Bathroom carpet static issues

You can buy anti-static carpet sprays to sort that problem.

Colin Bignell

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

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

Colin Bignell

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

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

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

Or use dilute fabric conditioner.

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

Owain

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

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.

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

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.