crack, fine.

I would repeatedly be going in to close it.

The mind boggles...

You can hover and pee all over the toilet seat, which is simply delightful for the next person who wants to use it.

I'm as reluctant as the next person when it comes to communal loos, but some people are fucking barking.

Stop boggling... I forgot to attach the picture!

Re smells, can’t people just open it if they’ve made a smell and when someone else comes in and the smell has gone they close it? It doesn’t need to be open all the time to disperse smells given most people are only doing a wee.