How many of you like those automatic toilets that flush?

I was totally amazed to walk into a very clean very shiny toilet in a trainstation one day. Now trainstations aren't the places readily known for having clean toilets so you can imagine my surprise. It was an "emergency" or I wouldn't even have considered it. It did scare me that it started flushing when I got up but that was only because I hadn't realised it would do that. Apparantly the one I was using also cleaned and sanitized itself. Or so a sign said. The only really stupid thing about the whole experience was that it was just the toilet. There wasn't any washtable to wash my hands!

I too enjoy the fact that i do not have to extend a foot to flush the toilet or use an elbow to push the button on automatic flushers. They are more convient i think health wise. But like you i hate when im on the toilet and it flushes while i am still there, i hunch over the seat so i dont have to sit down and it never tells when im there or not and numerous times it has flushed on me during one pee!! half the time it scares the crap out of me!! LOL but i also hate the fact that because it is so powerful it spits back up and leaves the seat wet. i dont have a probvlme because i dont sit on the seat. but my 6 year old hasnt gathered the concept of hunching yet and even though i taught her to use the seat covers theres not always one there and she sits on the wet seat!!

I hate the automatic flushers. I would much rather lift my foot up and push down on the toilet lever then to have a toilet flush on me when I am not finished. Those automatic flushers terrify my daughter. Some of them are on the wall the sensor and there is no way for her to block them but some of the sensors are right on the spot where the old flushers use to be then you just take toilet paper and drape it over the sensor to keep it from flushing. When its done you just tell her to take it off and stand back and it will flush. Some flush so soon after you stand up that your standing there for a second pulling your pants back and already its flushing. Some are so powerful that you can feel the water spraying on you. That makes me so ill. I've also had the automatic flushers not flush automatically and have to push the little button to get them to flush. I like that better anyway then I can just use a bit of toilet paper to push the button and run out as its flushing.

I really like those automatic flushers then you don't have to touch the disgusting handles on the toliets but when a little kid goes somethime the toliets dont flush I think it does not register their weight and sometimes they will flush when you are not done yet!

I feel the same way as you do. I like them cause I don't have to touch it to flush. I don't like it when it goes off and you are not done. There was a time that a toilet didn't go off and I had to push the little black button to make it flush. LOL. good discussion.

I love the idea of not touching any parts of a public bathroom. If I have to flush, I usually do it with the bottom of my shoe. I never sit on a public toilet seat ... maybe that's why sometimes those automatic ones don't even flush for me. Same thing with the automatic paper towel dispenser. Love the idea, but sometimes I have to wave my hand three times around the whole dispenser before a dispenses a little piece of paper towel. Sometimes when the paper towel dispenses, the bottom of it will touch the sink counter (not good). And, the automatic sink, the water never stays on long enough. But, it's definitely a step in the right direction.

I like them, but I thing that if they had a lid so that they would only close when you close the lid, they would be even better.

an auto flush toilet flushes as I transfer on to it from my wheel chair when bend forward to get my pants down again when I get on it right, when I take off my depend THATS FOUR FLUSHES AND I HAVE NOT PUT ANYTHING IN THE TOILET. THEN I DO WHAT I NEED TOO AND REACH FOR THE TOILET PAPER FLUSH and then 4 to 5 more flushes while I am getting off of the toilet, put on new depend, clothing up transfer back to chair and one more as i go out the door and some flush when the door closes. if you lost count that is 11 FLUSHES just to pea and change a depend. THAT IS 55 GALS OF WATER VERSES THE 8 TO 10 GALS I USE AT HOME IN 3 FLUSHES. MY OLD TOILET ONLY NEED ONE FLUSH WHEN I WAS DONE MY WATER BILL WENT UP 33% JUST BY GOING TO A LOW WATER CONSUMPTION TOILET AND IT CLOGS DAILY. We are wasting more water in this country, then ever.