Bathroom carpet static issues

Can anyone tell me how to stop someone walking on my bathroom carpet from getting charged up? Its fine until you touch them or they touch something earthed. I know its probably due to it being synthetic, after all it can get wet, so you would not want it to rot. Just to clarify it oft course does not happen when you are doing water related things, its mainly when walking in and out when its not in use, or cleaning the carpet with a vacuum. As its the person which gets charged, one cannot say to a guest, Hear talke this

1meg resistor and before you touch anything touch this on the metal item first, now can you. I suppose some kind of humidifier might work. Brian
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Brian Gaff
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You can buy anti-static carpet sprays to sort that problem.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

Simple ... rip it out, who wants a piss-soaked carpet to begin with?

Reply to
Andy Burns

Each to their own; I usually piss in the separate WC, rather than on the bathroom floor.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

Are you implying I have bad aim simply because I am blind then? Very helpful suggestion I must say. Are you volunteering to lay a new floor for free? grin. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

Not at all, the reality is that all men have a coarser nozzle than they imagine ...

Reply to
Andy Burns

But that's why they sell those piss bibs that go around the bog isnt it?

Reply to
Gazz

Or use dilute fabric conditioner.

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

Fit an earthed metal door handle which they have to touch on the way out to discharge themselves.

Owain

Reply to
spuorgelgoog

Or maybe an earthed loo seat and bidet? Does not help with cleaning and all are rather cruel.

The earthing need to be via a resistor. Another strange thing is this. I have swapped my upstairs and downstairs vaccuums, and now nobody gets shocks while cleaning the bathroom, just when they have walked in and out of it and touch something, so it seems to me that some plastic pipes on these cleaners have to be conductive to stop this sort of thing.

Brian

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Brian Gaff

Are they both uprights with powered brushes? Could be different materials for the brushes - one which generates static.

It also make a difference what the person is wearing. Leather shoes and soles for example seem to make static shocks less likely than some of the more common composite types.

We used to have a big problem in a place I worked. The anti-static spray used did work, but had a horrid pong. ;-) Eventually they changed the carpet and the problem went away.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

An earthed loo seat is cruel?

On the topic of vacuum cleaners - some do have anti-static tubes and hoses, especially those intended for fine dusts where a static spark can trigger an explosion.

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

When I was at work as an electronics engineer, a rep came in to demonstrate his electrostatic meter, and asked me to rub my feet on the floor to charge myself up. We were both surprised that this was impossible, as my unusual plastic sole material was identical to the flooring.

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Dave W

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